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Recipes Easy Apple Crisp
This recipe is simple to make, uncomplicated in flavor and utterly delicious to eat. It works equally well with pitted plums, or a combination of plums and apples. Serves 6 Keeps for 3 days in the fridge | freezes for 3 months Related [Taste Testing ‘100 Best Jewish Recipes’ (https://forward.com/food/340937/taste-testing-100-best-jewish-recipes/) Avocado and Egg Pâté 4…
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Recipes Date Honey and Tahini Semifreddi With Cashew Brittle
The inventive use of tahini in Israeli cuisine fascinates me. I stayed a few nights at Smadar and Yossi Yardeni’s B+B in Clil, where Smadar finished off the meal with this pleasing balance of sweet, nutty, and frozen sensations. Silan is often called date honey and is a brown syrup extracted from dates. It can…
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Recipes Easy, Awesome Homemade Hummus — In 5 Minutes Flat
It was interesting to read this week that a staggering number of Israeli’s — 70% — say they have hummus in their fridge. It got me wondering how many of those tubs of hummus were store bought. Probably most. I buy hummus too — I have two growing teenage boys, and hummus is a filling, nutritious…
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Recipes Chocolate-Babka French Toast for Mom
It is hard to think of something more fitting to serve for Mother’s Day than babka. Named after the bubbes who baked them in Eastern Europe (babka translates to “grandmother’s loaf”), the brioche-tender, bread-cake hybrid, which comes swirled with chocolate or cinnamon, is the edible equivalent of maternal affection. Meanwhile, Mother’s Day celebrations tend to…
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Recipes Chocolate Cake From the Mother of Jewish Chocolatiers
When we slather our mothers with chocolaty tributes on Mother’s Day, we will be stepping onto a chocolate trail pioneered by Jewish mothers before us, notably Rebecca Gomez of the 18th-Century Colonial Period. Related Gomez, along with her husband and son, had an appetite for the chocolate business in Manhattan. After the death of her…
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Recipes Must-Make (Matzo-Free) Passover Desserts
Reuters — Every year, for the first few days of Passover, matzo seems somehow so new. A fat shmear of Temp-Tee ultra-whipped cream cheese and a tart and fruity jelly on top. Or soaked and fried into a matzo brei, crunchy with sugar and cinnamon. These are the foods of memory to me. But the…
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Recipes Matzo Brei With Fresh Herbs and Early Spring Greens
Matzo Brei (rhymes with “fry”), literally fried matzo, is the most beloved of Passover week traditions, the centerpiece of a simple brunch or breakfast: softened matzo, usually with egg beaten into it, fried in hot fat. This mixture may be scrambled, formed into little pancakes or cooked like an omelet. I have eaten it in…
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Recipes Indian-Spiced Matzo Fritters
If you’re like me, you have so much matzo in the house that you’ll be snacking on the stuff for at least two weeks after Passover has ended. This year, I wanted to experiment a little bit and find a different way to enjoy the abundance of leftover unleavened bread. These fried balls of matzo…
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