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Category: Ima’s Recipes

Posted on:February 7, 2019February 7, 2019Ima's Recipes

We Travel, Some Of Us Forever: Ima’s Kraut (‘n’) Lokshn

It’s a Thursday evening, I’m a teenager and I swoosh the door open to a welcoming, albeit potent, whiff of golden onions sizzling in canola oil. If you’d like to tell me there’s a better smell than sautéed onions, I would have to not-so-politely inform you that you’re in fact very wrong. Would you like […]

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Posted on:January 14, 2019Ima's Recipes

Admitting Failure: Ima’s String Bean Soup

I was honest with you all at the start of this whole thing, right? Let’s see, I confessed that I am not a chef? Check. That my experience of food is one that’s about emotion and passion? Check. My knowledge of food is all grassroots and most of it is based on an ad hoc […]

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Posted on:December 28, 2018December 28, 2018Ima's Recipes

Fridays At Ima’s: Kokosh Cake

On Fridays, for Shabbat, Ima baked Kokosh, a Hungarian rolled dough cake that melts in your mouth as the chocolate bursts through the buttery dough. You could smell the melting cocoa and sugar as far as the recreation center at the end of our Canarsi neighborhood. Neighbors would stop on the sidewalk and take it […]

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Posted on:December 13, 2018December 13, 2018Ima's Recipes

How Do You Spell Chanukah: My Ima’s Vegetable Cutlets

This post is a little late on the draw, so let’s rewind and pretend that I didn’t procrastinate and we’re still in the festival of lights. Latkes is the first food that pops into people’s heads when they think “Chanukah.” Jewish or not, the fried potato pancakes with their fluffy center and crispy outside are […]

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