There are no easier pancakes than these to make, and you should always double this recipe. Always! It's so delicious and light and packs a little protein punch with the cottage cheese. It is a helluva lot less work than homemade blintzes and satisfies the taste buds that sometimes crave a cheese blintz. You know what I mean? It can't just be me. (Can it?) I love a good cheese blintz, and this recipe is a much healthier alternative made in minutes. Do not skip the lemon zest. Do not, I repeat, do not skip the lemon zest! Listen to me. You know, Mama knows best.

This is Mama Miche, and today in my magic kitchen: Avocado Toast

I came to a realization while working on the 2 e-cookbooks we are ever so close to releasing. That realization was that I've been cooking for a long time, and many of the recipes and techniques that I think are easy may not be easy for a new cook. This recipe is something anyone, even a total novice or newbie, can make. I promise it doesn't get any easier than avocado toast. It's toast. And an avocado smashed with some avocado oil and Twice Stolen Spice™. You can be a purist or top with bacon, fried egg, cottage cheese caprese, chili oil, and so much more! It's simple. You wanna be Sigma in the kitchen?

I love a good quiche! It sounds fancy because it's French, and foreigners and their Romance languages make everything sound so purdy.

One thing that is truly important on most days in my magic kitchen is ease. Shit has got to be easy. I'm not a trained chef; I'm a simple home cook. I've got a boarding house reach and NY middle-class manners, and I'm not fucking apologizing for who I am.

This is Mama Miche, and today in my magic kitchen: Sweet Matzoh Brei.

This is the matzoh brie of my childhood. Very few ingredients, very easy to make, and very good use of matzo in a week where that's all you can eat. Joking, not joking. There is also a delicious savory matzoh brei recipe I've shared on our YouTube channel and website in which we use our delicious Twice Stolen Spice™ I learned that one from my dear friend, Essra Mohawk. I mention that in the voiceover. In the time between making that video and this one, Essra left this plane. She was a gifted and highly underrated singer-songwriter.

This is Mama Miche, and today, in my magic kitchen: corned beef hash

Are there any meals that you make for the leftovers? I am here for all of those meals, especially corned beef hash. And I'm extra; I use everything from the corned beef dinner in the hash. That's right. Not just the corned beef! The potatoes, carrots, the onions. I chop all that shit up and add to the sauté pan and scramble some eggs, and you might be drooling just thinking about it.

This is Mama Miche, and today in my magic kitchen: Erik "Estrata"

When my mother-in-law was still alive, she made this for Christmas Day breakfast for as long as I knew her. For some reason, I wrongly assumed that this was what my hubster ate on Christmas Day as a child, but the asparagus strata became a staple just a few years before I came into the picture.

Also, for some reason only my husband understands, he calls it Erik Estrata. It's delicious, so he can call it whatever the fuck he wants, and I'm happy to make it every year for our Christmas Day breakfast. It is also good for any large family gathering. You make it the night before, refrigerate it overnight, and put it in the oven in the morning. It cooks for a little over an hour. And it has all the major food groups.

This is Mama Miche and today in My Magic Kitchen: Miche's Famous Tata

First, get yo' minds out of the gutter! Tata is short for frittata. And for now, my Tata isn't famous yet. But it's yummy, easy to make, and perfect for any meal, but it's especially delicious for Yom Kippur Break Fast. Everything is delicious when you haven't eaten in 25 hours.

Of course, we'll have bagels, lox, and cream cheese with all the accouterments. Whitefish, sometimes there are blintzes, apples, honey, and maybe a round challah if I have the time to bake one or buy it. But it must be a round challah for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur because it signifies the whole year. In every Jewish holiday meal, food signifies something else that has to do with why we celebrate that holiday.

Today, in Mama Miche’s Magic Kitchen, we are making breakfast burritos for Mother’s Day Brunch.

Mother’s Day is this coming Sunday and it is a bittersweet day for the motherless daughters with children of their own.

I remember one Mother’s Day after my parents divorced. Immediately after, my Momster and I lived in a one-bedroom apartment for a couple of years and it wasn’t a nice place. It wasn’t a clean building, so keeping critters out was hard.

My grandmother didn’t like us living in those conditions so she helped us move across the street to a new building. She had already moved into a place of her own in the building and offered to help my mom with the rent for our apartment so we could be safer. She wanted us to be in a clean apartment in a building with a doorman. And I had a bedroom all to myself again.

I cooked them Mother’s Day dinner for the first time in that apartment. I was around 10. My grandmother could be a nasty piece of work and she quickly tore apart the menu. She didn’t like this or didn’t like that about the meal. My Momster said she loved it, just like Moms do. My mom was often caught in the middle of disagreements between my grandma and me. I don’t think I ever cooked anything for my grandmother again.

Today in my magic kitchen we are making a delicious breakfast for the Passover holiday week - Matzo Brei.

No need to say God bless you! It may sound like a sneeze for those who don’t know what a matzo brei is, but it is a delicious breakfast. It makes a great use of matzo and is similar to French toast or huevos rancheros. I substitute the bread or tortilla chips with... you guessed it, Matzo.

After a couple of days of eating cardboard, which is how my Momster would describe matzo, you do need to find different ways of cooking with the ingredients that are “kosher for Passover” and matzo is key to the week long holiday. It’s so important to the story of Passover which is why it is one of the four questions that the youngest child must ask at a Seder dinner, why do we eat matzo? We are Jews. We suffer. That is why.