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Recipes Fig and Pumpkin Bread Pudding for Sukkot Breakfast
Unlike Hanukkah’s potato latkes and sufganiyot or Purim’s hamantaschen, there aren’t a lot of specific foods that come along with celebrating Sukkot. Instead, Sukkot is the Jewish calendar’s poster child for seasonal eating. The holiday’s meals highlight the abundance of produce that early autumn brings: crisp apples and creamy squash, slick and heavy eggplants, sweet…
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Recipes Eggplant Offers Surprisingly Savory (and Kosher) Bacon Alternative
“I’ll give you 22 ways to love eggplant,” cookbook author exclaimed when the publisher of Short Stack Editions admitted it was his least favorite vegetable. And so, Pelzel developed, tested and perfected nearly two-dozen eggplant recipes for her most recent cookbook titled, simply, “Eggplant.” This hand-sewn booklet packs snacking, family dining and entertaining ideas into…
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Recipes Easy Apple-Preserving Ideas — Sauce, Butter, Cider and Leather
The custom of dipping apples in honey on Rosh Hashanah is so well-established as a symbol of our hopes for a sweet New Year that no matter how we celebrate the holiday this year, whatever foods we serve on this festive occasion, apples are sure to be featured. Why apples? According to Jewish sources, the…
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Recipes Honey Cookies for Rosh Hashanah
Everybody likes the idea of honey cake for Rosh Hashanah. I have a recipe from my great grandmother that fills me with nostalgic fondness, and several friends have sent me similar recipes from their own, mostly Russian-Jewish families. I have tried at least six honey cake recipes over the years, and everyone agrees that it’s…
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Recipes Rosh Hashanah Recipe Roundup
From traditional recipes to modern classics to innovative, unexpected holiday meals — it’s all here in one place.
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Recipes Recipe: Moroccan Preserved Lemons
Preserved lemons take about a month to ferment, so starting the lemons now will allow you to have these beautiful, zesty, salty treats as part of your Sukkot meal. This recipe was very freely adapted from Paula Wolfert’s “Couscous and Other Good Food From Morocco”. Related article: 10-14 lemons, preferably unwaxed and organic (because you’re…
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Recipes What to Eat During the Debates? Fried Olives, Meatballs and Other Projectiles
In discussing what foods we felt like eating (and recommending) for tonight’s presidential debate, two categories emerged: first, comfort foods, to help soothe us. Second, foods that would make good projectiles. Conveniently, it’s still tomato season, and tomatoes — like the candidates words themselves — are best taken with a few grains of salt. So,…
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Recipes Crispy Chicken With Tzimmes
Tzimmes is a sweet Ashkenazi stew in which the ingredients vary depending on family origin and tradition. The dish is often eaten during the Jewish High Holidays to symbolically usher in a sweet new year. This sweet-and-savory chicken tzimmes is an easy dish with a built-in side. The juices of the chicken enhance the flavors…
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