As Rosh Hashanah approaches this year, I am being drawn to cooking with the traditional foods – dates, honey, apples… So, I decided to make a date challah for this Shabbat. Here’s what it looked like when I did the original post in 2013: I made just a couple of tweaks when I made it…
Category: Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur
A Great High Holiday Breakfast – Dried Fruit Compote with Yogurt
I start every day with 2 dried figs or dates, I have for at least 10 years. Not by themselves, but with whatever other item I am eating for breakfast. Breakfast does not feel complete without my dried fruit. The Monday Morning Cooking Club recently posted a recipe for Kompote as a dessert for Rosh Hashanah. …
Another Persian-flavored Rosh Hashanah – Saffron and Pomegranate-Glazed Chicken
I can’t seem to resist cooking with pomegranate syrup at Rosh Hashanah. This year, I am making a saffron and pomegranate glazed chicken. The chicken is beautiful; it is so deeply colored (look at that red!) and richly flavored. My only problem is being in the condo without my serving dishes, so I am making do…
Honey Date Cake
We had a delicious honey date cake for dessert during Rosh Hashanah. I usually don’t like honey cakes, but I actually made a big mistake while making the cake and added twice the honey than I was supposed to. I made other adjustments to the recipe to counteract the extra honey and the cake was…
Sweet Potato Kugel
We had a bountiful sweet potato harvest this year. Not only are they plentiful, they are huge! So I guess you will be seeing a bunch of sweet potato posts this fall and winter. To start off with, I made a sweet potato kugel for Rosh Hashanah. I loved the flavor, but the cayenne…
Date Glazed Orange Chicken
I want to share a recipe I used for one of our Rosh Hashanah dinners. It has wonderful flavors, but was simple to make so it could be made for any dinner where you want to enjoy the flavors of dates and oranges. It does take a little prep ahead of time. The first…
Cousin Bentzi’s Noodle Kugel
How many ways can you say “yum!”? I think this may be my favorite noodle kugel recipe ever. I guess is should give you some context. My cousin Bentzi lives in Israel and we have never met. But we have bonded over our mutual love of cooking and feeding people. He sent me his recipe for…
Challah Project # 11 – Raisin Honey Challah
After making what we decided was the perfect challah for Rosh Hashanah (Brown Sugar Challah with Pomegranate Glaze) about 3 weeks before Rosh Hashanah, I couldn’t make it again for the actual holiday, it was too soon for a repeat. So, I decided to try an experiment for our ‘real-time’ holiday challot. I had plenty of high-gluten…
Honey Cookies
I love Rosh Hashanah. And I love eating honey: honey and apples, honey in the challah, honey on the challah, honey apple cake, honey on my chicken… honey, honey, honey! Of course that also means local honey. Luckily we have a lot of local honey to choose from. These are just a few that happen…
The Challah Project #10 – Brown Sugar Challah with Pomegranate Glaze …Perfect for the High Holidays
I really enjoy making special Challahs for the High Holidays. Two of my favorites are Date Challah and Apple Cinnamon Challah; but now we may have a new favorite – Brown Sugar Challah with Pomegranate Glaze! It is beautiful on the outside and sweet and enticing on the inside.It captures the wishes for a sweet year and just brings…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 