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Passover birthday cake. Not chocolate flour less
My mother makes a pretty good apple cake on Passover. Might take me a few days but if you are interested I could get the recipe.
New Miami Beach info
I hope I'm not being too much of a nudge by bumping this thread. Still looking for what's available for Saturday lunch.
Do mini bottles of wine exist?
We have a good selection at Hungarian Kosher which truthfully I haven't looked for the minis there yet. I was just wondering what was out there.
Do mini bottles of wine exist?
Which brand was it? I am in Chicago so what's available out east may not be available here- but I'm still curious what's out there.
New Miami Beach info
Thank you for your help. I still need help with what is available on Saturday.
Do mini bottles of wine exist?
Hi,
I remember that they used to have mini bottles of wine (187mL size) available when I was younger, but maybe they were only available in Israel at the time. Anyone see them around?
New Miami Beach info
I know there's a lot of Miami posts. Just looking for current information for when I'll be traveling in March. I'll post my questions here as I do my research.
1. Has anyone tried the new House of Dog restaurant? Looks good! What did it take the place of?
2. For Friday night I think I'm going to eat at Rare Steakhouse, but is anything open for Saturday other than Tower on the Bay (formerly Tower 41)?
3. Anywhere new to try out? I know it's not new but Thai Treat is getting a visit - we love that place. We haven't gone over the restaurants on Aventura yet so we may venture out there as well.
Thanks.
kosher street food- Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (esp. Tel Aviv)
The closest I think you can get in both places is to just walk around Shuk HaCarmel in Tel Aviv and Machane Yehuda in Jerusalem. Lately Machane Yehuda has started to have more of an upscale and cleaned up feel to it. Had lots of fun in both when I was there after Passover.
Silver Spring, Bethesda and vicinity
Sorry if I'm hijacking your thread...but the same goes for me. Hopefully going in two weeks.
Kosher Cruising in General and Norwegian Cruise Line specifically
The first cruise line to get something better than Weberman's will really benefit. Wish it would happen sooner rather than later. I love cruising!
Kosher Cruising in General and Norwegian Cruise Line specifically
It was in Miami and they don't exist anymore.
Kosher Cruising in General and Norwegian Cruise Line specifically
What was then Sam's Deli. I don't know if the restaurant that took its place have the same owners or not.
Looking for another side dish/app
Matbucha, Moroccan eggplant, babaganoush, stuffed grape leaves/peppers/onion/eggplant/zucchini
Chicago Pizza Shops
Main Pizza combined with Chalavi. The best of the bunch is EJ's. All are still nothing compared to real deep dish pizza :( There are few things I crave since keeping entirely kosher and deep dish is one of them.
Best meal ever
To procrastinate studying, I've decided to start a thread on your best meal ever. Mine was this past spring- the tasting menu at Roberg in Israel. http://www.roberg.co.il/ . The location is right on top of the Kinneret with amazing views (picture below). They have two tv screens playing live views of the kitchen so you can see the chef preparing your courses. It comes with two glasses of wine.
Below is a picture of our first course, filled with multiple salads (including the most amazing liver mousse with candied onions), eggplant with lamb kefka, candied eggplant, and red pepper bread).
The soup course had an orange soup and a leek soup, both amazingly smooth with complex flavors.
Fish course was a whitefish fried with a sweet type sauce drizzled with a wasabi sorbet.
Then had a lemon sorbet cleanser.
Next were five different proteins in succession, 3 different types of chicken entrees, with two beef entrees, one being steak.
The dessert is pictured below, including a chocolate cake and a coconut gel.
We were beyond stuffed and thoroughly enjoyed this meal- highly recommended to anyone going up north in Israel!
Best Vacation Locale?
