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Sharing Food Is Love!
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It doesn’t take much: a simple pizza between friends, a cup of warm coffee or tea at a neighbor’s house, a shared homemade cookie for someone who never gets one. These bring people together and give the message that say, “I care about you.” Food is the magical ingredient that creates memories, bonds families together, makes holidays special, offers opportunities to form new friendships.
The simple act of cooking food feeds the soul, strengthens the body, and inspires thoughtful kindness. It’s a sunshine gift from one’s heart.
Today, our program will talk about how sharing food brings a special love and bonding. You will meet Kim Kushner, the author of The Modern Table, who shares her ideas and recipes, leaving room for each of us to shine, impress, and enjoy togetherness.
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Easy Entertaining Recipes
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Strawberry Hazelnut Celebration Cake
It’s festive, full of hazelnut flavor, and easy-to-make
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About the Recipe: June is the perfect month to find fresh juicy strawberries, which add a “welcome to summer” touch to this hazelnut cake. It’s easy to mix up, bake, fill, and sprinkle with crunchy nuts. If you love Nutella, this will be one of your favorite desserts. For an extra celebration touch, lightly garnish with a few colorful sprinkles. Enjoy!
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Baked Cod with Fresh Herb Streusel & Garden-Fresh Tomato Sauce
The quick trick is to prepare the streusel and tomato sauce ahead of time
About the Recipe: Happiness is the warm summer sunshine, helping to grow those fresh herbs and juicy tomatoes that make our suppers delicious. This recipe combines summer’s best. It’s easy to make because the sauce as well as the herb streusel can be prepared ahead of time. The fish cooks in about 12 minutes and is served on the warm tomato sauce. Easy and delicious – What a great combination!
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Mashed Potatoes with Onion Crème
Skip the heavy cream and butter; add fantastic onion flavor to mashed potatoes
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About the Recipe: If you want to serve the most delicious, mashed potatoes, this is the recipe to use. Forget about the heavy cream and rich butter. You won’t need them. The secret is to prepare caramelized onions and puree them into a velvet smooth cream. Then just mash them into the potatoes and season to taste. These mashed potatoes are full of flavor and healthy too.
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Author Kim Kushner
Kim Kushner’s book, The Modern Table Shares Ideas about: Informal and formal get-togethers and celebrations
Photo Courtesy – Kim Kushner
The Modern Table, by acclaimed chef and author Kim Kushner, presents kosher cuisine in a fresh, contemporary light. Jam-packed with 75 simple and delicious recipes, entertaining ideas, and menu inspirations, this beautiful cookbook is designed to make every get-together memorable.
It includes quick and healthy dishes for busy lifestyles, such as Honeydew with Sea Salt and Lime-Poppy Seed Drizzle, or Leek and Butternut Squash Soup. Fresh, vibrant salads like Grilled Peaches, Burrata, and Mint highlight seasonal offerings, while a delectable Slow-Cooked Lollipop Short Ribs rivals your favorite restaurant dishes. Recipes such as Spicy Green Tahini, Za’atar Cauliflower Steaks, and The Orange Blossom Chiffon Cake with Rose Petals celebrate Kim’s Moroccan and Ashkenazi-Canadian heritage.
The Modern Table is to be released for sale on June 28th2022 and to be sold through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other fine bookstores throughout the USA.
Photo Courtesy – Kim Kushner
Kim Kushner, a culinary educator and best-selling cookbook author, shares Kosher recipes for everyday gathering. She wrote I Heart Kosher, The New Kosher, and The Modern Menu. Raised in Montreal, Canada, she learned about Moroccan cooking techniques from her mother and the family summers she spent in Israel. She graduated from the Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan, worked as a private chef, and developed recipes for magazines including Food and Wine and Chile Pepper. Kim has appeared on the Today Show and has been featured in The International New York Times, The Huffington Post, Saveur, The Chicago Tribune and is recognized as a leader in redefining kosher cuisine
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Simple and Delicious Entertaining Recipes
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Smoked Salmon with Shallot, Dill, and Lemon
This New York styled thin sliced, smoked salmon is perfect for bagels
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About the Recipe: This is Kim Kushner’s favorite recipe for serving smoked salmon. She loves it super-thinly sliced. Kim serves it with capers, sliced tomatoes, and radishes along with fresh NY bagels.
