I’m embarking on a personal journey and I’m going to bring you along for the ride. Over the next year, I’ll be kashering my apartment’s kitchen and exploring what it takes, what it means and how I feel throughout the process. Why? Honestly, I’m
LinzerTashen
Purim 2015 (5775) – the year of the LinzerTashen! This year I thought outside of the triangle-shaped box. I forwent the ‘folded-up sides’ part of the traditional hamantashen, and made linzer cookies into linzertashen! I started with a favorite Martha Stewart recipe
Superfruit and Superaromatic Charoset
This article was originally posted on The Jew and the Carrot (3/21/13), the food blog associated with the Jewish Daily Forward. Let’s face it: even without the charoset, we honor mortar on Passover. The food of this holiday isn’t—how can I say this
A New Kind of Kugel
Confession: I’m not the biggest lover of kugel. I find most kugels heavy, filling, and bland. So when I came across this inspired reinterpretation in Martha Stewart Living’s April issue that she called a “potato kugel gratin”, I knew I wanted
Lightening Up Passover Cookies
Passover definitely comes with its fair share of culinary challenges, with avoiding wheat, grains, flour, beans and many seeds. Passover desserts therefore are often heavy, dense, nut-laden cookies and cakes that – let’s be honest here – are pretty hard