Monthly Archives: September 2010
Teiglach
I’ve been planning to make teiglach for the past couple of weeks, but with the Bay Area in a heat wave I was trying to avoid turning on my stove for the required hour. With Simcha Torah coming up tomorrow … Continue reading
Filed under Ashkenazi, Dessert, Holidays, Parve, Rosh Hashana, Simcha Torah, Sukkot
New Fruit for Sukkot
I was going to do a “what to do with your leftover etrog” post for Sukkot but discovered from the folks over at the Jew and the Carrot, that actually eating the etrog may be a bad idea. It turns … Continue reading
Filed under Breakfast, Dessert, Fruit and Vegtables, Holidays, Sukkot
Grilled Chicken Liver and Figs
So I’m still slightly obsessed with figs and was attempting to come up with some creative uses for them. As you may have noticed in previous posts that Gordon and I really like chicken liver. (The rest of the Heathens … Continue reading
Filed under Fruit and Vegtables, Holidays, Israeli, Meat, Snout to Tail, Sukkot, Yom Kippur
Honey Baked Apples for Rosh Hashana
As I’m sure most of you know, one of the traditions of Rosh Hashana is to eat apples dipped in honey to symbolize the sweetness of the new year. I personally like to make apple based desserts to incorporate this … Continue reading
Filed under Dessert, Fruit and Vegtables, Holidays, Rosh Hashana
A fruity toast to the New Year
A proper New Year’s celebration often includes the symbolic consumption of a fruit that you have not yet tasted this season. Pomegranates are often used as they are just reaching their full ripeness at the end of summer. Often this … Continue reading
Filed under Drinks, Fruit and Vegtables, Gadgets and Gear, Holidays, Rosh Hashana
Its that time of year again
As you may have noticed the posting activity around here has virtually disappeared the last several months. It turns out that every single one of the heathens have joined the ranks of the gainfully employed. Given that when we started … Continue reading
Filed under Holidays, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur
