One of the most traditional foods for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is apples dipped in honey. Sure no holiday meal would be complete without sweet round challah, but the flavor that most epitomizes this holiday season for many people is the combination of apples and honey. This year I decided to play with […]
One thing that never seems to be lack on Passover is candy. Synagogue schools sell it as a fundraiser, and otherwise health conscious people somehow seem to decide that at least a box of candy per person is a necessary staple to make it through the holiday. As a kid I eagerly looked forward to […]
My number one recipient of Christmas candy is my college roommate. It is her tastes I consider when planning the candy to make each year. She knits amazing things for us and I send her sweets. I know I have the better end of the deal, but I do what I can. When I came across a recipe […]
I recently acquired a new cook book (and by acquired, I mean somehow I clicked the button the placed it in my Amazon cart. It is amazing how often that happens with cookbooks, I just can’t explain it). I am in love. It is an entire book dedicated to marshmallows. Now I happen to be […]
Every once and a while everyone needs a night off. Sure, there are plenty of evenings where time piddles away and at bedtime I realize that I haven’t accomplished anything I set out to accomplish. But an evening of piddling doesn’t have the same relaxing effect as making a clear statement from the beginning that it is an […]
by Shoshana on September 5, 2008
Last year, while perusing the retro candy section at Dylan’s Candy Bar, my husband stumbled upon his favorite childhood candy. The Chick-o-Stick. As I nostalgically looked at the wax bottles filled with sweet colored liquid, the wax lips, and the candy buttons on the paper ribbon, resisting buying them because I knew they would only disappoint, he confidently […]
With the start of school looming up ahead, and an unfinished incomplete left from several years ago that I never seem to get around to, I knew drastic measures were needed to motivate me to finish in order to start my final school year with a clean slate. So I set a moratorium on candy […]
In my mind candied nuts are a cross between a snack food and a junk food. They are sweet and sugary, but at the same time are chock full of the wholesomeness of nuts. Easy to make yet impressive looking, they add quick elegance to a simple salad.