In late March I spent eight days divided between Rome, Florence, and Venice. Rome's food was great. I set out to try to eat authentic Italian, and I had gnocchi, risotto, fried Jerusalem artichokes, and tiramasu- all to die for. I also stayed at the Home in Rome, one of the kosher bed and breakfasts. So easy to get around in Rome with lots of food options. :)
Kosher Cruising in General and Norwegian Cruise Line specifically
Check out my posts on this thread:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/585422
We've done two cruises now with Carnival, getting food shipped from a kosher restaurant to the boat. A tiny bit more cost, nowhere near the cost of taking an entirely kosher cruise, but entirely worth it. If you have questions let me know.
That post was after our first cruise. We did it a second time. Ate ribs :)
Heavenly cheesecake for Shavous
Eli's Cheesecake ships.
https://www.elicheesecake.com/shop/default.aspx
If you go to their factory store on Forest Preserve Drive in Chicago they have "sweet imperfections" where they sell the imperfect cheesecakes for cheap. They also have a good farmer's market on Thursdays.
1st time Israel trip--looking for recommendations
It's a good thing they weren't around on Emek the previous times I was in Israel as it is walking distance from several of my family members. That would have been very dangerous.
1st time Israel trip--looking for recommendations
Stop by Marzipan in the Machane Yehudah shuk for rogallach. Makes me drool thinking about them.
1st time Israel trip--looking for recommendations
I'm going back to Israel in April and am looking this time for some off the wall type places or types of food that I can't eat in Chicago (Thai, Ethiopian maybe, fun things). However, there are some places that I like that aren't so off the wall which are really nice. In Tiberias there's an asian restaurant called Pagoda that overlooks the Kinneret and is a nice place to sit and eat. My favorite falafel place is in Afula and unless you are driving through there on your way back from up north you won't get to it. T'mol Shilshom in Jerusalem also has a nice dining environment. Jerusalem has a lot of good steakhouses and Argentinian type places where the meat is free flowing if you like that kind of thing.
Sunny isles/North Miami Beach\Aventura
Wow! I spent two vacations in Miami beach and really grew to love the food there. I really liked Sam's Deli (they were the ones that we purchased food from that got shipped to our cruise)- are the owners of Pistachio Gourmet Grill the same as the owners from Sam's? I also really liked Mr. Chopstick- rivaled Tein Li Chow in Chicago in terms of it's Chinese food and had some of my favorite sushi anywhere. Sad to see both of them go. Why so many changes at once? It seemed like the restaurants were full and stable when we were there last in February 2010.
Kosher lunch in Chicago/butchers in Cleveland
The best butcher is Romanian. Great meats and salamis.
cruise on Shabbat - Kosher food
Shabbat warm up is your individual choice depending on how you practice. They are warming up the food for you.
cruise on Shabbat - Kosher food
See these links...In short what we did twice with carnival is have a restaurant ship our double wrapped food to the boat because we find the frozen Weberman's meals entirely unedible. Others I guess have eaten them without a problem.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/585422?tag=post-content-5072846;post_5072846_content
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/656031?tag=boards;topic-656031
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/481587?tag=search_results;results_list
As for the card keys we spoke to our head room steward and to the guest services desk, they knew to open the doors for us and that we weren't able to use our key cards.
We brought the allotted 1 bottle of wine per person, and kept it in our mini-fridge with all of the drinks in there removed. Check NCL's alcohol policy, not all lines let you bring your own wine.
Top Choices in Miami
We've gotten Pad Thai, Pad Kee Mau, and Pad Woon Sen. They were good. I don't know about the stirring in peanut butter thing. We've also gotten sushi from there that we enjoyed but I can't remember which roll it was. I haven't been back there since they added the Indian menu.
Top Choices in Miami
My favorites other than 17 are Thai Treat since I can't get restaurant thai food where I'm from and Rare Steakhouse.
grape juice/ wine on cruise
Just did a bit of a search on ncl's website. Apparently you aren't allowed to bring wine onboard with you. That's a bit of a shame- when my husband and I went on carnival we were allowed a bottle of wine per person and took advantage of that :)
If you go to their bon voyage section
http://www2.ncl.com/freestyle-cruise/bon-voyage-gifts
and download their wine list they have a manischevitz white or red available for purchase. Ick.
