jewish cooking

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Quinoa is known in many Ashkenazic Jewish households for one reason: Pesach. The healthy, sort-of-grain plant is actually a seed, and it is neither chametz (leavened) nor kitniyot (grains and legumes – including rice, peas and beans), meaning they can be used on the food-challenged holiday (according to most rabbis).

I have a secret to tell you: I’m a foreigner. Now, don’t call immigration just yet, I’m also a US citizen, but I was born in London.

I’m on a soup kick lately - from butternut squash to mushroom barley, and now potato leek. I can’t help it – just five minutes outdoors lately and I’m begging to wrap my hands around a steaming bowl of soup – if only to thaw them.

Luckily this potato leek soup serves an even better purpose than finger defrosting – it will heat you from the inside out as it fills you up.