Cranberry Pumpkin Cheese Coffee Cake

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Pumpkin abound, this delicious coffee cake is studded with ruby-like cranberries and filled with a mixture of sweetly spiced pumpkin butter and vanilla and orange flavored farmer cheese. Serve it for breakfast or an afternoon pick me up and your family and guests will ooh and ahh and ask for more. Perfect for the Thanksgiving season, but can […]

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Khafush, Yemenite or Yemeni Bread

Khafush, Yemenite or Yemeni Bread   Print Prep time 1 hour 30 mins Cook time 50 mins Total time 2 hours 20 mins   Is Khafush Yemeni or Yemenite bread? It’s both or neither depending on whom you ask. Whether you call yourself Yemeni or Yemenite depends on your religion. Jews from Yemen usually refer […]

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Remembering Ka’aKa

Bagel smeared with cream cheese and topped with lox is the quintessential food with which American Jews break the Yom Kippur fast. Growing up in a Yemenite Jewish family in Israel, at the end of the fast, we first revived ourselves with a cup of ‘white’ coffee, spiked with ginger and other spices, into which […]

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Boulou, North African Bread

Boulou, Aromatic North African Bread   Print Cook time 30 mins Total time 30 mins   North African Jews traditionally eat boulou (North African Bread) during the Jewish High Holidays. This North African bread is eaten especially to break the Yom Kippur fast. This Boulou incorporates Libyan and Tunisian bread traditions. It bursts with aromas […]

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Tribes-A-Dozen’s Rosh Hashanah Round Apple-Date Hallah

Tribes-A-Dozen’s Rosh Hashanah Round Apple-Date Hallah   Print Cook time 40 mins Total time 40 mins   I created this recipe for Rosh Hashannah, the Jewish New Year. It incorporates apples and dates. Yemenite Jews, as other Mizrahi and Sephardi communities, customarily bless and eat dates, one of several ceremonial foods at a Rosh Hashanah […]

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