The Last Schmaltz

Decorating & Design

Rib Roast

Try this Rib Roast recipe from the cookbook The Last Schmaltz. My mom hates a rib steak (too fatty), but the rest of the family loves it (so fatty). Steaks are one thing, but slow-roasting a whole or even a half bone-in roast to rare is the best. Cut it into huge…

Decorating & Design

Patty Melt

Try this Patty Melt recipe from the cookbook The Last Schmaltz. Not quite a hamburger and not quite a grilled cheese, this is a grilled cheese sandwich with a hamburger patty inside. It’s the best non-hamburger in Toronto, as voted unanimously by me. The grilled cheese is fried in butter and…

Decorating & Design

Nutella Babka Bread Pudding

Try this Nutella Babka Bread Pudding recipe from the cookbook The Last Schmaltz. I stand with Elaine Benes (you know, Elaine from Seinfeld) on the great babka debate. Cinnamon babka is a lesser babka than chocolate babka. By a longshot. In this recipe, the sourness of the labneh and the sweetness…