I love when I am able to merge my husband’s Persian culture with my Jewish one. This was a perfect to do so with both Norooz (Persian New Year) and Purim just days apart. I decided to merge the two holidays in one treat – pistachio, cardamom, chocolate chip rugelach. Rugelach is a traditional Jewish…
Category: Purim
Kulich – a Russian Purim Challah
They tried to kill us…we survived…let’s eat! Ah, the story of many a Jewish holiday. And Purim is no exception. The most familiar food is hamantaschen, or Haman’s hats. Russian Jews also make a sweet Challah braided to symbolize the rope Haman was going to use to hang Mordechai, but was instead used to hang…
Chocolate & Peanut Butter Hamantaschen
With Purim coming on Thursday, Sunday was Hamantaschen baking day. I decided to make 2 different types this year, date-filled and Chocolate & Peanut Butter. The CPB’s came out surprisingly well. The texture is great, it is like eating a cookie version of a reese’s cup. The dough itself was delicious, just the perfect amount…
Salmon “Hamentaschen”
Happy Purim! I saw the recipe for these savory hamentaschen and I could not resist trying them! Honestly, I was not expecting much, it was ust the novelty that I was going for, but to my great surprise, they were really, really good! The only change I made was to make the cucumber-dill sauce as…
Hamentaschen
My last post was about needing to lose my winter weight, so it may seem odd for the following post to be about sweets. But it is time for Purim, and that means hamentaschen! Luckily, one of the traditions of Purim is to give gifts of food, so pretty much all that we bake will…
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