Recipes
Passover Foods – The Way To My Heart
Sunday, March 24th, 2019All my life I’ve heard people say, “I hate Passover, you can’t eat ANYthing!” And I’ve always shaken my head and said, “You need to come over to my house.” Passover is straight up my favorite holiday because the food is SO GOOD! A large part of my Jewish identity was clearly formed by the [...]
Pesach Recipes – Make Your Own Matzah
Sunday, March 24th, 2019Make Your Own Matzah – Its much tastier and more fun!
Instructions based on my Dad’s. More info on his blog, Good-To-Be-A-Jew
"MAKE Matza???" You ask. Yes! It’s probably one of the easiest things you’ll ever bake in your kitchen. The experience and the unique taste of home-made matzah is enough to make a family [...]
Pesach Recipes – Sephardic Charoset
Sunday, March 24th, 2019Barbara Kline’s Charoset, Sephardic Style:
1 lb pitted chopped dates or date paste
Sweet Kosher for Pesach wine
Ground cinnamon
Chopped walnuts
Cover dates with water in a saucepan and cook over moderate heat until the dates break down into a smooth mass. The results should be like a thick jam. Mix in enough wine to loosen the consistency slightly. [...]
Pesach Recipes – Chocolate Caramel Brickle
Sunday, March 24th, 2019Pesach Brickle (thanks to Delores Gross who calls it a Pitzel Brickel, with slight variations by Barbara Kline)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Ingredients:
Matzah
1 C butter
1 C brown sugar
Almonds – whole or chopped coarsely
2 packages Kosher l’Pesach semi-sweet chocolate and 2 packages milk chocolate chips
Grease a cookie pan with butter. Cover the pan with a layer of [...]
Pesach Recipes – Middle Eastern Lamb Kubeh
Sunday, March 24th, 2019Barbara Kline’s Kubeh
Ingredients:
Ground lamb
Finely chopped onion
Finely chopped garlic
Salt
Pepper
Paprika
Cumin
Turmeric
1 egg
1 recipe of matzah ball mixture adding chopped parsley and ginger
All of the seasonings are to-taste. We make it quite spicy. Make matzah ball dough and refrigerate for at least one hour. Mix together the lamb and the following eight ingredients. Form a ball with [...]
Pesach Recipes – Spinach and Edam Cheese Souffle
Sunday, March 24th, 2019Pesach Souffle (thanks to Edna Cohen)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Ingredients:
6 eggs, separated
1 lb spinach
1/2 lb edam cheese, sliced
1 lb cottage cheese
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg (or to taste)
matzah
Butter the inside of a soufflé dish and cover the bottom with a double layer of matzah.
Plunge spinach into boiling water and remove almost immediately, squeezing some [...]
Pesach Recipe – Seven Layer Chocoalte Matzah Cake
Sunday, March 24th, 2019*This is an amazing cake. One year, when I was a child, I practically poisoned myself with chocolate matzah cake I ate so much of it. ENJOY!
Seven Layer Matzah Cake
1/2 lb semi sweet chocolate
1 tblsp unsalted butter
1/2 lb or 1 jar raspberry jam without seeds (can also use marmalade)
2 eggs
2 tblsp brandy
3/4 C [...]
Passover Foods – The Way To My Heart
Friday, March 1st, 2019All my life I’ve heard people say, “I hate Passover, you can’t eat ANYthing!” And I’ve always shaken my head and said, “You need to come over to my house.” Passover is straight up my favorite holiday because the food is SO GOOD! A large part of my Jewish identity was clearly formed by the [...]
Tu B’Shvat Birthday Cake
Friday, January 1st, 2016Make a Tu B’Shvat Tree Birthday Cake!
Using your favorite cake or cookie dough recipe, spread the batter onto a 11 X 14 cookie sheet (one without sides so that the cookie can be slipped off onto a board).
After baking, while the dough is still slightly warm…
Cut the basic shape of a tree out of the [...]
Tu B’Shvat Recipes
Friday, January 1st, 2016From, “Taste of Tradition” by Ruth Sirkis
Ruth, considered to be ‘the Julia Child of Israel” tells us, Tu B’Shvat is all about “going on a nature kick.” In Israel, “meadows, orchards and vineyards begin to blossom.” So, “foods of the holiday are related to nature and trees as well. It is traditional to [...]