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Kale and Chickpea Salad with Crunchy Curry Dressing
Take kale salad to a new level with this tasty curry dressing
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About the Recipe: This salad couldn’t be easier to make. Combine the dressing ingredients and pour over the chickpeas and cucumbers to marinade. For serving, combine with the sliced fresh kale and some roasted sunflower seeds. The curry dressing softens and seasons the kale
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Quick Preserved Lemon
In Moroccan kitchens, preserved lemons are used in many traditional dishes
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About the Recipe: Moroccan preserved lemons have a unique pickled taste and are used in many traditional dishes from tagines to salads. They have a unique pickled taste. They can be purchased on-line, but this recipe makes it very easy to prepare your own preserved lemons.
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Garlic Confit “One Pot” Chicken
Chicken and potato dinner, flavored with fresh lime and lemon slices
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About the Recipe: The moist chicken is flavored generously with garlic confit, lime, and lemon flavors, and served with golden baked potatoes. It’s a one-pot meal that requires only a fresh garden salad as a side. To save time, the garlic confit can be prepared ahead of time and stored covered with oil in a glass jar. Store in the refrigerator and bring to room temperature before using in the recipe.
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Spiced Citrus with Pistachio Dust
One of the simplest refreshing desserts with an outstanding flavor blend
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About the Recipe: Citrus fruit adds a refreshing juicy taste and delightful fragrance to
desserts. This recipe layers various types of citrus circles that overlap and blend their
distinctive flavors of sweetness. Sprinkling the finished dessert with a little pistachio dust
creates an eye-catching dish and adds a touch of crunch.
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Spicy Kefta with Tender Peas & Pepper
Hearty one-pot vegetarian wonder is a party dish to serve for delicious fun
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About the Recipe: The classic Moroccan recipe, typically made with beef or lamb, is usually served on skewers or meatballs. This recipe adds a spicy flair using hot spicy plant-based “sausages” and serves them on a bed of caramelized onions, colorful peppers, and mushrooms, which are topped with tender peas. Serve with some chunks of crunchy bread or flatbreads. The spices and colorful peppers add a little heat to the dish and a real party-in-your-mouth flavor.
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Spring Lime Green Tahini Dip
Serve with assorted vegetable plant protein snacks
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About the Recipe: If you love the flavor of Tahini, this will become of your favorite recipes. The dip is very mild with a light lime essence and fresh cilantro taste. If you want it spicy, add the jalapeno seeds to the dip. Serve it with crispy, wholesome vegetable snacks or your favorite crudites.
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Za’atar Cauliflower Steaks
Super simple dish with thickly sliced Middle Eastern flavored crispy cauliflower
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About the Recipe: Cauliflower Steaks are thickly sliced cauliflower that are seasoned and cooked in the oven until they are golden brown and crisp. They are generously sprinkled with Za’atar, a Middle Eastern or Mediterranean condiment. The seasoning has a savory earthy flavor and contains herbs such as sumac, thyme, oregano, and sesame seeds.
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Poppy Seed Swirl Citrus Cake
A beautiful poppyseed Bundt cake flavored with orange and lemon
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About the Recipe: Poppyseeds and citrus flavors are a popular flavor pairing for desserts, especially in Eastern Europe countries. Adding a chocolate syrup over the cake, created flowing drizzles down its sides and brought back those happy childhood mix-it-in chocolate memories. The chocolate swirls within the cake add a fancy touch and delightful fudgy flavor.
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Magical Meringue Kisses
Easy and fun recipe for the whole family to make
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About the Recipe: These meringue cookies use only a few ingredients and are very easy to mix up. We think the real magic of this recipe is that the kids can easily have fun making the shapes, colors, and baking them. Of course, the fun is taking pictures of them too. It’s a recipe that brings the whole family together and helps to make memories.
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