Recipes
Chanukah Recipes: Latkes and Applesauce
Friday, November 13th, 2015Shira’s Famous Family Recipes
Latkes and Applesauce and don’t forget a little sour cream and then of course there’s sufganiyot (doughnuts) too.
Making Latkes and Applesauce with your children is the perfect way to celebrate this holiday together. A little messy, but a LOT of fun! Play ShirLaLa Chanukah music to make it a party! Or practice [...]
Purim Foods
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014The Eats!
Purim has one very famous food linked to it, and that is Hamentashn. They originated as a German pastry called Mohn Taschen, meaning “poppy seed pockets.” Who knows, maybe somewhere along the way someone thought it would be fun to create Haman’s pockets and named them, hamentashn. The triangular shape may also remind us [...]
Pesach Recipes – Make Your Own Matzah
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Make 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 ritual out [...]
Pesach Recipes – Sephardic Charoset
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Barbara Kline’s Charoset, Sephardic Style:
1 lb pitted chopped dates
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. Put through a [...]
Pesach Recipes – Chocolate Caramel Brickle
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Pesach 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
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Barbara 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 the matzah [...]
Pesach Recipes – Spinach and Edam Cheese Souffle
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Pesach 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 of [...]
Pesach Recipe – Seven Layer Chocoalte Matzah Cake
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011*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 white wine [...]
Recipe for the best Challah ever.
Monday, May 10th, 2010Barbara Kline’s Challah
This makes 2 small/medium size challahs. I find that it’s usually enough for 4-6 people.
First, make the yeast “sponge”
1/2 tumbler size glass hot water
1 tbls. yeast (or 1 envelope) regular not rapid rise
1 tbls. sugar
Stir together and let it do its thing while you combine the other ingredients.
Next, In large mixing bowl, combine:
4 [...]
Tapuchim U’dvash
Saturday, August 1st, 2009Ta-pu-CHIM u’DVASH (singular: ta-PU-ach and d’VASH) are apples and honey. On Rosh Hashanah we dip apples in honey for a sweet sweet year! Of course, we also eat honey cakes and slather honey on our challah and did you know that for the first year after getting married you get to dip your [...]
