Jessica Fechtor
By Jessica Fechtor
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Recipes Marcella’s Butter Almond Cake
The inspiration for Jessica Fechtor’s blog Sweet Amandine, this exquisite cake is also featured in her Read about the book “Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home,” Five-Fold Challah Related This cake was created by Marcella Sarne, who entered it in a baking context sponsored by C&H Sugar and won, to…
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Recipes Five-Fold Challah
A fabulous challah recipe from Jessica Fechtor’s Read about the book “Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home,” Marcella’s Butter Almond Cake Based on a tip from Andew Janjigian, a baker and editor at Cook’s Illustrated magazine, Jess folds the dough instead of kneading it, and lets it rise in the…
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Food Cooking Shabbos Dinner After the Clocks Fall Back, Part Three
Cooking Shabbos Dinner After the Clocks Fall Back, Part One Cooking Shabbos Dinner After the Clocks Fall Back, Part Two We’re used to it by now: the mad dash home on these too-short Friday afternoons. They say the days are getting longer now, but I don’t know. The hours that we optimistically call “late afternoon”…
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Food Cooking Shabbos Dinner After the Clocks Fall Back, Part Two
That first Friday after the clocks fall back can be a serious shock to the system. An entire hour of daylight: gone. It’s a bold move. What happens next is more insidious. Over the next month or so, the light will continue to slip away, but quietly, dwindling by mere seconds each day. Those seconds…
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Food Cooking Shabbos Dinner After the Clocks Fall Back
I don’t usually make it my business to tell people how to spend less time in the kitchen. I can bang together a five-minute meal with the best of them but, time permitting, I prefer to tie on an apron and stay a while. Especially when the clocks fall back, and darkness seeps in around…
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