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Honey. Apples. Fresh, sweet challah bread. There’s a lot to like about many of the foods associated with the Jewish high holy days. Send us your favorite traditional (or updated) Jewish recipes for the Recipe Box of Sept. 20.
Use the comment link below to post recipes. You might just win a cookbook for your efforts. Please include your name, address, phone number and number of servings.
Remember rice recipes for Sept. 13. And it’s not too early to think about apple recipes for Sept. 27.
(Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
We asked readers of the Recipe Box blog to identify the kitchen item pictured. Here are some of the guesses:
‘‘Bottle opener.’’
‘‘A slicer for cheese.’’
‘‘A towel hanger?’’
This one proved tricky. Just a couple of readers correctly guessed that it is a pasta measure. Made by Fox Run, it sells for $3.99 at Bed, Bath & Beyond. This week’s randomly selected winner is Sarah.
Check out the Recipe Box (http:
/blog.timesunion.com/recipebox) on Monday for another item. Take a guess at its purpose, and you could win the item. You do not have to guess correctly to win.
(Cindy Schultz/Times Union)
Can you figure out what this kitchen item is used for? Use the comment link below to take a guess, and you’ll be entered into a random drawing to win the item. You don’t have to guess correctly to win.
We’ll publish the most creative guesses in our Thursday food section.
We won’t reveal any of the guesses Thursday so someone who does guess correctly won’t be giving it away. Please only submit one guess.
By Eileen Fischer
Cool. Rich. Delightfully delicious. A dish of this creamy, frozen concoction is a perfect foil to the steamy summer we’ve been having.
And, no, it’s not a serving of premium ice cream. We’re talking about ice cream’s second cousin — frozen yogurt — for this month’s Chef-Tested. For health-conscious people, frozen yogurt can be a good substitute for ice cream because most of them have no fat, fewer calories (about 90 per 1/2 cup serving) than ice cream and have all sorts of imaginative flavors.
This month’s expert also is a fan of frozen yogurt. Chef Gary Costa, culinary arts program manager and an instructor at the Lincoln Culinary Institute in Shelton, Conn., for 13 years, said, “I think it tastes better than ice cream. And if you want to eat healthy, I’d choose a good frozen yogurt instead of ice cream.”
So, what makes a good frozen yogurt? While we automatically judge ice cream by how rich and creamy it is, the standard for frozen yogurt is the same. Ice cream, said Costa, gets its body by whipping air into it, but, “yogurt gives (frozen yogurt) its richness.”
Chef-tested is a feature in which food professionals blind taste-test several brands commonly available at the supermarket and determine the best. For this piece, we scoured the frozen food section of several supermarkets to come up with six brands of vanilla frozen yogurt to try.
People love rice in all its varieties — white, brown, short grain, long grain, basmati, jasmine, risotto and all the rest. According to Wikipedia, rice provides ‘‘more than one fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by the human species.’’ Send us your favorite recipes using rice for the Recipe Box of Sept. 13.
You can post recipes using the comment link below. You might just win a cookbook for your efforts.
Please include your name, address, phone number and number of servings. (And please spell out measurements: teaspoon, tablespoon, cups, etc. It’s our style.)
Remember easy lunchbox recipes for Sept. 6. And, with the Jewish high holidays approaching, it’s not too early to think about traditional Jewish recipes
Photo courtesy yumasia.blogspot.com
for Sept. 20.
(Cindy Schultz/Times Union)
We asked readers of the Recipe Box blog to identify the kitchen item pictured. Here are some of the guesses:
‘‘Some kind of press.’’
‘‘Lids for a mason jar.’’
‘‘Ravioli dumpling maker?’’
As many of you correctly guessed, it is a Can Pump and Pour, designed to keep the fizz in opened soft drink cans. It sells for $5.95 at Bed Bath & Beyond and other retailers. This week’s randomly selected winner is Elaine.
Check out the Recipe Box (http: blog.timesunion.com/recipebox) on Monday for another item. Take a guess at its purpose, and you could win the item. You do not have to guess correctly to win.
(mommygaga.com photo)
Sad to say, the long days of summer will soon give way to the start of another school year. For parents who want to be sure their child gets a nutritionally sound midday meal, that means a whole lot of lunch box packing. Send us your favorite healthy lunchbox ideas (and if they happen to be suitable for grownups who bring a meal to work, that’s just fine) for the Recipe Box of Sept. 6.
Post recipes using the comment link below. You might just win a cookbook for your efforts.
Please include your name, address, phone number and number of servings. (And please spell out measurements: teaspoon, tablespoon, cups, etc. It’s our style.) Remember eggplant recipes for Aug. 30. And it’s not too early to think about rice recipes for Sept. 13.
Cindy Schultz/Times Union
Can you figure out what this item is used for? Guess what it is and you’ll be entered into a random drawing to win the item.
You don’t have to guess correctly. We’ll publish the most creative guesses in our Thursday food section.
We won’t reveal any of the guesses until Thursday so someone who does guess correctly won’t be giving it away. Please only submit one guess.
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