Month: October 2010

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Indian Special, Sushi November 5, 2010

We have gotten a very positive response from our sushi, and we had a few requests for weeknight sushi, so we’re going to try fresh sushi for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night this week and see how it goes.  You can get sushi delivered or picked up.  We make all kinds – with raw fish, […]

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Parshas Chayei Sarah

Shalom, this week’s parshah describes the second generation of the Jewish people, with the siduch (marriage arangement) of Yitzhak (Issac) and Rivkah (Rebecca).  Last week’s parshah describes the miraculous birth of Yitzhak, and concludes with him offering his life during the Akeidah.  Yitzhak was 37 years old when he allowed his father Avraham (Abraham)  to […]

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Cuban pictures and recipes

We took some pictures of our cuban food (shocking, I know).  I will still need to get the black beans, vegetable paella, and the mojo chicken – but here are some of the exotic roots once they were peeled and cooked. First of all, how cool is it that I was cooking with one of […]

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Gallery

Ok, until we figure out how to do a Gallery – here are some pictures that were supposed to be in posts, but didn’t get posted.  Our hugely popular zucchini weave – this gives you an idea of what it looks like.  Our basteeya (phyllow dough stuffed with meat, onions, and spices) that we did […]

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Asian Market, take 2

I just went to another Asian market today – eagle eye reader – Tzivia R. told me about it.  Ali B. went with me – which was so much fun – first she knew how to get there (a big plus) and second – she knew her stuff about strange fruit (don’t get the durian […]

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Cuban Special for October 29, 2010

We have teamed up with “Centerpieces and More” to see if anyone might be interested in having flowers delivered at the same time as your meal.  If you are interested let me know – they have all kinds of flowers, and you could even get a Cuban theme arrangement. For $15: Appetizer: Fried Plaintains Fish […]

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Parshas Vayeira

Shalom, this is the very first Sweet and Good Torah.  We want to offer some sweet and good words of Torah filled with ruchniyot (spiritual), to go with our delicious food which is the gasmiyut (physical).  It is a great parsha (portion of Torah) for me to begin, because 42 years ago I was born […]

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Adventures in Japanese Kosher Cooking

First, one of our eagle eye readers (Debbie S.) – found a website where there might be kosher kobe beef.  The company is called Stube Ranch, and it says they have some kind of kosher beef.  I’ve left a message and we’ll see.  Perhaps for the next Japanese special we’ll have real Kobe beef!  That would […]