Category Archives: Passover
Bubbe Julie’s Pesadik Kamish
My Bubbe (Yiddish word for grandmother) Julie is unstoppable. At 90 years old, she is still maintaining a three-story house, driving her car around Vancouver, and cooking up a storm. When my family and I are in town, we eat … Continue reading
Dad’s Matzo Brie (Fried Matzo)
We heathens are introducing a new category today: “Mishpoke” or family. It turns out some of our kin wanted to write about their recipes in their own voice, and given that they dealt with us during our teenage years, we … Continue reading
Hillel’s Kosher for Passover BLT Sandwich
Korech, Hillel’s sandwich at the Temple. It is said that when the Temple still stood in Jerusalem Hillel would combine matza, maror and the Pesach lamb into one in order to observe the mitzva of eating the sacrifice on matza … Continue reading
Passover Pomelo Bars
Think lemon bar, but not. What’s a pomelo? Wikipedia holds lots of fun facts about this Southeast Asian native fruit, but for the sake of simplicity: biggest citrus, grapefuit-esque but sweeter, DELICIOUS. I was inspired to create a Passover recipe using … Continue reading
Charoset
Ahh… Charoset… the glue that hold the Passover seder together. Or more figuratively, the mortar our enslaved ancestors used to hold the pyramids together and an essential item for your seder plate. I have yet to come across anyone who … Continue reading
Matzah Candy
So I actually made a batch of this over a month ago for a friend and almost forgot that I had promised to post the recipe in time for Passover. I make this delightfully simple matzah based candy every year, … Continue reading
DIY Matzah
“Lo! this is the bread of our affliction.” That line comes from the Passover Seder Service or Hagadah (meaning a recitation). Now after a week of eating this stuff you may feel afflicted, but that is a result of not … Continue reading
Chocolate Orange Truffles for Passover
This weekend I was headed to a potluck Oscar party at my friends Penny and Bill’s house. Penny is a wonderful cook and Bill might be even more obsessed with Cooks Illustrated than I am. Penny asked me to bring … Continue reading
The 100th Post! Chopping up a baby lamb
Can we get a syndication deal now? As a slight change of pace and in preparation for Passover, Gordon and I signed up for a lamb butchering class taught by the amazing Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats. In true heathen … Continue reading
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