Who knew that big brands sometimes make keeping a kosher kitchen easier with utensils in many colors? For quite a few years, I’ve been using this microplane on the dairy side of my kitchen. Besides for zesting lemons, I love the microplane for shaving a fluffy pile of parmesan. And every time I needed to…
Declutter Your Camera Roll One Date at a Time
Want to cut down on the thousands of images clogging up your phone? This method helps you do it quickly and painlessly. Years and years, thousands and thousands – how do you go through your full camera roll and eliminate all the junk? The answer we came up with is one date at a time….
Indoor Family Fun In and Around Central NJ
Rainy or cold? If you want to have fun indoors in the greater Lakewood area, here’s our master list of things to do with kids. The kids are home and you want to have some fun together out of the house, but perhaps the weather is just not so inviting. If you’re in the Lakewood,…
Get Your Small Appliance Cords Under Control
They get tangled and caught up in each other – but we have a solution! Whether you have 3 or 10 small appliances, chances are you have dangling wires. They get messy, tangled – and sometimes caught in the back of the drawer. While some of them include a built-in piece around which to wrap…
Our Favorite Quince Picks – It’s Luxe for Better Prices
They don’t have a fancy designer label, but the quality and design are high end. Editor’s Note: Since the time that we first published our Quince favorites, there’s been lots more items with great quality and value added to the line-up. We updated this post to bring more top picks your way. Do you enjoy…
How To Avoid the Coat Mix-ups
With so many people wearing similar coats, there’s always someone taking the wrong one and leaving his coat behind. Whether is a “shayne coat” type of raincoat, a black wool coat, or a TO fur-lined hoodie, so many of our guys wear the same outerwear. And how often does it get swapped? I got this…
Add This Classic Pickle Dip to your Shabbos Meal
If you love pickles, you probably love a good pickle dip, too! Bring on the pickles! No, really. Any type of pickle – I’m your girl. You know the pickle plate at pretty much every simcha? I call dibs first. Half sour, full sour, dill, garlic, spicy – all good! And this isn’t even my…
Pomegranate Leek Relish for Your Rosh Hashanah Simanim
Instead of making leek patties, we make this tangy relish that combines leek and pomegranate. I’ve never made leek patties for our Rosh Hashanah simanim. (We do have a recipe for them here on Between Carpools.) It’s not something my family would enjoy eating. For a few years I made Yussi Weisz’s leek and olive…
Personal Honey Dishes for Your Rosh Hashanah Table
These little honey dishes for each person look great and keep the table neater–plus there’s no worries about double dipping!! Most of us love honey. And the Rosh Hashanah table is all about the honey! But what about the tablecloth? (The one in these images is “Paris” from Adorn.) Most of us have a honey…
Watermelon and Feta… Cake
Celebrate a birthday – or any special occasion – with a different kind of cake. Not everyone loves birthday cake. Is that blasphemous? For one of my kids, I try to come up with a different kind of “cake” for her birthday. Something she’ll really enjoy instead of just doing the cliched frosted cake. One…
