This tahini-chickpea dip is a great mashup of your favorite Shabbos staples. I love having a variety of dips on my Shabbos table. chummus, techina, my favorite tomato and eggplant carpaccio (will share a hack in a few weeks to make this easier to prepare!) are pretty much the basics every week. Since I like changing it up a bit,…
condiments and dips
Another Mayonnaise-Free Dip: Super Easy Olive Tapenade
It doesn’t get easier than this olive spread that goes with any bread from challah to sourdough. If your family is like mine, you want a variety of dips that are not mayo-based. This olive tapenade has just four ingredients and none of them is mayonnaise! The most important thing when making this tapenade is…
Go-To 3-Ingredient BBQ Marinades for Chicken and Steak
It’s so easy, it’s just about obvious. And yet, these simple marinades for grilled meats are always popular. Most Yomim Tovim, I cross one meal off my list of those I need to prepare by planning a simple grilled meal–and everyone loves it. I make this roasted vegetable salad (roasting the vegetables and preparing the…
Fill Your Fridge with Quick Pickles for Pesach Snacking
If you miss your savory snacks on Pesach, these pickles are an easy crunchy alternative to yet another bag of potato chips. Salty wins over sweet in my house – except maybe when it comes to chocolate. So last Pesach I decided to experiment with making some pickles for everyone to snack on instead of…
Do You Have Lids for Your Dip Bowls?
Wouldn’t you like to just cover your dip bowls on Friday night and then use them again without having to wash and refill them? On a recent chat amongst us here at Between Carpools, Victoria mentioned how she’d love dip bowls that have lids instead of washing them out after the seuda on Friday night…
How to Make Homemade Dairy Pastry Cream
You might even have all the ingredients to make this pastry cream already in your house! Earlier today, Esti Waldman shared this donut-filling hack. She even went so far as to arrange for The Peppermill to carry the fillings so you can get them with the hechsher. Read all about the store-bought fillings in this post….
Chummus Plates: Always A Crowd Pleaser + The Perfect Beginning To Any Meal
Here’s how to elevate your hummus/chummus plate (or how to keep it simple!). When it comes to feeding a crowd on Yom Tov, chummus plates are a great item to serve as an appetizer, or on the table alongside the appetizer. Everyone loves to dip challah into chummus. Make one to serve in the middle…
This Roasted Eggplant Salad is a Great Addition to Your Shabbos or YomTov Table
Bright and fresh flavors take this eggplant salad to the next level. There’s always something amazing cooking at my sister’s house. No, really. They have a very open home, so there’s usually someone cooking up something in the kitchen. And since her husband is a caterer from a family of caterers, it’s always worth peeking…
Basics: Make Your Own Amazing Hummus/Chummus
Hummus/Chummus can be the start of an amazing meal. And a great version is just a couple of minutes away… During photoshoots and meetings we discuss different things we’re cooking or doing and that usually becomes the content we write for BCP. If we need it now, it’s possible it will help someone else. During…
How to Make a Great Jalapeno Dip
It’s not too spicy, but it still has that kick. Is jalapeno one of your favorite dips on the Shabbos table? Now you can make it even better (and adjust the heat to your family’s liking!). Make adjustments by adding more jalapeno, or removing seeds from the one that’s included in the recipe. Jalapeno Dip…