The Kitchen Guru

  Seasonal Shavuot recipes Shavuot always comes in the strawberry, asparagus, spinach, raspberries, nectarines, watercress, watermelon season, if we're lucky and the sun shines it's a time to invite friends in for a delicious summer lunch in the garden. I hope you try out these recipes celebrating Shavuot, the summer, and seasonal vegetables. I've always loved Shavuot, because I'm a summer person, and it reminds me that my birthday is round the corner. In our family the person whose birthday it is chooses the menu for that night, from quite an early age I chose salmon cooked with dill, jersey royal potatoes, asparagus, and something with strawberries and raspberries. Which makes an ideal base for Shavuot meal. However here are three slightly different ideas using seasonal vegetables. Spinach soup -serves 4, ( this is a dairy soup, however if you're dairy intolerant or you have dairy intolerant guests coming you can substitute the cream for plant cream.) One large ba

  Lag B’ Omer Barbeque. Lag ‘B’Omer celebrate the 33rd day of counting of the Omer it's the one day between Passover and Shavuot where weddings happen people can have haircuts music is played, and it's traditional to have barbecues! So hopefully the weather will hold, and you can use these BBQ recipes for the rest for the festival, If not store them away for the summer. Homemade BBQ sauce. Barbecue sauce is so simple to make I'm not quite sure why I ever bought it in the past. Ingredients 1 cup of tomato ketchup 1 cup of apple cider vinegar one tablespoon of mustard I use Dijon. one tablespoon of brown sugar half a tablespoon of honey one teaspoon of sea salt one teaspoon ground black pepper one teaspoon of smoked paprika half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper  half is to be teaspoon of chilli flakes.   Method Place all your ingredients in a sealable fridge  dish  or a large glass jar  mix them all till smooth and store in the fridge for up to a month to use when needed. This sa

  Yom Haatzmaut ( Israeli Independence Day) falls this year from sundown on Monday the 13 of May 2024 and ends sundown on Tuesday the 14th of May 2024. In Israel the smell of barbecues abounds from  people's gardens, in the countryside or on the beach. The traffic gets quite congested as people are moving around to visit family and friends and go for hikes or relax by the sea I always got into the habit with my friend Hannah, of getting up really early and going wherever we wanted to go with her children, before we spent the day in a traffic jam! If we were going to the beach, we would arrived there at 5:00 AM and have breakfast an early swim and return against the traffic by lunchtime to barbecue On her patio! We would do the same if we were going for a walk in the countryside or whatever activities we had chosen to mark the day. Here in the UK, there is no guarantee that we will have good enough weather for a BBQ therefore I've decided to give you some recipes for homemade f