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Recipes Red Velvet Macaroon Cake Is for Lovers
There is a sad truth about Passover: Its dessert always falls short. Hanukkah has donuts, Purim has hamantaschen and Rosh Hashanah has honey cake. Poor Passover has no signature sweet. Perhaps you’ve put in the extra effort to make a kosher for Passover cake for your Seders past, but if you’re like me, you’ve never…
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Recipes Meet Mitchell Davis: Matzo Ball Master
When it comes to making the perfect matzo ball, Mitchell Davis doesn’t believe in baking soda, seltzer or good luck. He believes in his mother’s recipe. And really, really good chicken stock. Davis should know — he is the executive vice president of the James Beard Foundation, the country’s most prestigious culinary organization, and a…
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Recipes The Complete Guide To Hosting a Seder
Hosting a Passover Seder combines the culinary expectations of Thanksgiving with an Iron Chef like challenge: Cook an entire multi-course meal without leavening. It’s pretty daunting. But, with a bit of planning, it makes a great cooking project for a family or a group of friends, the results are delicious and it gives you culinary…
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Recipes Move Over Elijah! Julia Child Is Coming to Seder
Your bread may be swept away, the table set and macaroons purchased, but it really isn’t Passover until the aroma of brisket fills the house. On a holiday without freshly baked challah, no other scent compares to the nostalgic smell of slow cooked tender meat atop a bed of vegetables or nestled into a thick…
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Recipes Israeli Salads To Kick the Final Days of Winter
(Haaretz) — For the interval between having filled ourselves with hamantaschen and stuffing ourselves with matza brei and matza ball soups, here are three light and airy end-of-winter salads. Carrot ribbons with harissa aioli This salad is a contemporary play on the classic Moroccan carrot salad. The carrots here are raw, and shaved into ribbons;…
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Recipes Bake Your Own Boozy Cocktail Hamantaschen
What kind of genius came up with the idea that prunes would make a great cookie filling, to be eaten without fail once a year? Whoever they were, they were wrong. But have no fear! We have a new hamantaschen option for you this year, and it’s as delicious as a cocktail, without the embarrassment…
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Recipes Purim Sweets: Chocolate-Dipped Orangettes
Photos by Gayle L. Squires Orangettes are candied orange peel dipped in dark chocolate. Rather than just using the bright-colored zest, they use the slightly bitter pith, tamed by several dunks in boiling water. I add orange blossom water to the candying syrup to complement the pith. You can substitute for the extract two tablespoons…
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Recipes The Art of Couscous
‘For most people, you eat a hamantaschen on Purim and that’s that,” said Leetal Arazi. “We want to do something more.” Along with her husband Ron Arazi, Leetal runs NYShuk, an artisanal food company focusing on Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewish cuisines. And this Purim they’re planning a Moroccan feast with the Brooklyn-based Crow Hill…
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