Best Chicken

Slice an onion, place in 9x13. Place chicken bottoms on top, and pour duck sauce over the chicken.

Bake for 1½ hours covered, then ½ an hour uncovered at 350°F (175°C).

—Brynie Greisman

* Review It! Restaurant Rave

During the pandemic we couldn’t eat out, but we started treating ourselves once in a while to pizza from a new place called Focaccia, which opened up a few blocks away from us in Flatbush. The owner used to have a more standard-issue pizza store, but here he’s upgraded to a wood-fired brick oven. Now he makes pizza with a bubbly, charred crust and toppings like Kalamata olives, cherry tomatoes, pesto, basil, extravirgin olive oil, and Parmesan cheese. The store isn’t huge, and until the restrictions lift you can’t go in and sit down, but we got addicted to the brick-oven crusts and the toppings!

—Barbara Bensoussan

 FT, HELP ME!!

What’s a great way to move away from serving so much chicken and beef during the week?

We do a fair amount of fish. My favorite way to prepare it is to pan-sear salmon over a medium-high flame until 80 percent cooked and then flip and finish for another minute, served with a huge salad.

My second favorite way is with bottled teriyaki sauce and broiled until the top is almost charred and the middle is medium rare. We also (at my kids’ request) do breakfast for supper usually at least once a week. This means either pancakes or eggs. Each kid likes their eggs a di erent way, but it’s worth it for a smooth supper.

—Michal Frischman

JUST ASKIN’
I can’t eat ________ without ________

I know this sounds crazy, but I can’t eat my morning muffns without cacao nibs! And the same thing with my mandelbread recipe; some people like plain mandelbdread with nothing in it — I won’t eat it without raisins and cacao  nibs. It just doesn’t appeal to me.

—Rorie Weisberg

Ok, Quick: Chocolate or vanilla?

Definitely chocolate!

—Chavi Feldman

HERE’S A HALACHAH

ANSWERED BY RABBI DONIEL NEUSTADT

Question: Can drinking glasses be used interchangeably for milchig and fleishig?
Discussion: Technically, drinking glasses can be used interchangeably for milchig and fleishig. This is because drinking glasses are generally used only with cold beverages, which means that the drinking glass doesn’t really become milchig or fleishig.

In addition, many poskim maintain that glass is a type of material that doesn’t absorb “taste,” even if it were to be used with hot beverages.
In past generations, when poverty was rampant and drinking glasses were expensive, many people used the same glasses for both milchig and fleishig.

Nowadays, when drinking glasses are extremely inexpensive and readily available, the widespread custom has become to use separate glasses for dairy and meat meals. This is strongly recommended.
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(Originally featured in Family Table, Issue 720)