Cooking Tips
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Easy To Braid Round Challahs For Rosh HaShana!
With Rosh HaShana just a week away, now is a great time to bake traditional round braided challahs for the holiday, with raisins of course! Thanks to some readers who left comments on my post showing how to braid these beauties, I realized that I ought to share some photos I took last year just…
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Cooking Beets, Beans And Brown Rice In A Pressure Cooker!
As a child I remember my mother cooking artichokes in a pressure cooker, oh and maybe corned beef, but that was about it as far as my knowledge of pressure cookers. Fast forward to today…..I am a busy mother who often cooks for a crowd, and I often ask other women for cooking tips as…
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Kids & Veggies: Try Fresh Zucchini Salad! (You’ll like it too!)
Not to brag, but my kids are big vegetable eaters. And truthfully all the hard work that has gone into achieving this wonderful state of being has been endless hours preparing all the fresh and cooked Moroccan salads that my husband introduced me to, and that we can’t live without! (see recipes here) My kids…
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Beets: Helpful Hints For Pesach Or Anytime!
I’m really glad that I’m giving away a copy of Tamar Ansh’s Pesach Anything’s Possible, because the information she has graciously shared with us, below is so useful! I never knew that one can freeze beets! Here’s what Tamar has to say about this: “Beets are one of those foods that for literally generations, has…
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Grated Vegetable Soup: A Great Recipe For Sneaky Moms!
A few years ago when we first moved into our new home a few very thoughtful neighbors sent over hot lunches for several days. One day we received a delicious soup that to my surprise consisted of broth and grated vegetables. We enjoyed the soup and I forgot all about this idea until my daughter…
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Rosh HaShana: Simply Elegant Table Decor For The New Year
Rosh Hashana is less than three weeks away, so it’s time to start thinking about how to enhance our family’s experience of the holiday with a little bit of creativity! A beautiful and memorable holiday table can be both inexpensive and simple to set. The key is planning ahead, making a few key purchases, and…
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Make Your Own Cooking Spray For Healthy Eating!
Cooking spray is a great way to reduce fat for healthier eating, but it’s relatively expensive here in Israel, and the aerosol spray brands available here don’t appeal to me. Not only that, the cans seem to run out so quickly! This morning as I was doing some research to double check a recipe, I…