Baroness Tapuzina https://www.baronesstapuzina.com Food and travel in Israel and abroad Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:03:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.baronesstapuzina.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/LabaneFavicon-54a94092v1_site_icon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Baroness Tapuzina https://www.baronesstapuzina.com 32 32 10746939 Blood Orange Tart with Orange-Almond Crust https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2014/04/23/blood-orange-tart-with-orange-almond-crust-2/ https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2014/04/23/blood-orange-tart-with-orange-almond-crust-2/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:23:58 +0000 https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/?p=2938 When I hear someone say “blood oranges”, I am immediately whisked away to my time in Lugano and my many trips over the border into Italy. They have a perfume like no other and I loved having a tall freshly squeezed glass of the beautiful blood red juice. As I drank the sweet and tangy […]

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]]> https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2014/04/23/blood-orange-tart-with-orange-almond-crust-2/feed/ 2 2938 “Fudgy” Haroset Brownies https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2013/03/31/fudgey-haroset-brownies/ https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2013/03/31/fudgey-haroset-brownies/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:26:42 +0000 https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/?p=2722 It is hard to get a chef to part with a special recipe and when you finally get the recipe out of them, they may leave out key ingredients so that when you try to make it at home, it doesn’t taste like you had at their restaurant. I can understand why they don’t want […]

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]]> https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2013/03/31/fudgey-haroset-brownies/feed/ 2 2722 Chinese for the Holidays – Kung Pao Turkey https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/12/28/chinese-for-the-holidays-kung-pao-turkey/ https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/12/28/chinese-for-the-holidays-kung-pao-turkey/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:15:04 +0000 https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/?p=2894 There is a stereotype that all Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas Eve, well…. my family either ate Chinese at our favourite restaurant or we had Texas barbecued brisket from Ft. Worth, Texas’ famous Cousin’s Bar-B-Q , Greenberg’s smoked turkey from Tyler, Texas and the fixins: homemade mustard coleslaw, Mom’s baked beans, etc.  I can’t […]

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]]> https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/12/28/chinese-for-the-holidays-kung-pao-turkey/feed/ 2 2894 Jiǎozi – Chinese Pot Stickers https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/12/22/jiaozi-chinese-pot-stickers/ https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/12/22/jiaozi-chinese-pot-stickers/#comments Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:36:26 +0000 https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/?p=2877 For those of you who have followed me on this blog, you know that I have had many cooking mentors in my life: my mother, father, both grandmothers, Uncle Alfred, my second mom Alberta, and my third mom Ying. Ying is not just a cook, she is really a chef who understands the science of […]

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]]> https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/12/22/jiaozi-chinese-pot-stickers/feed/ 4 2877 Slow Roasted Short Ribs in Pomegranate Juice https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/09/22/slow-roasted-short-ribs-in-pomegranate-juice/ Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:07:44 +0000 https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/?p=2861 Over the years I have posted a lot of recipes for slow cooking on my blog; this stems from my dream to have an outdoor brick oven for making pizza, bread and clay pots filled with some slow-simmering concoction. Slow cooking takes me back to my childhood when I watched my great-grandmother make all of […]

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]]> 2861 Goat with the Wind Dairy https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/06/30/goat-with-the-wind-dairy/ https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/06/30/goat-with-the-wind-dairy/#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:01:32 +0000 https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/?p=2794 As you drive on the rocky and uneven road down to the Goat with the Wind (Halav im HaRuach) organic dairy, a solar-powered goat farm near the village of Yodfat in the Galilee region, you are taken back in time. I felt like I was in Biblical times, a shepherdess walking to visit my friends […]

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]]> https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/06/30/goat-with-the-wind-dairy/feed/ 3 2794 Spring Meal with Friends https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/05/12/spring-meal-with-friends/ https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/05/12/spring-meal-with-friends/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 17:55:05 +0000 https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/?p=2813 As I started describing in my last blog post, Mr BT and I went to our friends Cassia and Massimo for a festive Yom Ha’atzmaut meal: we brought the lamb and dessert and Massimo made the primo piatto, pasta with sauteed cherry tomatoes and garlic. The cherry tomatoes were sauteed in a lovely extra virgin […]

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]]> https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/05/12/spring-meal-with-friends/feed/ 9 2813 Two Variations of Roasted Spring Lamb with Orange and Herbs https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/05/05/two-variations-of-roasted-spring-lamb-with-orange-and-herbs/ https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/05/05/two-variations-of-roasted-spring-lamb-with-orange-and-herbs/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 15:54:02 +0000 https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/?p=2793 Spring has sprung all over Israel and after a rather sad period in my life, I am basking in the beauty of nature’s bounty. Over the past few weeks, Mr BT and  I have travelled to the north and south of the country visiting dairies, wineries, open markets, flower shows and renewed my spirits and […]

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]]> https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/05/05/two-variations-of-roasted-spring-lamb-with-orange-and-herbs/feed/ 3 2793 Low Cooking Flame https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/03/25/low-cooking-flame/ https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/03/25/low-cooking-flame/#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:08:49 +0000 https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/?p=2744 Losing a loved one is something that no one wishes on themselves or at least hopes that the person one has lost had a very long and fruitful life, but when the loss is a parent whose time on earth could have lasted a little longer, the pain is somehow deeper. My much beloved father […]

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]]> https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/03/25/low-cooking-flame/feed/ 7 2744 Eccles Cakes for Tu Bishvat https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/02/12/eccles-cakes-for-tu-bishvat/ https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/2012/02/12/eccles-cakes-for-tu-bishvat/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:55:16 +0000 https://www.baronesstapuzina.com/?p=2748   I don’t know why, but I have always had a fascination with mincemeat. I don’t even remember the first time I ate this boozy filling in a pie, but I must have been a child and for some strange reason this little girl, who was quite a picky eater, when it came to new […]

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