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One of the things I love about being back in California is the wide variety of fruit and produce available here. It is December and we have all kinds of vegetables growing in the garden. I love walking around the neighborhood and looking at all of the different fruit trees. One of my favorite trees [...]
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Now that it is September I guess I can no longer pretend that Rosh Hashana isn’t right around the corner. But it is fast approaching. When the wonderful people at Kosher Eye asked me to give them a dessert recipe worthy of ending a Rosh Hashana meal I knew that it had to be something [...]
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One thing I can’t seem to wrap my head around since we moved to California is just how amazing all the fruit is. I grew up here, so it shouldn’t be so shocking to me, but I just don’t remember it being this good. Maybe it is because I just took it for granted before. [...]
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Things have been a bit hectic around here, so my posting schedule has been a bit off lately. The chaos has been caused by all good things, like my husband being ordained as a rabbi and us preparing to move to California, but it still leaves little time for anything else. I will try to [...]
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Mother’s Day is the holiday I most associate with brunch. Birthdays, anniversaries and other days celebrating individuals are celebrated differently by different people. But there seems to be a universal agreement that Mother’s Day should be celebrated with brunch. Preferably outdoors. Maybe I think that because that is just how we always celebrated it growing [...]
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This time of year I often find myself feeling like my body needs a bit of detoxing. After all of the overindulgence of the holidays fresh lighter foods seem more appealing to me than their heavier counterparts. The same goes for desserts. Don’t worry, I will be back to making insanely rich decadent things soon, [...]
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Trifle is one of my favorite desserts. A layered dessert consisting of sponge cake, fruit, and pastry cream, there is something both elegant and comforting about it at the same time. I love the interplay of textures and flavors, and the beauty of layers in a clear glass bowl gets me every time. Until recently [...]
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A few weeks ago someone emailed me asking if I had any good “plain” parve pound cake recipes. I wasn’t much help since I had never made a parve pound cake, but it did make me realize I needed to remedy that situation. I tend not to make simple cakes like pound cake, which is [...]
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Growing up we had a large pippen apple tree right outside the kitchen window. It was prolific, to say the least, and the apples were often on the tart side for eating which made them perfect for baking. Except for the years when my dad was trying to perfect his apple tarte tatin recipe the [...]
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