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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Overnight Potato Kugel: So Delicious, and Now Presentable Too!
Because we finally figured out how to serve it without it looking like a sloppy mess. Did you ever wonder how to serve an overnight potato kugel without losing your Hungarian balebusta reputation? Ok fine, let’s not exaggerate. But also, these things really matter to me. I will not cook or serve something that isn’t…
Do You Wash Tons of Dishes Over Pesach? This May Help
Protect your hands and get the dishes really sudsy by using bristled gloves. Because many of us don’t use our dishwashers over Pesach, besides for the fact that there’s a lot of cooking crammed into a short period of time, the dishwashing chore is definitely intensified over Pesach. Last Pesach, this bar mat was a…
How to Prep Seder Essentials in Advance
Are you typically frazzled on erev Pesach because the Seder items were left until the end? It doesn’t have to be that way. First of all, before we start, we want to say that if your family has a minhag to prepare seder items on erev Pesach, we don’t want to mess! Perhaps it’s simply…
Pesach Banana Muffins
At first, I was really skeptical. But these banana muffins turned out to be the most delicious bring-along item. One day during our pre-Pesach prep last year, my daughter came home with a recipe. “I’m making these,” she said. “My friend made them and she said they’re really good!” “Banana muffins?” I thought. “We’re never…
Sliced Tongue in Tomato Sauce
If you like tongue, you will love this upgraded version of an old traditional dish. There is one sister that I try to visit on Yom Tov–but I also try to plan my visit for the day that she serves this amazing tongue so that I can take some leftovers home. You see, my bunch…
Roasted Eggplant Pepper Dip
You can get so much flavor from just a few, fresh ingredients in this chunky dip–no blending required. Each year, our favorite new discoveries over Yom Tov become next year’s new BCP recipes. And last year, after I made all the classic BCP favorite Pesach dips (as in Sweet Romanian Eggplant Dip, Creamy Avocado, Crushed…
Mini Fruit Pops
These Mini Fruit Pops are the best, most refreshing way to end a Yom Tov meal. Yom Tov meals are festive, joyous and at times… heavy. After an appetizer of these amazing pulled beef egg rolls, a soup and a main like this standing rib roast (I prepare it for Pesach the same way but…
Download and Print This Fun Pesach Money
Use it as an incentive for your kids to finish their pre-Pesach jobs or encourage involvement at the Seder. Last year, we discovered that the talented Yael Miller from Miller Creative also has a talented brother when she showed us this adorable Pesach money download he drew. Artist Yoshi Weiss is a staff artist for…
The Cleaning Olympics
Ready, set, go! Get to the finish line in a fun way while involving the whole family. With Pesach bearing down upon us, it’s all hands on deck in the effort to clean the house from top to bottom. It can get stressful if we aren’t careful to keep the temperature cool and comfortable. If…
