Ah, that time of year is here again. Shlissel Challah. I always marvel at how enthusiastic we get when baking the first dough after Pesach. You’d think we would want to stay away from a measuring cup until July, but no. Here we are, filled with joy, pulling out or mixers, donning aprons and sprinkling…
Recipes
Hectic Morning? Banana Muffins to the Rescue
Are you rushing in the morning? Don’t have time for a healthy breakfast? These banana muffins will transform your day Some days we have time to prepare eggs with veggies or oatmeal pancakes, or even just a healthy smoothie for breakfast. On other days, breakfast has got to be simply grab-and-go. Most of the easy…
Make Homemade Mayo Without a Food Processor (simply because it’s the most delicious thing you can spread on your matzah)
If you have an immersion blender, you’re minutes away from easy mess-free homemade mayo Dips complement matzah really well. We’ve heard from lots of you who really enjoyed our Pesach dips during the first days. For those of you who skipped the homemade mayo because you don’t want to clean a food processor…well, here’s a…
Store Bought Look; Home Baked Taste: Get the Secrets to a Professional Roll Cake from Pastry Chef Margie Gross
Keep these delicious roll cakes in the freezer Roll cakes are very popular on Pesach and for good reason. When there’s so many meals and desserts to serve, often you want to pull out the cake you served yesterday. No matter how many times you slice a roll cake, it always looks complete and new….
Looking for the Ultimate Pesach Cholent (Gluten Free) ?
We don’t have barley. We don’t have beans. But we still have Shabbos comfort with this Pesach cholent. Reproduced from Perfect for Pesach permission from the copyright holders ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications, LTD. In order to make the “ultimate” Pesach cholent, I tried numerous versions over weeks and weeks but wasn’t so happy with the results. I…
Yapchik. With a Name Like That It Better Be Good.
And it is! Here’s the story of how I came to do it right. Yapchik: literal translation: potato kugel with a layer of meat in it. Not so literal translation: serious Jewish comfort food. For years the mere thought of Yapchik made me queasy. I might have tasted one that was way too heavy, or…
6 New Ways to Make Schnitzel This Pesach (Gluten-Free)
Welcome, variety! It’s probably the dish you’ll make most often this Pesach. Change it up and please the crowds with 6 new versions of Pesach schnitzel. By Personal Chef Ruth Bendkowski Schnitzel is always a staple for Pesach. It’s one of those things that are just always a hit and fly off the table. How…
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…
This Lemonade is My Family’s Pesach Tradition
I used to squeeze the lemons for lemonade as a young girl; now my own children have taken over. I think of Pesach back in Lugano, where I grew up, and the scent of lemon oil hits me immediately. Lemon oil is that oil that comes out of the lemon peel if squeezed too hard….
Don’t use processed ingredients on Pesach? Not a problem!
Updated! Pesach Recipes with the Basics – here we go! Updated March 2023 It’s the time of the year when I got lots of messages for people asking for me recipes I gave them last year. Years ago, I thought I was clever. I uploaded as many recipes as I could to cookkosher (a recipe…
