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Tired too? Try double chocolate cheesecake truffles I #TweetYourShabbat
I am worn out. You are too. I have a preschooler and I work multiple jobs, so I am used to being tired. A full 8 hours of sleep is an occasional luxury. That said, the past two months have been grueling. School has been closed since Mar. 12, so I have added “teacher” to…
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Shavuot’s Seven Heaven Challah
The breathtaking Seven Heaven Challah brings a diversity of Jewish experiences and palates to your festive Shavuot table. A lesser-known Sephardi custom, it mixes together the celebration of the wheat harvest of Shavuot, Chag Hakatzir, (the Harvest Festival) with the customary milk-based foods associated with the revelation of Torah at Mount Sinai. Also called Los…
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Why I make these sirniki, or Russian cheese pancakes, for Shavuot [VIDEO]
If you read and discuss enough biblical commentary and ask why ancient figures didn’t do things along what we today think of as “Jewish” lines, you often get the response of ‘Well, they didn’t have the Torah yet. They didn’t know.’ It’s always been a point of comfort for me as someone who was raised…
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Better-than-Ratner’s cheese blintz
If you’re from New York, the name Ratner’s gives you dewy-eyed nostalgia for the great dairy restaurant of yore. But I’m from LA, and Ratner’s just makes me think of my dentist, Dr. Farkas, whose office is on Ratner St. There’s a connection– Alex Ratner came west in 1914 to beat back tuberculosis, and he…
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Jay Sanderson’s Beet Variations
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Mini berry cobblers for a pandemic Memorial Day | #TweetYourShabbat
The Shabbat before Memorial Day is usually a time for celebration. Not this year. This year, there will be no road trips. No days at the beach. No laying by the pool eating watermelon and chips. No fond farewell before camp. No graduation parties. There will be more of this terrible stillness. This suspended animation….
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Fermented stuffed grape leaves for #QuarantineShabbat
Anyone else feeling claustrophobic? I’m blessed, I get that. We have a yard, fruit trees and vegetable gardens I’ve been tending for two decades – even a hammock. As internal exile goes, it’s pretty sweet. But here in Los Angeles, county officials just announced the stay-at-home order may extend through August. And, as the quarantine…
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A perfect kugel for a new life | #TweetYourShabbat
When I got married my mother bought me a dining room table. It was a beautiful dark wood table with extension leaves for when guests came to dinner. My husband and I had just moved from my tiny 450 square foot single girl apartment into a shiny new apartment with floor to ceiling windows and…
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Chocolate olive-oil mousse and other blessings of a #QuarantineShabbat
My Instagram feed has news photos and food photos. This week the food photos showed some pretty wonderful, cozy quarantine feasts, challahs and sourdoughs. The news photos showed pictures of thousands of cars waiting in a giant parking lot for handouts from the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. In case we’d been able to ignore…
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Cooking salsa macha evokes a less surreal time
While it’s hard to get a bad meal anywhere in Mexico City, my favorite places to eat when I visit are the outdoor markets. The food is like something from a Hemingway novel – simple, honest, and good. Customers cram themselves around long tables on small plastic chairs, sharing bowls of salsa – a memory…
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