There are some traditional items we do not mess with! These blintzes are here to stay, just as they are. Every family seems to have their own Yom Tov recipe that has become a tradition, and this is ours. It’s one of those family nostalgic recipes that my mother has been making for forever. It…
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Dairy Caramel Apple Galette
You might want to make a triple batch (count on one galette being finished when it comes out of the oven). (Plus: This is an egg-free dessert.) There’s a few special things about this galette. One: dairy pastry dough. When else do you get to enjoy a dough made with real butter? It’s worth it,…
Basics: Homemade Caramel Sauce
Sure, you can buy it. But a homemade caramel sauce is just so good and satisfying. (Plus! No special equipment needed.) When you make caramel by yourself, you can taste the simplicity and purity. Plus: Caramel lasts a long time in the fridge, so you can even make it now for Shavuos. First, combine the…
Easy Summer Corn and Feta Salad
Enjoy it for Shavuos and then again and again all summer long. This fresh and bright salad will become a shalosh seudos favorite! We love corn on the cob in my house. And sometimes we buy too much of it. One Friday last summer we had a few extra ears that had to be cooked…
Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Squares
Chocolate chip cookies. Cheesecake. It’s really such a classic combination. This is an easy one you can stick in your freezer today and check off your list. Really, the concept is simple and it’s not new. Chocolate chip cookie dough on the bottom. Cheesecake filling. More chocolate chip cookie dough crumbled on the top. It…
Pizza, Cheese, or Broccoli Calzones
They’re easy to make ahead and the reward is crispy edges and cheesy, oozing filling. I don’t know why this is particularly a Syrian thing, but baby pizzas are a staple (perhaps because they’re the dairy alternative to lehme b’agine?). They’re at every formal dairy meal and break-the-fast. The mini versions are perhaps more common…
Basics: Mac and Cheese
It really never gets old. Ever. We are definitely a noodle family. While my boys have outgrown the “pasta and only pasta” stage, they still don’t mind a fresh bowl of something cheesy and hot. The girls, however, still celebrate when pasta is on the menu and greatly prefer it over anything else. There are…
How to Prepare a Pizza in an Ooni Pizza Oven
If you’re more passionate about pizza than grilled meats, the Ooni is the item you want on your deck. What’s great about the Ooni pizza oven? It’s as convenient as a classic grill, and makes amazing pizza in minutes. If hot dogs and hamburgers don’t get you excited, but pizza does, the Ooni is a…
Frozen 9×13 Chocolate Bar Ice Cream
It’s sweet, it’s salty, and it’s the perfect ice cream treat to pull out for shalosh seudos (feeds a crowd!). I was in the supermarket one Friday afternoon – I had already gotten everything I needed. Then, just as my cart rounded the corner of the freezer aisle, something behind one of the doors caught…
The Perfect Shalosh Seudos: An Avocado Toast Bar
Do you want a special meal without extra advance prep? Serve delicious avocado toast for seudah shelishit. Back in the wintertime, when Shabbat was short and it was very, very hard to get down 2 ounces of bread come seudah shelishit time, I shared with my Whisk readers that I realized something had to change….