Recipes

Let’s face it, the star of any Hanukkah meal is always the latkes. Those crispy, fried, salted potato...

Hanukkah Food, Jewish Holidays Food, Recipes, Side Dish, Vegetarian

Jewish-Italian Inspired Lemon-Ricotta Pancakes for Hanukkah

By Marcia Friedman

One of my favorite foods from my “adopted” Jewish heritage has to be potato latkes, particularly...

Dairy, Hanukkah Food, Jewish Holidays Food, Recipes, Vegetarian

The Right Way to Make Potato Latkes

If you have just been asked to make the latkes for your child’s classroom during Hanukkah or the family...

Hanukkah Food, Jewish Holidays Food, Main Dish, Recipes, Vegetarian

The Knish of Plenty: A Thanksgiving (Leftovers) Knish

Thanksgiving is a North American tradition that falls just at the end of the great harvest before the soil...

Main Dish, Recipes

Sweet Potato Pumpkin Cazuela for Sukkot

Sukkot is synonymous with fall fruits and vegetables which are often used to decorate the sukkah. No specific...

Jewish Holidays Food, Multicultural Food, Recipes, Side Dish, Sukkot, Sukkot Food

How To Make Traditional Rosh Hashanah Teiglach

Dessert, High Holy Days Recipes, Jewish Holidays Food, Recipes

Teiglach is an eastern European confection most closely associated with Rosh Hashanah. It was often served for...

Apples & Honey Pastrami Hash for a Sweet New Year

High Holy Days Recipes, Jewish Holidays Food, Recipes, Rosh Hashanah

In New England, beets give red flannel hash its sweetness and beautiful pink color. The sweet beets contrast...

How To Make 2 Farmer’s Market Pizzas At Home: Sweet & Savory

These farmer’s market pizzas take some of the most beautiful gems from the day’s trip to the market...

Cooking with Kids, Main Dish, Recipes, Vegetarian

Molten Chocolate Cookies for Tu B’Av

What better way to celebrate and #ChooseLove on Tu B’Av, the Israeli holiday of love which falls on Tuesday,...

Dessert, Jewish Holidays Food, Recipes, Tu B'Av

Tu B’Av Cherry Soup

Jewish tradition commemorated romance long before St. Valentine’s Day was established as a means to Christianize...

Picnic Friendly, Recipes, Tu B'Av

CSA Peanut Cabbage Slaw

As the mercury creeps ever higher on the thermometer, the last thing I want to do is turn on the oven and counteract...

Recipes

July Fourth BBQ Sauce

When I started dating my husband he was living in Atlanta, and through my visits down south I was introduced...

Picnic Friendly, Recipes

Fireworks Picnic Fried Chicken with Maple Dipping Sauce

In many Jewish households, Fridays are for chicken. A roasted chicken for Shabbat is as commonplace as fireworks...

Cooking with Kids, Main Dish, Picnic Friendly, Recipes

Sweet & Savory Palmiers for Papa: French Treats with a Twist

When I was about to enter second grade and my brother was about to begin Kindergarten, our parents packed our...

Cooking with Kids, Dessert, Recipes

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Choosing a Jewish Life – Fostering Jewish Peoplehood

By Jane Larkin

The Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education (CJPE) is a resource and catalyst for developing education about...

Dessert, Recipes

Bubbe’s Banana Bread Muffins

Cooking with Kids, Recipes

After dealing with the challenges of food in an interfaith family during the Passover and Easter season, it’s...

Spring Bone Broth with Potato Knaidlach

Matzoh ball soup is a staple in many Jewish homes and if you recently attended a Passover seder, you likely...

Main Dish, Multicultural Food, Recipes

Ice Cream Pyramids for Jon Stewart (and You)

Cooking with Kids, Passover Food, Recipes

Jon Stewart, born Jonathan Leibowitz, is one of America’s best known Jews, and also in an inter-faith marriage....

Passover & Easter Coexist in Southern Dry-Rub Brisket

There can certainly be challenges when melding two faith traditions, and at no time of year does that seem more...

Easter, Jewish Holidays Food, Main Dish, Passover Food, Recipes

Multicultural Weeknight Family Dinners

Every week my family travels around the world without leaving our dinner table. For some people the flavors...

Cooking with Kids, Main Dish, Multicultural Food, Recipes, Vegetarian

Easy Shabbat Ginger Sesame Roast Chicken

When I say “Shabbat Dinner” what comes to mind? For me, it always connotes roast chicken. While roasting a...

Main Dish, Picnic Friendly, Recipes, Shabbat Food

Sautéed Bok Choy

This bok choy recipe is a companion to my Ginger Sesame Roast Chicken, but pairs well with most meats. Ingredients 3...

Recipes, Shabbat Food, Side Dish, Vegetarian

It’s Not a Dilemma When it Comes to December Dinners