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Sprinkletastic strawberry ice cream cake for Shabbat Nachamu I #TweetYourShabbat
#tweetyourshabbat is a global movement founded by Carly Pildis, celebrating the struggle and joy of getting Shabbat on the table every week. This is a place for real dinners and real conversations about Jewish life. Join us at Forward in sharing what you’ll be eating and how your feeling this week at #TweetYourShabbat Today is…
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I have always been jealous of the eggplant
(Ed. Note: The Forward is delighted to welcome Vivien Sansour as a regular food columnist. You can read more about Vivien here) The flowers on my eggplants are getting full. I had never taken much notice of how the eggplant flower suddenly transforms into a heavy shell that produces a perfectly purple vegetable, but in…
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All I can give you are Garlic and Herb French Fries I #TweetYourShabbat
#tweetyourshabbat is a global movement founded by Carly Pildis, celebrating the struggle and joy of getting Shabbat on the table every week. This is a place for real dinners and real conversations about Jewish life. Join us at Forward in sharing what you’ll be eating and how your feeling this week at #TweetYourShabbat Summer is…
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Chocolate espresso cake for 100+ days without school | #TweetYourShabbat
My daughter is standing on my shoulders. Literally. She is pulling my hair over my eyes. She is pushing Cheez-It in my mouth. She is kissing my cheeks. Normally, this would make me laugh. Except I am at work. During this particular Zoom meeting, my daughter has planted herself on me and will not be…
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A $25 Shabbat menu for struggling families | #TweetYourShabbat
Across America, families are struggling to get Shabbat on the table. Over 40 million Americans have lost their jobs. Some 1.5 million Americans have filed for unemployment weekly for the past 3 weeks. The global economy has been battered by the Coronavirus pandemic, with some predicting it will take the U.S. economy a decade to…
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Too hot to bake? Try Yemenite flatbreads
When it gets too hot to bake challah, try these Yemenite breads for Shabbat: lachuch and saluf. Avoid turning on the oven and also skip the braiding. Rooted in the ancient technique of baking breads on stones or over embers, these recipes are updated to use yeast, non-stick pans, and a stovetop. Flavored with ground…
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I want peach hand pies and a better America for this 4th of July | #TweetYourShabbat
The Shabbat before the Fourth of July. Any other year, I would be sitting on my parent’s back porch. I’d be drinking a gin and tonic and watching the kids play while the smell of grilled corn and steak filled the crisp New England air. My family has always loved the Fourth of July, which…
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Crispy Oven-Fried Chicken Worth Staying Home for | #TweetYourShabbat
COVID cases are rising. People are still dying. Please stay home this Shabbat. I know you probably miss a bigger, more communal version of Shabbat. I know I do. I miss Tot Shabbat where all the kids dance and sing and rip hunks of challah and pass it around. That seems unfathomable now. I miss…
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In isolation, I made ‘terroir breads’ from the land
The Forward welcomes Erez Komarovsky as its newest contributing writer. Read more about Erez here. For the past two-and-a-half months, we have been quarantined in my hillside home in Mattat, in the north of Israel, just a few kilometers from the Lebanon border. We are isolated from the world, like everyone else– no cooking workshops…
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Instead of cake, try wedding bread
Weddings this summer sure are different. Cocktail hour? Not likely. Dancing? Probably not. Friends and family? Perhaps a very few. With the pandemic limiting celebrations this year, perhaps it’s time to turn to the comforting traditions of Jewish bridal breads. The custom of baking a special wedding bread took root in Baghdad, Eastern Europe, Ethiopia,…
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In “Falastin: A Cookbook,” Sami Tamimi cooks with tradition, love and politics
Co-authoring the bestselling “Jerusalem: A Cookbook” in 2012 with business partner Yotam Ottolenghi made Sami Tamimi realize he’d someday do a cookbook of Palestinian food. Tamimi, a Palestinian Arab born in Jerusalem, has been with Ottolenghi, a Jewish Jerusalemite, since the beginning, often working as an executive chef. For this book, he has teamed up…
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