If you get stumped when it comes to appetizers over Pesach, you’ll love how these basics come together in this pretty salmon dish. As moms, we always wish our kids be better than us. And while that wish is usually spiritual, we’re thrilled when it’s in any aspect. Once my girls grew up, I realized…
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Easy Homemade Tomato Jam
Savory and sweet, this jam is delicious on matzah or sourdough. After having tomato jam at a restaurant a few years ago, I was hooked. And when I came across the recipe for Tomato Jam Salmon in Adeena Sussman’s Shabbat cookbook, it became a family favorite. That recipe calls for some ingredients that we don’t…
Homemade Instant Vanilla Pudding for Pesach
If you are making a recipe that calls for vanilla pudding powder, but you don’t use it, here’s a handy swap. Last year, we published this Meltaway Babka from Rivky Kleiman here on Between Carpools. It was a super popular recipe that both our readers (and us personally!) really enjoyed. The recipe calls for a…
Chewy Chocolate Chip Pesach Cookies
Make these Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies from Pesach Secrets from Batya’s Kitchen and download Batya’s Pesach Shopping Checklist. Editor’s Note: We’ve personally known Batya as the Pesach cooking expert well before Between Carpools even existed (Victoria originally interviewed her in 2012!) and we shared some of her freezing tips in this post on How to…
Marble Cake For Pesach
You’ll want to bake this light and delicious Marble Cake for Passover every single year. Over the years, Devoiry Kalish has always reached out to share different popular recipes she thought BCP readers would enjoy. You might remember some of the most popular, like Incredible Apple Cobbler Cinnamon Bun Pie or these No Mixer Cinnamon…
Strawberry Shortcake Pops
The blend of sorbet and ice cream topped with golden streusel crumbs is the perfect, refreshing ending to a Pesach meal. While I know that many people like to bake lots for Pesach to fill that pastry gap, when it comes to choosing desserts, my family always prefers something light and refreshing. While of course…
Pesach Lemon Wafer Bars
They’re refreshing and light, and these Lemon Wafer Bars just might become an annual staple in your home too. Sometimes, it’s ironic how we come to begin making the recipes that have become our staples. These Lemon Bars were originally featured in Passover Made Easy by Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek, and for some reason,…
Homemade Tomato Sauce
When using minimal ingredients on Pesach, tomato sauce can be a great way to add flavor. Pesach is a time when we get creative in the kitchen. For those who use minimal or no processed products, it’s also a time when we appreciate the year-round conveniences of canned tomato sauce and tomato paste, and store-bought…
The 9×13 Life: Sautéed Onions
Let your oven “fry” your onions for you. Do it in bulk and get it done now. You’ll end up with lots of golden onions and not a pot to clean. We always hear that, in order to make our Yom Tov easier, we should sauté a huge pot of onions and freeze them, pulling…
31 Easy Ways to Make the Purim Seudah a Great Meal.
The glue gun is working overtime, the Amazon packages are still coming, and you’re a little panicked about the boxes that you didn’t know needed assembling. But Purim is coming and it’s time to plan that seudah with these crowd-pleasing ideas. Plus, they’re ideas that take less time vs. more.










