Rosh Hashanah is around the corner so it is appropriate to make recipes containing ingredients from the Simanim (symbolic New Years foods). Pomegranate molasses is a wonderful concentration [click to continue…]
As one reader recently observed, we all need more chicken recipes. I roasted these (see photo) chickens for Shabbat dinner this week. The California desert is spectacular this time of year. Spring is here
I must apologize, I have been meaning to give this recipe for some time, but you know how things go. Now that the end of the year is near its time to get caught up and start with a fresh slate, oh oh is that a mixed metaphor? Everyone truly loves this chicken and it [...]
Yom Kippur begins this coming Friday night, with an early dinner before sunset and then everyone rushing to synagogue or temple for Kol Nidre services. Yom Kippur continues until Saturday night an hour or so after sunset or when the rabbis determine that the Sabbath is actually over. At that moment, a holy person in [...]