Updated! Pesach Recipes with the Basics – here we go! Updated March 2023 It’s the time of the year when I got lots of messages for people asking for me recipes I gave them last year. Years ago, I thought I was clever. I uploaded as many recipes as I could to cookkosher (a recipe…
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The Cleaning Products That Will Make Your Life Easier
Cleaning for Pesach is hard enough (especially for those of you who do want to do it perfectly and get rid of the dust too). You may as well use the products that make it easier! As simple as they are, intuitive cleaning products really do makes our lives easier (and homes cleaner and hence,…
3 More Ways to Use Your Food Processor
You don’t need a mixer…you’ll even save yourself lots of chopping time. Let the food processor do these 3 jobs. The first few years I made Pesach I didn’t yet own a stand mixer (this year is actually the first time a mixer is included among my Pesach equipment!). All those years, I made lots…
This Never Gets Old. The Classic Apple Pear Crumble for Pesach.
It’s everyone’s favorite. Just heat up the apple pear crumble, grab some ice cream, and you’re golden. Did you know you can buy nuts directly from the Nuts Galore/Golden Fluff factory at 118 Monmouth Ave, Lakewood, NJ 08701? Get the freshest nuts at a great discount! For bulk nuts, there is a 3 lb minimum…
The First Thing You Need To Bake? Definitely This Pesach Cake
Can a Pesach chocolate cake be better than a chametz one? It’s the one cake my children will all agree on, Pesach or not. Chocolatey and dense, it makes you wonder why you don’t bake this year-round. Truth is, I prepared one this past Friday (the Friday after Purim) just to make sure all my…
How to Take Apart and Clean Almost Anything
Learn how to get into those spots where the most crumbs reside with easy how-to videos to clean almost anything. “Dust is not Chometz and Children aren’t the Korban Pesach”. Did you know that there are thousands of videos and instruction pages online that show you how to take apart appliances, clean ovens, reassemble those…
The 3-Ingredient No-Bake Biscotti You’ll Make Over and Over This Pesach
This biscotti recipe seems like a miracle! No mixer, not even a bowl, and no oven required! I make this biscotti all year round, but it’s perfect for Pesach—and without that potato starch after taste. There’s one caveat to preparing a Pesach recipe in the middle of the winter. The all year round bags of…
Are You a Procrastinator? Especially When It Comes to Cleaning for Pesach? We Know Why.
4 reasons you might procrastinate…and how you can get that motivation to get going. Pesach is definitely coming, and Pesach waits for no woman! It’s a fact on the calendar and it’s approaching faster than it’s possible to believe time can move. How can that be? It seems like just yesterday it was Tu B’Shvat….
The Easy Way to Toivel Flatware (or anything small)
You’ll never lose another spoon again with this great toiveling tip Why didn’t I think of this years ago?? Riiiiight?? This idea is sheer genius. So easy and quick. Just dump all your new flatware in a mesh bag or two (prepare this at home) and your toiveling is done in two minutes flat. Oh,…
The Life Changing Magic of Marie Kondo. Also, How I Finally Organized My Belongings, Once and For All
Do you like getting rid of stuff or do you like saving things? I thrive on throwing things out. Give me a trash bag and I will make stuff disappear. No, don’t worry, I won’t just throw away perfectly good items (those I will make sure to give to someone who needs/wants it). I am…
