A shortbread cookie, cheesecake layer, tart apples, oat crumble, generously topped with caramel–it’s a combination that’s too good to pass up. This isn’t a new recipe. I’ve been making these in the bar version for years. But I never thought to share because, one, this dessert is not my idea. It’s a classic popular dessert…
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Personal Honey Dishes for Your Rosh Hashanah Table
These little honey dishes for each person look great and keep the table neater–plus there’s no worries about double dipping!! Most of us love honey. And the Rosh Hashanah table is all about the honey! But what about the tablecloth? (The one in these images is “Paris” from Adorn.) Most of us have a honey…
4 Steps to Life-Altering Habit Hacks
How to leverage “Atomic Habits” this Elul to make the habit changes you want to stick. It’s that time of year. Opening the door to crisp cool mornings, kids flying out of the house with snacks and homework in hand, settling in for the long year ahead. And wondering. What will the new year bring?…
Pomegranate Salad with Quinoa
An absolutely delicious and vibrant salad with fresh pomegranate – it’s the perfect, healthy, and seasonal dish you want to include in your Rosh Hashanah menu. This recipe is making it to you through a roundabout way. First, Leah was by her sister-in-law and ate a delicious salad. When she asked for the recipe, her…
Pomegranate Ice Cream
Elevate the flavors of ice cream with this perfect-for-Rosh Hashanah easy to prep ice cream dessert. Before the days of Between Carpools, I used to share my original recipes in Mishpacha and Ami magazines and any adapted recipes I shared (with permission) on my food website called cookkosher.com. A few years ago, cookkosher kept crashing….
The No-Mixer Honey Cake
Mix it in a bowl, then bake it in a Bundt or loaf pan. This is the easiest honey cake you will ever make! This recipe started out as a 9 x 13 idea. We said, “Let’s see if we can create a 9 x 13 version of a honey cake?!” So we made one….
Why We Let Go and How to Move On
“Machul Lack,” you are forgiven! Why forgiveness benefits us more than it benefits them. As we beg Hashem for forgiveness for all that we have done over the past year, we seek as well to forgive those who have wronged us and to ask forgiveness from those we have wronged. The older we get, the…
Keeping Hashem in the Picture
How to get in the right frame of mind during the hustle and bustle of these days. Once again, we launch at dizzying speed into the September season. No sooner have we recovered from the between-camp-and-school maelstrom, then it’s school supplies and shoe-store mobs and Oh! What’s on the menu for Rosh Hashana this year? …
Sina’s Pomegranate Challah
This is a beauty. Make them as rolls, or as a pull-apart challah for a special start to the Rosh Hashanah meal. We know Sina Mizrahi for having a knack for making everything just more beautiful. So when she played around, and instead of making regular challah, made Pomegranate Challah for Rosh Hashanah, we wanted…
Before You Daven Say Please and Thank You
Change the way you connect to Hashem over the Yomim Noraim. When Hadassa shared this concept on her platform, we were struck by how simple, yet life-changing, it could be. And we knew we wanted to share it with you. Before you even open your machzor for Rosh Hashanah, you should be thinking about what…
