by Levana Kirschenbaum
I wouldn’t presume to wax nutritionist–there are many qualified people for that. Rather, since a whole lifetime of cooking and eating has somehow kept me and all mine healthy and trim, G-d bless, I decided I must be doing something right, and I would like to share some of my practices with you.
1. […]

by Levana Kirschenbaum
Italian for “pick-me-up,” probably because it puts together three of our favorite intense robust flavors: rum, chocolate and coffee (please don’t try to substitute any of them!), this dessert is so fabulous that I never bother to make the original dairy […]

by Levana Kirschenbaum
Ingredients:
5 pounds tomatoes (7-8 large, or 20 plum tomatoes), split across
3 heads garlic, points sliced off, leaving the cloves exposed
4 medium purple onions, peeled and split across
3 red peppers, halved and seeded
1/4 cup olive oil
coarse sea salt to taste
10 cups water (2 1/2 quarts)
1/4 cup olive oil
1 cup dry white wine (not cooking […]

by Levana Kirschenbaum
Ingredients:
8 servings of chicken, 16 pieces total: legs, thighs, cutlets
1 large onion, chopped
4 large cloves garlic, chopped
3 red bell peppers, cut in thin strips
3 large tomatoes, seeded and diced
1 cup dry white wine
Good pinch saffron
5 bay leaves
¼ cup basil leaves, packed
Freshly ground pepper to taste
Directions:
1. Sauté the chicken on all sides for […]

by Levana Kirschenbaum
I was never overweight, but for about five years, I lugged around a pesky 10 pounds, I couldn’t shake off. Ten unwanted pounds was too much to look my best, but too little to do anything radical about it. So I decided to do the equivalent of dropping the daily penny in […]