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Recipes Tu B’Shvat Cocktail: The Arbor and the Ale
To celebrate Tu B’Shvat, a fig-scented cocktail. Photograph by Jon Wunder. Writing for the Forward, I’ve learned so much. My education continued this week when I was asked to create a cocktail recipe to celebrate the upcoming holiday of Tu B’Shvat. I am delighted to write about Tu B’Shvat, mainly because up until several days…
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Recipes Honeyed and Spiced Dried Fruit Compote
Dried fruit is often incorporated into the Tu B’Shvat seder to reference the seven fruits of Israel. Photograph by Shulie Madnick. This year for Tu B’Shvat I’ll be making a dried fruit compote. The Tu-B’Shvat seder custom was created in Safed in the 17th century. Prayers over the seven species — wheat, barley, grape, fig,…
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Recipes Tofu With Apricots, Olives and Almonds
Moroccan-style tofu with apricots, olives and almonds. Photograph by Susan Voisin. Editor’s Note: Originally published as a recipe for Tu B’Shvat, this dish also makes a delightful vegetarian dish for a festive Hanukkah dinner — the olives nodding to the symbolism of the oil that burned for eight nights. This flavorful, hearty vegetarian dish serves…
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Recipes Going Wild with Avocados
Avocado and Roast Beef Salad. Photograph by Dan Peretz. I spy avocados lying in a crate in the market and am instantly diverted from my original purpose. I pick one up, cradle it in my hands and think about the beautiful tree that has yielded this fruit. Then I pick out a few more, wrap…
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Recipes Luscious Lemon Pie for National Pie Day
At the end of a winding road through a cul-de-sac in Columbus, Ohio, lived my maternal grandparents, Lillian and Marty. They were always there when we pulled up, smiling through the screened door. My grandmother was always cooking. I don’t think I ever saw her without her apron on. I remember her mostly from behind;…
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Recipes Banana-Walnut Pancakes as Penicillin
Photograph by Liza Schoenfein The flu came on so suddenly, I didn’t have time to make my own chicken soup. Thankfully, Zabar’s is right around the corner from the pediatrician, where my husband, Mark, and I both accompanied the ailing 11-year-old, all 104 degrees of him. A quick march to the back of the store…
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Recipes A Vegan Cholent for Next Shabbat
Photograph by Vered Guttman Of all the Jewish culinary traditions, Shabbat overnight dishes are the ones that ignite my imagination time and again. From the stories of the communal ovens in Eastern European shtetls, Moroccan villages or Jerusalem’s Old City up to today’s families who keep this tradition going, there’s always something very homey and…
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Recipes Lamb Stew With Winter Vegetables
Photograph by Liza Schoenfein When I saw that my CSA, Farmigo, was offering grass-fed lamb stew meat from sheep raised on family farms in the Hudson Valley, I pounced. Frigid January days just seem to require the sort of stick-to-your-ribs sustenance that only a good stew can provide. Related Still, I’ve been trying to strike…
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