December is a month that many families celebrate holidays. These holiday celebrations are often enhanced with a large meal that features traditional Jewish meat recipes. These recipes either are for brisket or other large roasts.
Most traditional Jewish recipes isolate flavor palettes to savory or sweet. However, there are some recipes that feature a mixing of savory and sweet. These sweet and sour recipes utilize vinegar and sugar to enhance the flavor dynamics of a meal, but this is not your only option.
Another way to add dimension to your traditional Jewish meat recipes is to add fresh fruit to your roasting pan. Traditional Jewish fruits like apples and pear work well for most types of roasts. Apples work particularly well for poultry roasts like chicken and turkey.
If you are trying to create a more exotic taste then utilize citrus or exotic fruits. If you are cooking a ham, for example, you can enhance its taste by roasting it with pineapple rings and a little brown sugar. Chicken roasts can also benefit from the flavors of more exotic fruits. You may need to experiment a little before you find fruit and meat combination that appeal to your tastes, but once you find a combination that you like you will be better able to gauge what is going to work for your table and what is not.
Posted in creative cooking | No Comments »
This is the time of year that I get restless. It is the middle of the winter and there isn’t much to do. To prevent myself from getting cabin fever I try to invest my time in something creative. One of my favorite winter activities is entering recipe contests. Recipe contests not only provide you with an outlet for your extra energy, but they can also help you to come up with recipes that your family will love and you have the chance of winning fun and exciting prizes.
When entering a recipe contest it is important that you read the rules and instructions for the contest. Most people who win recipe contests consistently do so because they follow the instructions. About 50 percent of entries to contests are disqualified because the entrant didn’t follow the directions. The directions will tell you what ingredients are allowable, what the goal of the contest is, when you need to enter you recipe by, how to format your entry and what supplemental information you will need to include with your recipe.
When creating a recipe for a recipe contest you will want to stick with dishes that you are familiar with and then “kick it up a notch,” as Emeril would say. For example, take a basic peanut butter cookie recipe and enrich it with traditional Jewish ingredients like apples and honey. The key is to create something that has both the flavors and textures that are expected of the type of dish you are creating and then to add a twist for a delicious surprise.
There are hundreds of Jewish recipes contests that you can enter throughout the year. Some offer cookbooks and gift certificates as the prizes, while others offer cash prizes. To get your recipe contest career off the ground start experimenting with your favorite parve Jewish recipes and traditional family recipes.
Posted in creative cooking | No Comments »
