Entries tagged with 'Passover'
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If you didn't get enough gefilte fish over Passover, which ends today, here's a new one: deep-fried gefilte fish. Following the golden rule of everything's more palatable deep-fried, the fish patty moves from a jar of jiggly broth to a vat of bubbling fat juices. Phyllis of me hungry! was inspired after her husband took a whiff of the stuff plain: He’s never been a fan of processed food, and he likes his food served warm. So he offered up a novel suggestion, 'Could you maybe deep fry it for me?' Funny that he should ask—I just finished reading an article about deep fried gefilte fish, which is apparently quite popular in the UK. Deep frying makes everything delicious but...
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This tour of the Aviv matzo factory in Bnei-Brak, Israel, has everything you could want in a video about making matzo: an enthusiastic host who converses with his own narration and makes silly jokes, plenty of cartoonlike sound effects, and random pop-up notes with facts about the factory. This is officially my favorite video about matzo. Watch the matzo go from dough to box after the jump....
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Here are some last-minute recipes for those chowing down at Seder tonight, or for any Passover meal during the next eight days. We even have a couple from Ed's wife Vicky who pulled out the family heirloom recipes—on index cards!—for this. Moonstrips (Onion-Poppy) Matzo Brei Vicky's Charoseth Fennel, Olive, and Citrus Salad Fava Bean, Asparagus, and Green Bean Salad Thyme-Roasted Sweet Potatoes Cauliflower-Potato Curry (Aloo Gobhi) Perfect Roast Chicken with Pomegranate Jus Boiled Brisket Vicky's Macaroons Baking With Dorie: Creamy Cream Cheese Cheesecake For Passover—Or Not Flourless Chocolate Cake with Meringue Topping Flourless Milk Chocolate Cake with Grapefruit and Hazelnuts Manischewitz Passover Coffee Cake, Reviewed Related Serious Passover Eats [Talk] Passover pasta rules? [Talk] A Beginner's Guide to Passover...
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Here's the thing about Manischewitz coffee cake: it tastes just like Little Debbie coffee cake. It has the same buttery bottom layer, the same crumbly cinnamon topping. It is the definition of a foodie's guiltiest indulgence. Guilty because it's a far cry from a sophisticated soufflé or a trendy tiramisu—it comes from a box and requires only two eggs and a splash of water to make. Indulgent because it is, after all, cake. When deciding which kosher for Passover boxed mix to prepare for this week's Mixed Review, I choose Manischewitz over the alternative, Streit's, for the simple reason that it was 37 years older. (Manischewitz was founded in 1888, Streit's in 1925.) Aside from their age, the two...
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L'Chaim! Stock Up Now! Photograph courtesy of mhaithaca While bread gets cracker-ified during Passover, chosen bottles of soda get stripped of their high-fructose corn syrup and are sweetened instead with the real deal. No need to hunt for imported Mexican colas or hitch a ride south of the border for the cane sugar cola that tastes so great. That's right: Passover Coke is here! (Or Passover Pepsi, if you're on that side of the Cola War.) Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi make a real-sugar version around this time of year, and you can find it by looking for yellow caps on Coke bottles or white caps on Pepsi. But to be sure you really have a sweet, sweet sugariffic cola in...
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Photograph taken by J. Pollack Just because you can't eat leavened foods during Passover doesn't mean you can't break out the cupcakes; flourless chocolate cupcakes, that is. Try Stef's Kosher-friendly recipe for flourless chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting for a Moses-approved dessert. Previously Photo of the Day: Robot Cupcakes Photo of the Day: Vampire Cupcakes Photo of the Day: Meatloaf Cupcake Photo of the Day: Sweet Cupcakes...
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This is a true story: when I was about five years old, I asked my mother how Moses and his friends had time to stop in the middle of the desert to dip their matzo in chocolate. Turns out I wasn't the only curious kid. This Passover season marks the 20th anniversary of Chuck Siegel's (the Charles of Charles Chocolates) matzo-dipping party. But the whole scene got started with apples—not dipped in honey, but in caramel. Chuck, then owner of Attivo Confections, was vacuum-sealing his candied Granny Smith apples with heavy-duty equipment. "The guy we bought the bags and the machines from was Jewish, and still is Jewish," Siegel said. "And he said, 'my daughter really wants to make...
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Plague-themed Peeps, candy molds, and chocolates: they're perfect for Passover! The ten Passover Plagues in Exodus didn't involve much sugar or butter. If only Moses delivered G-d's demands in candy form, then those gnats and ticks could have been chocolate, not infectious insects! With Passover only three weeks away, here's a few candy homages to the anniversary of Egyptian calamities. Mmm, who wants a sugar high from boils and murrain?...
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Okay, so it's a few days late for Passover, and I apologize for that profusely, but these dioramas of Peeps reenacting the Ten Plagues of Egypt are hilarious nonetheless. [via Dooce]...
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Those wacky funsters on Japanese TV know how to put some life into my by-now-rote Passover celebration with this delightfully perverse "Halving Matzo" video....
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