Month: February 2018

Maximum impact for minimum effort is something every busy home cook can get behind. For Ali Rosen, who is a mother, full-time journalist, and host of the show “Potluck With Ali Rosen,” her modus operandi is making impressive-looking dishes with little effort. By her own admission, she is somewhat embarrassing (to her husband, at least), in that she’ll take compliments ...

Shaved Carrots Salad This salad is so different it will make you wonder why you don’t make more salads without lettuce—because who needs it? This salad has texture and flavor galore, not to mention so many colors that it will be the centerpiece of any table and have everyone guessing until they bite into it. It’s also one of the ...

Ginger Beef Any time you serve meat at room temperature, you need a sauce that makes people forget they could’ve eaten something right out of the oven. With only a few major ingredients, this sauce gets the job done. You can use this sauce on a lot of different proteins (I’ve yet to find something that doesn’t go with it), ...

Cherry Tomato Tart Sometimes you just want to bring the prettiest dish to the party. This tart will certainly succeed on that front, and the secret is that it’s not that much work. If you get good-quality cherry tomatoes, this dish pretty much sells itself. Combining the acidity of the tomatoes with the umami of the cooked onions creates a ...

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J.—Her voice sang clearly across the room, warm and sweet. Shabbat is centered around the family, a celebration of bonds between loved ones, a time to cherish each other’s company. The tradition commences with a meal every Friday evening. Each member of the household plays a role. Shannon Sarna, the mother, nourishes the family with sustaining food. Sarna ...

Rosemary Garlic Challah When I first started experimenting with challah varieties, rosemary and garlic was one of the first flavor combinations I tried, a nod to my dual Italian-Jewish heritage. The rosemary and coarse sea salt on top is not only delicious, but the combination produces a strikingly beautiful, but simple, challah. You don’t have to use fresh rosemary—it is ...

Master chocolatier Christophe Toury has seen many Valentine’s Day come and go over the years, and as far as gifts go, though flowers and chocolates are popular, to him the choice is clear. “You must give chocolate … I don’t eat flowers,” he laughed, “but I eat chocolate.” Now the master chocolatier at Voilà Chocolat on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, ...

Why are so many of the people who have risen to the top of our government institutions, those who become the leaders or directors of our alphabet agencies, so imperious, so devious, so malevolent, so lacking in character and so disdainful of the American people? How is it that people of good character no longer want to work for the ...