A beautiful cutting board can be a piece of art for your kitchen, but you need to show it a bit of love. I love the look of a classic wood cutting board, and there’s no surface I’d rather use to cut up a whole lot of produce. There’s a very satisfying feel when the…
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21 Wedding Hairstyles Ideas We Love
Because we know you are busy enough, we collected a few hairstyle ideas for every girl in your family. With everything a wedding brings, between the endless last minute errands and never ending lists, you need to come up with a hairstyle for your 9-year-old. Something she loves, something you love. Something the hairstylist can…
10 Baby Gifts That Are Not Clothing
There’s not one stretchie on this list–but there are baby gift ideas in every price range. We’ve been there (and that’s why we’re writing this post!). You want to buy a baby gift–but you know said baby probably already has a complete layette and wardrobe. What’s a great baby gift that they’ll love and use–that…
Set Your iPhone Alarm Clock to Ring on Shabbos for Just One Minute
iPhones don’t have an alarm ring length option and nobody wants to hear an alarm clock ring for an hour! We love using our phone alarm clocks to wake us or just to remind us things at various times of the day. Who doesn’t have dozens of different alarms set up for different reminders?? A…
“A Perfect Shabbos Table”–It’s Not What You Expect
Do your dreams get crushed every Friday night when the Shabbos table fails to be the place of your dreams? This post was a conversation between the five of us on the topic of: the Shabbos table. Tables Have Stages “I remember, when my children were a bit younger, after a day of shopping and…
Shabbos & Money
Food has become more extravagant than ever–at the same time, it’s also more expensive than ever and budgets are stretched. So, there’s the question: is there such a thing as too much to spend on Shabbos? There’s a story in At Any Hour, the biography of Rav Shlomo Gissinger (p. 267): The Steinbergs* had just…
A Guide to Frozen Challah Dough
Fridays are getting shorter and you might move your challah-making to a different day–but you still want to bake fresh challos. A while back, we shared some hacks on how to make store-bought challahs look like your own. Some supermarkets sell pre-braided frozen raw challahs in pans on Thursdays and Fridays and they’re a great…
This Easy Molten Cookie Dessert Hack Takes Minutes to Prepare
Keep two ingredients on hand and have a crowd pleasing dessert ready in (almost) no time. Who doesn’t love a dessert that oozes extra chocolate?? These molten cookies are so easy to prepare that you can hand off the task to a young child. Preheat your oven to 350F. Start with 24 frozen cookie dough…
This Gluten Free Beef Risotto Can Become Your New Cholent
Easier on the stomach even for those who don’t have a gluten free diet, this risotto still has the classic Shabbos taste! We got this recipe from our friend who got it from her friend, who got it from her friend who created it because she wanted a lighter cholent. While some of us were…
Tips & Tricks to Help You Make an Early Shabbos
This is a roundup of different tips and tools we shared with you over the years that can help you be ready for Shabbos early. It’s not about how early you wake up. It’s about how prepared you are from the beginning of the week.
