kitchen tips
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Everything You Need to Know Before You Make Your Challah
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All our Challah tips, tricks, and recipes from throughout the years in one place. But that doesn’t mean that challah can’t be a great one. These great challah posts and tips should help you out.
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Which Pizza Cutter is the Best?
It might be a tool you bring out only on Thursday nights (unless you love meat pizzas too), but a good pizza slicer can make the task easier than others. We have lots of pizza recipes on Between Carpools. There’s versions of cheese pizza, healthier versions like Spelt Dough Pizza, and lots of different meat
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Print Your Recipes Like They Do at a Restaurant
It’s fun and more efficient to work like a line cook when you’re doing that pre-Yomtov cooking marathon. Do you like to cook directly from a recipe? Do you cook with open cookbooks on your counters? Flip back and forth to find the recipe you’ll be preparing next? And then maybe something you planned on
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Set Up a Portable Pantry for Pesach
There’s no need to empty out your regular pantries. Take the easier route with a temporary setupwith portable shelving like this. I have Covid to thank for this change in my Pesach prep. I have a nice walk-in pantry (yes, I know how lucky I am and I’m grateful for it every time I walk
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How to Dice That Red Onion into Really Tiny Pieces
No big chunks in my salsa or guacamole when I take the time to do it right! There’s no denying that red onion adds some zing to a salsa (like our favorite), some guacamole, or a chopped salad. But in my household, nobody likes when you can actually bite into the onion pieces. So I’ve
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How To Write A Menu
Or, really, how to do it once and repeat it every year. “Writing the menu is the hardest part of preparing for Yom Tov,” I have heard this sentence, or a variation of it, so, so, many times. There is definitely some truth to this statement. Writing a menu, like all lists, gives us a
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12 Tips on Making Pesach from a Big Sister
Between all of us, it’s crazy to think that we have many dozens and dozens of Pesachs behind us. There are some little tips that come to mind that make preparing for Pesach a bit easier! Find more Pesach Tips in these posts: Last Minute Things you NeedThe Complete Pesach Planning DownloadThe Pesach Kitchen Master
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How to Maintain Your Wood Cutting Boards
A beautiful cutting board can be a piece of art for your kitchen, but you need to show it a bit of love. I love the look of a classic wood cutting board, and there’s no surface I’d rather use to cut up a whole lot of produce. There’s a very satisfying feel when the
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Prep Ahead and Always Have Fresh Garlic Ready Without a Mess
Love cooking with fresh garlic? We’ve got a tip that will eliminate the messy garlic press from your dinner prep. While we love the convenience of frozen crushed garlic cubes, they don’t really measure up to freshly minced garlic prepared at home. And many of us are already buying the peeled garlic cloves at local
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Find Valuable Space You Didn’t Know You Had, And Put It To Good Use.
You just need the right container. Did you know that the insides of cabinet doors are forgotten real estate? Look around, analyze your cupboards. You will soon discover that you can “steal” precious space, in a way that is neat, and contained. Organized, as we like to call it. Medicine syringes and cups? Always a
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