I’ve made this loaf two weeks in a row now for Friday dinner, as Flick and I have hosted a record-setting four Shabbats in a row with friends. It is a far superior challah to another pareve recipe I made recently. This recipe uses a sponge starter with lots of eggs, and oil an...
I’ve made walnut bread once before, using a recipe from maybe The Bread Bible. It turned out quite dense and dry, so I haven’t tried to make it again. But with a Costco-sized Costco-purchased bag of walnuts on hand, I decided to try again. Many of the breads in Bread Alone cal...
I don’t remember why I wanted to make a nut tart, but I recall wanting a dessert made with maple syrup for Friday dinner with friends. I also got to use an oblong tin that I don’t often work with. The filling is very, very runny, and it’s not set with eggs so make sure any cra...
We still have a lot of Kahlúa in our liquor cabinet, and we also have a lot of espresso beans in the freezer. For Shabbat dinner, I made a coffee ice cream with chocolate shavings. While it turned out very tasty, it melted quite quickly, and I didn’t like the little bits of ch...
Frozen cranberries and a bunch of tiny not-so-sweet mandarins were the key ingredients for this loaf. I squeezed many of the little citrus fruits to get the required amount of juice, but used a regular orange for the zest. The only other substitution was yogurt and milk for th...
Frozen cranberries (courtesy of Costco) are available year-round, and I hadn’t had any muffins in a while, so I tried this newish recipe from Cook’s. It featured ground pecans and was a cinch to make since three of the steps involved the food processor. I didn’t actually proce...