Minka Cooks

Homemade WW cake meal (left) and WW matzo meal (right) Why Bother? Years ago, I needed just a little more matzo meal for a brownie rec...

Chocolate cake without chips For the last three Passovers, I've adapted a chocolate cake recipe. This year's is the best...

Arg! I wrote it, saved it, shredded my notes. Saved it to post another day....and now it's gone...ARG!!! Blogger I hate you!

I love shmura matzos -- especially whole wheat shmura matzos. This week, I found this great video that shows how shmura mat...

Every year, I revise my recipe for Passover chocolate cake. Here's the link to the 2013 edition -- the best ever! It's even better...

They are loaded! (See second photo.) This recipe fit into 12 muffin cups -- but just barely. I happened to have walnut oil that I wanted to...

This dish is versatile. In truth: because it tastes so good, I've found many ways to eat it. It can be served hot, warm, or chilled. It...

For the story behind this recipe and a discussion of the ingredients, see the single recipe . This is a dairy recipe. If you substitute ...

Click here  for double recipe. These brownies make a delicious Passover treat.  I've been making some variation on this recipe for yea...

Note, if you do not like coconut, you may not care for this recipe. On the other hand, if you love coconut but are not supposed to eat it (b...

This recipe is fool-proof. No hassles. No lumps. Every time. Who ever said polenta was tricky?

Whole Wheat Maple Walnut Muffins with Currants I've been using this recipe since the 1970s. It's so versatile it could have 100 d...

Decades ago, my friend Wendy gave me her recipe for white rice, which was given to her by a native Hawaiian who worked in her parents' h...

In my grocery store, fresh cranberries are only available in the fall, so this is a true seasonal recipe -- a rarity in this day and age! ...

This recipe is right off the box for Wolf's Kasha. It's a key ingredient for Kasha Varnitchkes .

I took a basic biscotti recipe and made it very lemony.

The first time I made this reicpe, the country was celebrating President Obama's inauguration.