Victoria Dwek
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The One-Outfit-Per-Bag Packing Trick
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Save space, stay organized, and prevent wrinkles when packing up your little kids. The first time I planned to go away for Pesach, the packing job that lay ahead of me seemed daunting. Though Pesach is only one week, it would be two weeks from the beginning of the trip until the end. Whenever I
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4 Ways to Use Our Pesach Pizza Dough (including…for pizza, of course)
This kosher-for-Passover pizza dough recipe will come in handy for more than just pizza Last year, I decided I wanted to create a Pesach pizza dough. I wasn’t happy with the matzah meal-concoction I’d mix together each year to make lehme b’agine (Syrian meat pizzas) each year. I needed something else. I also knew a
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The 3-Ingredient No-Bake Biscotti You’ll Make Over and Over This Pesach
This biscotti recipe seems like a miracle! No mixer, not even a bowl, and no oven required! I make this biscotti all year round, but it’s perfect for Pesach—and without that potato starch after taste. There’s one caveat to preparing a Pesach recipe in the middle of the winter. The all year round bags of
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How She Does It: Between Carpools Chats with The Anelis Group’s Elisheva Perlman
Q: First, can you tell us a little bit about your “work-life” and your “home life.” Ah. I wish the AND actually existed. Currently, the two are very much interwoven where I try to be a mommy first and an entrepreneur second. But I can’t say the two don’t cross over into one another…while cooking
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Why Make Your Own Baby Food? A How-To Guide
I thought I’d be the last person on earth to make baby food from scratch. But now I’m sold. When my second daughter reached six months of age, I was determined to make my own baby food. I had never done this before, never even considered it for my boys or my first daughter. The
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Midwinter Vacation/Staycation Ideas for Fun Times at Home
How do you recreate the vacation experience when you’re staying home? “What are we doing today?” I’ve barely opened my eyes when there are many more little eyes standing over me, asking me something I have no idea how I’m going to answer. All I can say to myself is, “Thank G-d these boys have
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When the Kids Learned They Had Another Brother
When is it appropriate to talk about a baby that didn’t live? And how and when do you tell your children that they had another brother? I don’t think about my first baby, born 11 months before my oldest son, that often. Baruch Hashem, the next few children came in quick succession. I never had
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The Winter S’mores Bar
No time to bake dessert? Warm up your winter melave malkah with a s’mores bar instead. A few weeks ago, while I was researching easy Chanukah party ideas for Whisk, I came across the concept of an indoor s’mores bar. And I was smitten. I’d be hosting my own Chanukah melave malkah in honor of
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How to Make a Ponytail That Stays Perfect All Day
This trick will ensure your daughter returns home looking as fresh as when she left Since my first few children were boys, I had a lot of time to look at little girls and think and dream of what I’d eventually want my first princess to look like. I knew my eventual girl would never
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How to Start a Basic Lanyard
Did you love creating lanyard bracelets as a kid? Did you call it Boondoggle or Scoubidou instead? No matter what you call it, your children will also enjoy it! I remember the camp days when we’d receive our lanyard strings…I always anticipated choosing the colors and then choosing which stitch I was going to create.
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