Passover Granola Bars

March 20, 2013
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One of the things that is tricky on Passover is coming up with good portable snacks. The kids are off of school which means I don’t have to worry about packing lunches, but I still need snacks for all of our outings. Sure, we eat a lot of nuts, dried fruit, and string cheese but […]

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Chocolate Raspberry Ganache Tart

March 18, 2013
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One of my favorite flavor combinations is raspberry and chocolate. The sweet/tart quality of the raspberry perfectly cuts through richness of the chocolate making for a wonderfully balanced dessert. This is especially important with parve baking. It is easy to make intensely rich parve desserts but it is a bit more difficult to make desserts […]

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Marshmallow Frogs (aka Kosher Peeps)

March 11, 2013
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With Passover just two weeks away my Seder planning is in full swing. Besides all of the food planning and shopping one of the major things I think about in planning the seders is how to keep the participants engaged. Especially when they belong to the five and under crowd. According to the Gemara one […]

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Meyer Lemon, Almond, and Blueberry Bundt Cake

March 8, 2013
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Almond paste is one of my favorite things. I love the sweet almond flavor and use it in as many things as I can. It can get expensive to buy the tiny cans of almond paste they sell in the store so I buy the huge industrial sized can and keep the almond paste in […]

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Filled Hamentashen

February 21, 2013
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Sometimes I get a recipe idea in my head and I just can’t let it go until I get it right. That is what happened with these hamentashen. I was trying to think of new creative hamentashen ideas to post this year and the first thing that popped into my mind was “chocolate chip cookie […]

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Cake Batter Rice Krispy Treats

February 18, 2013
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These festive rice krispy treats are my contriubtion to a wonderful virtual wedding celebration. The talented Allison of AliBabka got married yesterday and a bunch of us are throwing her a virtual Sheva Brachot celebration today. There is a tradition of having celebratory meals with family and friends for the seven days after the wedding, […]

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Pecan Pie Hamentashen

February 14, 2013
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Pecan Pie is one of my favorite desserts. I love the sweet buttery custard and the crunch of the pecans offset by a perfectly flaky crust. In fact I love all forms of sticky pecan desserts. Pecan bars, pecan tarts, sticky bun french toast, the sweet sugar and crunch nuts get me every time. That […]

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Passion Fruit Truffles

February 11, 2013
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The Jewish holiday of Purim is just two weeks away and my household is already gearing up. We have figured out our costumes and have been listening to Purim music nonstop. (Although, in the interest of full disclosure I should probably mention that we listen to Purim music nonstop year round because whenever I give […]

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Chocolate Peppermint Pudding Shots

January 21, 2013
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There is something about food in miniature that makes it so much more fun to eat. I absolutely love miniature foods and whenever I see mini serving dishes I can’t help buying them. Somehow in miniature the same everyday food that seems too basic to serve to company suddenly becomes party worthy. Would I serve […]

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Sticky Bun French Toast

January 19, 2013
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Most mornings breakfast around here is usually pretty rushed. With getting everyone up, dressed, and to school there isn’t much time for leisurely breakfasts. That is why long weekends are the perfect opportunity to make special breakfasts that feel more like a special event rather than just a quick meal before we go about our […]

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If You Had Chinese Food for Christmas Eve…

December 24, 2012
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I’m a bit late to the December roundup, but since it still isn’t midnight here on the west coast I thought I would sneak a post in under the wire. There seems to be a tradition among America Jews to celebrate Christmas by eating Chinese food and seeing a movie. In honor of that the […]

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