potatoes

Cookbook authors Ruth Joseph and Simon Round give a tour de Jewish cuisine in their new release Jewish Traditional Home Cooking, just in time for Passover. We're looking forward to rolling out rugelach, wrapping up blintzes and churning out kreplach all year round. But we're especially excited that this year's Passover kugel has a crisp golden brown top and creamy interior. 

Maybe we should just expand the terminology itself. But "cooked whole potato with the skin on" doesn't really flow. So baked potato it is, regardless of whether or not it's actually baked in an oven. That's right, a microwave can yield a baked potato. Here's how you do it.

I really wish I hadn't found out the café a few doors down from the office serves Swedish meatballs. I'm also very glad there's a place within a block that has them, because when it's cold like this, few dishes will warm you up and keep you comfortably full like köttbullar med potatis. Here are 4 variations to keep your meatball game nice and fresh.