Chia seeds are popping up all over the place in all kinds of recipes. (Yes, the same chia seeds of ch-ch-ch-chia fame) They are being touted as the forgotten superfood, full of all kinds of essential nutrients that will give people more energy and better health. While I am sure there are a lot of [...]
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One of the things that is tricky on Passover is coming up with good portable snacks. The kids are off of school which means I don’t have to worry about packing lunches, but I still need snacks for all of our outings. Sure, we eat a lot of nuts, dried fruit, and string cheese but [...]
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One of my favorite flavor combinations is raspberry and chocolate. The sweet/tart quality of the raspberry perfectly cuts through richness of the chocolate making for a wonderfully balanced dessert. This is especially important with parve baking. It is easy to make intensely rich parve desserts but it is a bit more difficult to make desserts [...]
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With Passover just two weeks away my Seder planning is in full swing. Besides all of the food planning and shopping one of the major things I think about in planning the seders is how to keep the participants engaged. Especially when they belong to the five and under crowd. According to the Gemara one [...]
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This year I finally made a Passover tart crust that I think is good enough to serve. I have tried various crusts over the years, but they all have tasted too “pesach-y” to me so didn’t want to use them. This year I decided to use some of the ratios and methods I use in [...]
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When I was a growing up I never felt deprived on Passover. Quite the opposite in fact. In an effort to make sure the kids didn’t feel like Passover was too much of a hardship my normally health conscious mother would fill the pantry with all kinds of sweets and treats we didn’t usually get [...]
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