What Do Tahini and Fried Green Tomatoes Have Got to Do with Deuteronomy 20:19-20?

The world outside the kitchen window is a medley of autumn colors, shades of green, yellow, orange, and brown all enveloped by an opaque gray sky, like in a fuzzy blanket.  With the trees standing mostly naked, the brilliantly hued leaves rest on the ground. Dead, they will enrich the soil, enabling next spring’s new […]

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Memories of Summer: ‘Organic Enough’ Red Tomato Sauce, Frederick the Mouse, and Should You Buy Small and Local Whenever You Can?

Last week I awoke to a beautiful, slate gray morning, and a constant drizzle. It was the kind of dark, wet day that could make one frown and go back under the covers.   But I come from people who pray for rain, and the day brought with it a shift in energy that renewed and […]

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The Imperfect Triple Hallah and How the Light Got Out

The double Hallah Can Imperfection Be Perfect? When Janet came to choose from the two ceremonial Hallahs I baked for her daughter’s Bat Mitzvah celebration, she had already known that I was disappointed with the outcome.  The double Hallah I baked first turned out to be smaller than I had envisioned, so I baked a […]

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Set Yourself Free; It’s Time to Wipe the Slate Clean…I ask forgiveness

If by any deed or omission thereof, if by any word or lack thereof, I caused hurt to any person, the Earth and it’s other inhabitants.  I will aspire to do better in the coming year.

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It Slowly Bakes in the Oven All Night Long. Is it Cholent? No,it’s…

Not Cholent (an overnight slowly cooking Jewish stew)! It’s Hallah Bread Pudding!  Two freshly-baked, heavenly Hallahs are lounging expectantly on the counter, waiting to go stale to meet their fate of, after slowly simmering overnight in a sweetly scented, creamy pool, becoming a scrumptiously delicious, if short-lived, Hallah Bread Pudding.  We’ll take it to break […]

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