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This Chanukah: Feel Hashem’s Love in Your Heart
You know in your mind that He loves you. But you can really, really feel it in your heart too. We Klal Yisrael are called by a very special name in the Maoz Tzur composition—one that warms the heart, especially for us women: We’re called shoshanim, roses. Uminosar kankanim na’asah neis lashoshanim. This fragrant flower…
14 Ready-to-Fry Dinner Ideas
Need more special-for-Chanukah dinner ideas? We’ve rounded up our favorite family-friendly dinners that involve some frying (because if not now, then when?).
8 Ways: You Are the One Who Lights Up This World
Small acts, and big acts, all those little things that you do bring warmth and happiness to this world. Read below and recognize the good that you do and have potential to do, every single day. The little lights flicker in our windows, bringing us back to a time where the world had gone dark…
The Favor Game 2.0
There’s only winners in this easy-to-play game. A few years ago, Renee shared how her family plays a “favor game” for Chanukah. With the kids in my family having grown older, last year we took the game up a notch. Instead of everyone choosing one person for whom they need to do a favor, in…
Make from Scratch or Need a Hack? The Ultimate Chanukah Donut Roundup
Whether you spell it doughnut or donut, or whether you buy, make from scratch, or something in between, Hanukkah won’t pass without them landing on your table. There’s a perfect donut option for you below. Raise your hand if you make homemade doughnuts? This may be the most polarizing question we’ve asked on BCP. You…
Fun Crunchy Sesame Cucumbers
Everyone will eat these up because they’re so good (and they must be healthy because, after all, they’re cucumbers, right?). But they’re totally not. Anyways, it’s Chanukah, when everything has a little oil. So, people come to your Chanukah party, and they’re on a diet so they don’t eat the donuts. Instead, they eat the…
Chaya’s Chatzilim
There is nothing better than chatzilim with challah. Or sourdough. Ever since I bought my first Fresh and Easy cookbook, this is the recipe that I would prepare again and again without fail. How funny is that? Even the obsessive baking of Everything But The Kitchen Sink Cookies came later on. At that point, I…
Create a Chocolate Coin Napkin Ring
It’s super simple, couldn’t be easier to recreate, and looks beautiful no matter what. Some of the best hacks and ideas have come from readers like you. Sometimes the brilliant things that you do are so simple–but it’s precisely that simplicity that makes it work for everyone! Sometimes, those simple but brilliant ideas come from…
Dairy Donuts with Chocolate Cream Cheese Filling
Fill your store-bought donuts up with this cream cheese mousse for the most gourmet, delicious, dairy results. On Between Carpools, there’s lots of donuts that you can make from scratch. You can go with the favorite Yeshiva Donuts or Naomi TGIS’s Sufganiot. There’s also great hacks for making your donut dough in advance and freezing…
