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The Schmooze How Do You Keep, and Break, Passover?
In the past few years, I’ve struggled to reconcile being a non-believer with my love of Jewish culture and traditions. So I’ve wavered back and forth on keeping Passover and fasting on Yom Kippur, the two most intrinsic rituals of self-deprivation for the sake of enlightenment on the Jewish calendar. This year, after a few…
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The Schmooze Bread Masquerading as Matzo
It looks like matzo, it tastes like matzo, but it’s really…. bread. The Chief Rabbinate’s Fraud Division has put out a statement urging all Israeli shoppers to be on the lookout for certain brands of matzo thought to have been baked in contravention of Passover rules, meaning eating it on Passover is, religiously-speaking, the same…
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News Yid.Dish: Beer Bread (AKA Emergency-Use-Up-My-Beer-Before-Passover Bread)
I hosted a St. Patrick’s Day dinner party last week. We drank a lot of beer, but I still have plenty left that I’d like to use up before Passover (Michelle, I accept your cupboard cleaning challenge). There are many wonderful uses for beer (like Guinness Braised London Broil), but my current favorite is beer…
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News Yid. Dish: Bread Machine Egg Bread
Have an old bread machine hanging around? Want the taste of challah without the effort? I’ve made this delicious egg bread from a recipe in this cookbook. It’s delicious for sandwiches, french toast, regular toast, and dunked into soup. This past summer I bought my bread machine for $25 at the local Goodwill. It came…
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News Yid.Dish: Beer Bread from the Edge of Irony
To participate in the sustainable food movement today is to live on the edge of irony. Especially if you’re taking part in the movement from a seriously urban setting like, say, Washington, D.C. What do I mean by this? Just look at this summer. Over the past few months, I’ve taken digital pictures of my…
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News Yid.Dish: Cranberry Bread
2 cups of flour 1/2 to 3/4 cup of sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda 1 teaspoon salt ½ stick of softened butter ½ cup applesauce 1 beaten egg The zest of one orange 3/4 cup of orange juice 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon of freshly grated nutmeg…
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News Yid.Dish: Apple Butter and Anise Bread
Yom Kippur stirs my strongest Jewish food memory – it’s strange, but true. Since I was in the single digits I can remember walking to Ne’ila services with my mother and father, carrying a bag filled with two essential components of our holiday inside. One was a three-pound sack of apples, the then ubiquitous McIntosh…
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