Cooking with Chef Melinda: Yogurt Cake

Cooking with Chef Melinda: Yogurt Cake

Chef Melinda makes Yogurt Cake with her son. By Chef Melinda McNeil French children learn to make this easy cake by using one scoop to measure the ingredients.  Use whatever citrus zest you have on hand, or substitute extracts to change flavor.  Yogurt can easily be...
Cooking with Chef Melinda: Spinach and Feta Matzah Quiche

Cooking with Chef Melinda: Spinach and Feta Matzah Quiche

Serves 6-8 By Chef Melinda McNeil This is an easy entrée or side dish to quickly put together, especially with the help of small hands!  Kids will love to break apart the matzah and arrange the layers like a puzzle, as well as mix and pour the quiche...
How to make challah

How to make challah

Many families in the East Valley look forward to eating Chef Melinda’s delicious challah each Shabbat. Below she shares her recipe in this two-part video so you can try it at home. The first video shows how she made the dough and the second video shows different...
Cooking with Chef Melinda: Quinoa Salad

Cooking with Chef Melinda: Quinoa Salad

Anyone who has attended the East Valley JCC’s Open Beit Midrash Speaker Series, which is followed by a communal kosher lunch, has likely sampled Chef Melinda’s delicious Quinoa Salad. Though the Open Beit Midrash Speaker Series and its lunch are currently...