Passover Recipe | Poached Peach & Chicken Salad

Poached Peach Chicken Salad pic

In the months leading up to Pesach, I often look at my Shabbat table and think to myself, “Wow – look at that. This whole meal, minus the challah, could be served on Passover.” Fish or chicken, a quinoa pilaf, and loads of fresh salads. And yet come Pesach, I inevitably find myself in a [...]

Pizza Hamantashen

pizza hamantashen

Thursday night is pizza night at our house. Last night as I was rolling out our crusts, I had a brainstorm! If you can make a half moon-shape stuffed pizza and call it calzone, why not a triangle shape and call it: Pizza Hamantashen. So that’s just what we did! Followed up by hamantashen with [...]

Hamantashen Recipe with Sprinkles

sprinkle hamantashen

It may be a fast day, but here in Kansas City, it’s also a snow day. And that means we’re warming up our kitchen by baking a batch of hamantashen. Now, to be completely honest, I am not the hamantashen’s greatest fan. Dry dough? Prune and poppyseed filling? Meh. I’ll pass. But throw in some [...]

Strawberry Oatmeal Smoothie Recipe

Strawberry Oatmeal Smoothie

Since posting my January menu plan, a number of you have written to ask me about my breakfast smoothies. Over the next month, I will be sharing some “recipes” to my favorite smoothies, for those of you that would like to start your day this way as well. Last week, I shared my orange creamsicle [...]

Bread Machine Challah

bread maker challah

I first shared this bread machine challah recipe over two years ago, when I was just starting the blog. So much has changed since December of 2010 – including the number of egg yolks in my challah recipe! You see, my original recipe called for five yolks – YOLKS, but somewhere along the way, I started [...]

Orange Creamsicle Smoothie Recipe

oragne creamsicle smoothie

Since posting my January menu plan, a number of you have written to ask me about my breakfast smoothies. Over the next month, I will try to share some “recipes” to my favorite smoothies, for those of you that would like to start your day this way as well. Today I am sharing one of [...]

January 2013 Menu Plan

January Menu Plan

I can’t believe there are just two days left in 2012! Where did the year go? It’s true what Erma Bombeck said – the days are long, but the years are short! Anyway, I just hammered out my family’s menu plan for January 2013. At many of your requests, I have included breakfasts and lunches [...]

Apple Fritters for Chanukah

Apple Fritters: Delicious & Dairy Free

I love eating sufganiyot for Chanukah. But I don’t always love making them. Scratch that. I like making them, but the rise time is a major bummer. So last night, when I had a hankering for something fried, but didn’t want to wait a few hours for my yeast dough to rise, I had a [...]