With Rosh Hashanah right around the corner (yes, it is already Elul) it means that apple and honey season is upon us again. While honey cake can be utterly delicious (if you don’t believe me try this one) I like to do something a bit more interesting with my holiday desserts. It has become my […]
rosh hashana
Rosh Hashana is fast approaching and I have a few more holiday desserts I want to share. On Rosh Hashanah it is traditional to eat foods symbolic of our hopes for a good and prosperous new year. The most recognizable of these symbols is the apple dipped in honey, but there are many more symbolic […]
After apples and honey, pomegranates are one of the most ubiquitous foods on the Rosh Hashana table. Because the pomegranate has so many seeds it is a symbol of plenty. On Rosh Hashana we state the hope “that our merits increase like (the seeds of) a pomegranate” in the coming year. I always try to incorporate […]
As some of my regular readers may have noticed over the past year I have been participating in the Kosher Connection Link-ups, posting a recipe each month in keeping an assigned theme. As a dessert blogger it is a been a wonderful challenge and I look forward to each month’s linkup. For the one year […]
These marshmallows are a new and improved version of the Apple and Honey Marshmallows I made two years ago for Rosh Hashanah. Since I was still relatively new to making marshmallows, and wanted to use recipes I knew would work, I made those by layering Eileen Talanian’s apple marshmallows on top of her honey marshmallows. […]
