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Food Manny’s Grandmother’s Three Sisters Soup
This recipe comes together quickly and easily and you can even use your Thanksgiving leftovers. Manny likes to add curry and coriander to his Grandmother’s recipe to enhance the sweetness of the squash, but if you’re looking for a more traditional flavor you can omit. Ingredients: 3 tablespoons pareve butter 4 cups chicken or vegetable…
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Community Remember Thanksgivvukah? This year, let’s try Shabbosgiving
Chances are, you have never heard of Shabbosgiving. It is likely that no one near you ever made mention of Challoween either, which is my own personal mash-up of Halloween, Jewish-style. Yet everyone probably knows about Thanksgivukkah, which entered the lexicon in 2013, when Hanukkah and Thanksgiving coincided. That coincidence last occurred in 1888 and…
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Recipes Thanksgiving Leftovers Get a Shabbat Makeover
With all the cooking that leads up to Thanksgiving — there turkey to prepare, cranberry sauce, all those pies and don’t forget the gravy — no one, not even the most dedicated cooks, wants to exert that energy all over again for Shabbat the following day. But plain leftovers, in the form of a turkey…
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Food Shabbat Meals: A Soup For Every Season
Friday night dinners at our home were inviolable. We rarely ate dinner out the rest of the week, but there were exceptions: good pasta con ceci at the Italian restaurant in the mall where my father drank sambuca with coffee beans floated in it, adventures in the city to find Peking duck. Friday night dinner…
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