You won’t believe how much you’ll enjoy this refreshing, light fruity apricot dessert. I used to avoid all smooth foods, or as I called them, “baby food.” I always preferred food with texture and crunch. But my mother-in-law makes the most amazing apple pineapple sauce that everyone loves and I gave it a try: and…
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How to Cut Sweet Potato Fries – Step By Step
Learn how to cut your own fries and you won’t have to buy the pre-cut ones anymore. There’s no real secret to cutting pretty sweet potato – or regular potato – fries. Just take the time to do each step and your fries will look just like the ones you get at your favorite fast…
How to Make Your Own Diet Iced Tea for Pesach
Do you feel thirsty over Pesach because you can’t drink your Snapple? Well, that’s how I feel. Very thirsty. There was one Pesach, a few years ago, when I went driving around to 11 stores (Yes. ELEVEN) looking for the Kosher-for-Pesach “Nice” Tea. It wasn’t the same as my Diet Snapple, but it did keep…
This Crock-Pot Shredded Beef is an Amazing Make Ahead Meal
Shredded beef works for a Yom Tov meal…and it’s also a treat to come home to it on Chol Hamoed. It’s super easy to make too! If you have limited oven space available, a Crock-Pot is a great appliance to use to get your shredded meat cooked. In addition, on Chol Hamoed you can set…
How to Keep Grated Potatoes from Turning Brown
Now you can grate potatoes in advance for kugel and yapchik and they’ll stay white! For the times that Pesach leads right into Shabbos, I needed to come up with a way to have my potatoes grated in advance for this Yapchik. Previously, if I left grated potatoes in the fridge for more than an…
This Yapchik Is Our Pesach Go-To When There’s No Cholent
Miss your cholent over Pesach? You’ll look forward to this Yapchik instead all year. Nothing brings back memories like this Pesach Yapchik cholent. When I was growing up, I remember my siblings and I would fight over the crust. We waited to enjoy this all year! Recently, when talking to my BCP friends about Pesach…
This Refreshing, Crunchy Salad Is Exactly What You Need
With all those heavy dishes over Pesach, a light and superfreshing salad like this will be very welcome! We love this salad based off a recipe by Chef Einat Admony! One day, during a photoshoot, we were deciding what to prepare (or order) for lunch while prepping this salad. Once the photos were done, our…
Dips are Everything on Pesach. And this Eggplant Dip by Faigy Murray is Just-So-Good.
When you cook for Pesach, you start with the desserts, then move onto the dips. And this eggplant dip from My Pesach Kitchen should top the list. As a young girl, I never touched dips. My father would come home every week with containers and containers. I didn’t look at them. My mother made this…
Spread Some Homemade Nutella On Your Matzah
This Pesach, this chocolate hazelnut spread will be all you are going to want to eat. There’s something so delicious and addictive about this “Nutella,” you will have to ask someone to hide the jar for you. Use it as a spread over matzah, or warm it up a touch and drizzle it over some…
Finish Your Pesach Meal with Hot Chocolate Molten Cake
No matter which version you choose, Chocolate Molten Cake will be a classic make-every-year dessert. Usually I try to share the one best way I make something. When it came to Hot Chocolate Molten Cake on Pesach, I discussed it with everyone: which one do we feature? In the end, I couldn’t come to a…