Everyone loves Jewish food…

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For me, home-cooked, kosher meals during the Jewish holidays are the best.  Steam floating off the Matzah balls stirred in a savory broth, tender beef brisket cooking slow in the oven.  The smells of sauces and spices all permeating the kitchen. Gefilte fish with a hint of horseradish…well, some foods, at least for me, are tastier than others (my personal favorite being an onion bagel with lox and cream cheese). Coming home for holidays is always a treat, but I also continue to think about ways to make those beloved, classic dishes even more exciting and delicious.

There are some really great resources on the web that provide recipes, information and lovely pictures of both kosher and non-kosher, Jewish food favorites.

The Jew and the Carrot is a food blog dedicated to bringing together Jewish food traditions with current issues such as sustainability, organic eating and food politics.  The site provides comprehensive recipes, information on green resources, blog posts and interviews with kosher chefs and other members of the Jewish community.

Kosher in the Kitch provides quick and easy kosher recipes of all sorts of Jewish treats, both conventional and innovative. The discussion board on the website provides a space where individuals testing out recipes can talk and share ideas and foods with one another.

Sweet Amandine has some of the most beautiful food photographs I have ever seen. This blog is witty and well written, and also full of great, new kosher/non-kosher recipes.

Café Liz Vegetarian or vegan? This blog written by an Israeli lover of cooking, is chock full of original, vegetarian, kosher recipes and options for vegans as well. Her posts also include discussion of local food culture, markets and restaurants in Tel Aviv.

Extra Online Food Fun:

Want to know more about what makes food kosher? Want to know what  stands for on packages of food you own? Visit oukosher.org for more information.

Shamash is the most comprehensive database of kosher restaurants and locations on the web.

Interested in fresh, kosher food being delivered to your door?  Check out http://www.kosher.com/, an online kosher supermarket. The website provides pictures and price information on all kinds of kosher foods.