Last year I posted a recipe for your basic traditional hamantaschen to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim. This year, it was time to come up with some new flavors to brighten up this drab winter that seems to NEVER END. Peanut butter and Jelly hamantaschen anyone? Lemon custard filling? No problem.
Firstly, preheat oven [...]
Here is a fabulous dairy free yet rich chocolaty cake. The only difficult thing about baking it is finding almond flour. Almond flour is simply, ground blanched almonds. You can make it yourself, by grinding almonds in a food processor (but not too much or almond butter will result). If you can’t maintain the delicate [...]
Recipes and pics to follow, but check out our family’s Thanksgiving menu 2009 (and menu 2008) Cannot wait to cook and eat our hearts out on Thursday…
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Starters:
Potato Soup
Grandma’s Stuffed Cabbage
Hummus, Matbucha, Chazilim (Israeli Dips)
Main Course:
Mom’s Turkey & Potatoes
Grandma’s French Roast
Roasted Fingerling Potatoes
Moroccan Couscous + Vegetables
Dessert:
Mom’s Jello Mold (sounds weird but is amazing)
Plum [...]
Thanks to the recent epidemic of the flu, I fell ill with the grippe on Tuesday afternoon. So I went straight home, drugged myself, and slept til Wednesday….feeling like crap in the fall is surely NO FUN. But, there is an upside of being sick,which is taking a sick day from work! Most people like [...]
Muffins are very clever because they are really dessert masquerading as breakfast. It would seem a bit inappropriate to eat cookies and cakes for breakfast…but muffins? No way. Also, you can’t eat five cupcakes without being known as a fatty, but you can eat as many muffins as humanely possible and no one would yell [...]
