Leah Schapira
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The Creamy Dairy Mushroom Soup You Can Make Now and Freeze
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It’s thick and creamy and it’ll be the perfect addition to all those dairy dinners ahead. There is a restaurant in Israel called Alfredo, where they serve this soup in bread bowls. It’s that real, creamy dairy mushroom soup you always love to order at restaurants…but now you can enjoy it at home. And, yes!…
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Bath Time Activity! Show Your Young Children How to Blow Bubbles in the Bath
What do you do when you are a mom of just little ones and it seems at 3 pm that night will take forever to come? Get them into the bath and let them have some fun with bubbles! When you have older kids, they walk in between 4 – 6p.m. and break up the…
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Upgraded Roasted Vegetable Rice
Jazz up your side dish this Yom Tov with Roasted Veggie Rice. Side dishes. It’s the one dish that comes as an afterthought for most. And while you can totally serve plain rice, there is always something about serving things a bit upgraded for Yom Tov. This one even reheats nicely! And you can even…
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Your Teenagers Will Love This Notebook Hack
All notebooks look the same from the top. This hack makes it easier to kids to find what they need, fast. When we started BCP, for one moment we thought, “What would happen if we run out of hacks and tips?” So far, that hasn’t happened. What has happened, rather, is that our kids have…
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Do You Need to Sharpen Your Knives? Forget the Steel. This is the Easiest Way.
Have you been working with dull knives? Now you need no skill or know-how at all to get ‘em sharp again. If you use a better knife, then you might agree with me. Sharpening them is annoying. I tried using a sharpening steel, but it never really worked for me. I don’t know how to…
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This Hack Makes It So Much Easier to Pour Oil
Do you always pour too much oil when you want just a little bit? There are some hacks that seem so minor but they make your life so much easier. Like this tomato paste hack. Never again do you have to scrape out tomato paste from the can. You know that feeling when you grab…
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Grilled Onions are a Must-Add to Your BBQ

Are you grilling today? Add onions and eggplants to the grill first. Once you master grilling hot dogs, chicken and burgers, you are ready to up your BBQ game. All you need to know are a couple of tricks and hacks to go from simply grilling the basics to being able to put out a…
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Have Your Eggs Been Harder to Peel Lately?
Sometimes, hard-boiled eggs peel like a breeze, and sometimes it’s almost impossible. Every once in a while you boil some eggs that stubbornly refuse to peel. We wrote a post a while back on the best way to boil an egg (see this post) and in the last paragraph we mentioned – “And the cold…
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Have a Hot Sauce Fan at Home? Make Hot & Spicy Onion Rings
It’s two ingredients; simple as that! I have some kids who are completely obsessed with hot sauce, hot popper chicken, hot sauce potato chips…add hot sauce to any dish and they eat it. Since they love it so much, I came up with this quick 2 ingredient recipe for them that they polish off in…
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Your New Favorite (Gorgeous) Salad is Here: Green Salad with Citrus Dressing.
Make the dressing for this Green Salad in advance, and the rest pulls together in minutes (no major chopping). I have to say, it’s great to have team members like Esti and Renee style and shoot recipes for me. It makes my life so much easier. I gave them this green salad recipe we love,…
Filed under: RecipesTagged with: appetizers, brunch and lunch, dinner done, gluten free, healthy, lite, pareve, salads, Shabbos & Yom Tov, shalosh seudos, side dishes




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