Recipes Index

Mushroom Barley Soup (Parve)
This Mushroom Barley Soup is a nice change from Chicken Soup for Sukkot or Simchat Torah dinner. It is easy to make, healthy and satiating. All my guests, even the vegetarians and children at the table, enjoyed this parve soup.

Sephardic Barley Soup
This Sephardic Barley Soup recipe comes from my Israeli neighbor's Moroccan grandmother. The coriander adds distinctive flavor to this satiating and easy-to-make soup.

Matzah Balls
Matzah balls or matzo balls, also called knaidlach, are traditionally served in chicken soup during Passover. My kids, however, ask me to serve matzo balls for the Jewish High Holidays and for Friday night Sabbath dinner throughout the winter.

Creamy Vegetable Soup (Parve)
This is my mother's recipe. In other words, ingredient amounts are not exact, but the soup is delicious every time. Use whatever leftover vegetables you have in the house - cauliflower, zucchini, onion, cabbage, pumpkin, sweet potato, carrots, celery and more. Just when the veggies are tender enough for the immersion blender, add coconut milk to make the soup creamy but still parve.

Sweet Potato Red Lentil Soup (Parve)
My English friend Dalia, who is a vegetarian, explained to me how to make her family's favorite soup - Sweet Potato Red Lentil Soup. Dalia doesn’t like spending hours in her kitchen, so I knew it would be a quick and easy recipe. And Dalia only eats healthy food, so I knew the soup would be full of fresh vegetables and high in protein. I didn’t know, though, that the soup would be so delicious that my guests would say “wow” and my kids would ask me to make the "orange soup" again next Shabbat.

Easy Pureed Vegetable Soup (Parve)
I like to put the ingredients on the counter, print out the recipe, and let my kids make this soup by themselves. They are more likely to eat this economical and healthy soup if they have made it themselves.

Blended Vegetable Soup (Parve)
One of my favorite kitchen tools is an immersion blender. The immersion blender makes it possible to easily make delicious and healthy vegetable soup. Just boil vegetables under tender, blend and spice. The soup is also economical because you can use whatever leftover vegetables you have in the house - cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, onion, cabbage, pumpkin, sweet potato, carrots, celery, kohlrabi and more.

Miki's Red Pepper Soup (Pareve)
This vibrant, colorful soup, thickened with potato and sweetened with pears, tastes as good as it looks.

Potato-Lima Soup (Parve)
Yehudis Wallace, of Louisville, Kentucky's Hasidic community, serves this delicious, thick soup before the Yom Kippur fast. It is filling, yet easily digestible, and it is flavorful, yet low in sodium. Yehudis serves the soup with noodles for the pre-fast meal, which really satiates her husband and four sons before the big day!

Pureed Butternut Squash Soup (Pareve)
Butternut squash, a winter squash that is nutritionally rich in complex carbohydrates and beta-carotene, tastes somewhat like sweet potatoes. This Pureed Butternut Squash Soup, contributed by Word of Mouth kosher catering service, is easy to make, delicious to eat and lovely to serve.

Kids' Favorite Potato Soup (Parve)
I imagine this is one of those recipes my kids will ask for when they are older and have their own families. On cold winter days, this Potato Soup has warmed us up inside, turning the chilly house around us into a cozy home.

Cold Tomato Soup Appetizer for Shabbat Lunch (Parve)
This is a really easy, versatile soup that can be served hot or cold. I usually serve this cold for starters for a Shabbat lunch. I don't think I have ever served this soup and not been asked for the recipe!

Kubbeh Soup (Meat)
Kubbeh is a small pocket of dough that is stuffed with ground beef and pine nuts. Kubbeh for soup is usually boiled, whereas Kubbeh served on a platter is fried. Grocery stores in Israel and increasingly in the United States offer frozen packages of Kubbeh that are ready to drop into a vegetable soup. Enjoy this traditional recipe for kosher Kubbeh Soup.

Hungarian Vegetable Soup (Pareve)
This hearty vegetable soup contains beans, peas, potatoes, carrots, and parsnips. Hungarian paprika adds ethnic flavor.

Kosher Simple Corn Soup (Parve)
I love corn and anything made with corn. I have yet to find a corn soup recipe that I didn't like. This kosher-parve corn soup, however, is the one I make most often as it is so easy to make. Why work hard for no reason?

Kosher Simple Pumpkin Soup (Pareve)
I made this Pumpkin Soup together with my son. It was easy to make and delicious to eat. The recipe is kosher and pareve so it can be served with either meat or dairy food.