Author: Jennifer

Main Course, Meat, Recipes

Mexican Zucchini Lasagna

If you’re like me, you’re always looking for a quick, healthy and delicious dinner to get on the table. And if you’re like me, you’re also always looking for new ways to sneak vegetables into your family meals without hearing too much complaining. Well, I’m […]

Baking, Desserts, Recipes

Almond-Lemon Cake With Glazed Strawberries

We’re one day into the Passover holiday and, if you’re like my family, you’re already tired of Matzo everything. Especially, I’m tired of Matzo cake recipes. Layered with cream in between, soaked in all kinds of liquor and crumbled up in parfaits. Yes, there are […]

Recipes, Salads

Personal Chef Chicken Salad

I always thought that, if I had a personal chef named Wolfgang Puck (a girl can dream), I would ask for his Chinois chicken salad every day for lunch. After all, this was the salad that introduced us to what we now erroneously refer to […]

Baking, Desserts, Recipes

Mini Chocolate Basque Cheesecake

Cheesecake is a family tradition around here. Especially at Thanksgiving when my daughters (from the time that they were little) and I would always bake some sort of cheesecake to add to our dessert table. Needless to say, I have made many varieties of this […]

Desserts, Recipes

Manischewitz Truffle Flight

Anyone who has/had a Jewish grandmother (aka Bubby) knows how much they adore Manischewitz. Mine used to love it so much that she actually carried a bottle of it in her purse to various restaurants just because, as you can imagine, this was not a […]

Desserts, Drinks, Recipes

Dulce De Leche Macchiato Martini

Venti caramel macchiato, skim milk, extra hot, no foam, with whip. That’s my husband’s drink of choice (eye roll). Mine on the other hand is a nice cold glass of Sauvignon Blanc. See the problem? I have to admit that I do enjoy an occasional […]

Appetizers, Breakfast, Main Course, Recipes

Smoked Salmon Napoleon

I love napoleon. No, not the general/emperor of France. Although I do have a thing for short, dark, handsome, regal looking French men (don’t judge!). The napoleon that I’m referring to is the sweet gorgeous creation of thin layers of dough intertwined with dreamy, creamy […]

Main Course, Meat, Recipes

Cuban Roasted Pork (Lechon Asado)

At this point it seems as though most cooks have a recipe that became their favorite dish to make during the pandemic. I am no exception. Exactly three years ago this week, my husband abandoned his office and began working from his new home office […]