Menu du jour matzo ball : 14 Recipes


  • Recipe Matzo Ball Soup
    Matzo Ball Soup
    This week is Passover.  A holiday commemorating the freeing of the Hebrew slaves in ancient Egypt.  Those that observe will not eat anything with any type of grain or any sort of leavening agent in it.  The most common food[...]
  • Recipe Matzo Ball Soup
    Matzo Ball Soup
    Last November, we went to NYC for a few days and I had an awesome bowl of matzo ball soup at the Manhattan Diner , which was across the street from our hotel.  I’m not normally the biggest fan of chicken soup, but it came free with my[...]
  • Recipe Matzo Ball Soup with Chicken
    Matzo Ball Soup with Chicken
    Never in my life had I had Matzo Ball Soup until the other night. Boy, I've been missing out! If you didn't know, matzo ball soup is made up entirely of matzo, a dry cracker, plus thankfully some other tasty (and wet) ingredients. I say[...]
  • Recipe MATZO BALL SOUP & AMARANTH SALAD
    MATZO BALL SOUP & AMARANTH SALAD
    JEWISH COOKING Jewish cooking shows the influence of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Spanish, German and Eastern European style of cooking. One ingredient mainly you will see in many of recipes are matzah meal. Matzo meal (also spelled[...]
  • Recipe Sunday Suppers, Monday Evening Edition:  Matzo Ball Soup
    Sunday Suppers, Monday Evening Edition: Matzo Ball Soup
    We bought a happy turkey for Thanksgiving, and because he was happy and pecked around the base of trees and watched the sunrise and WhatNot, he was also Rather Expensive.  So, to maximize Turkey Goodness and get every centavo’s worth out of[...]
  • Recipe Vegan Lemongrass, Ginger and Coriander Infused Matzo Ball Soup
    Vegan Lemongrass, Ginger and Coriander Infused Matzo Ball Soup
    Passover tends to be a less than thrilling holiday for the Vegan Jew. I suppose I wouldn't really use the adjective "thrilling" to describe any Shagrin family religious-oriented gathering. Well, maybe at my Bat Mitzvah when my Grandma and[...]
  • Recipe { cooking experiments: Passover } A Catholic Latina and the Matzo ball soup experiment
    { cooking experiments: Passover } A Catholic Latina and the Matzo ball soup experiment
    So not Mom's chicken and dumplings but not too bad either. To finish off the soups I made for the newspaper, I combined the Moroccan Chicken Passover soup with the Matzo ball soup to make my own version of "chicken and dumplings."[...]
  • Recipe How to Make Matzo Ball Soup and How to Keep Tradition Alive
    How to Make Matzo Ball Soup and How to Keep Tradition Alive
    "Mom! Why are we doing Passover again this year? Do we have to? It's so boring. Can't we skip it? Why do we even do it?" Her whiny complaints were delivered at staccato speed, like the dangerous bullets of a machine gun. Faced with such a[...]
  • Recipe Un-Chicken Matzah Ball Soup
    Un-Chicken Matzah Ball Soup
    I was so excited about preparing for our Passover Seder, that I didn’t have time to take any pictures between all the cooking, cleaning, and furniture rearranging. Everything came out really tasty and my guests were very content. So, I will[...]
  • Recipe *Cough Cough*
    *Cough Cough*
    Whelp. I?m sick. Which means that my culinary excursion has come to a screeching halt. Darn me for not making a huge batch of chicken noodle soup when I was feeling fine! So I am going for the next best thing (honestly probably the better[...]