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Homemade Matzo Balls with Chicken Soup Recipe
There's no meal more soothing, warming and filling than homemade matzo balls and real chicken soup.
Doughnuts for Chanukah – Good Any Time of Year
The eight-day mid-winter festival of Chanukah is a time of celebration when foods fried in oil, such as potato latkes and doughnuts, are traditionally eaten.
Potato Knishes Recipe
These knishes are light and delightful and easy to make. One recipe is for the traditional potato knish and the other one is for cheese.
How to Make Stuffed Peppers - A Trio of Love
Stuffed peppers with matzo meal, ground beef and garlic is a recipe to remember. Jewish holidays and Moma in the kitchen, nothing could be better.
Kale and Butternut Frittata – Passover Cookery
Butternut and kale, both full of vitamins and minerals, combine with eggs to make a tasty, colourful, dish suitable, not just for Passover, but delicious all year round.
Chanukah Favorites Created for Manischewitz
Susie Fishbein and Sarah Lasry help kick off 3rd Annual Manischewitz Creative Cooking Contest this year with fresh takes on two Chanukah classics: Latkes and Chicken.
How to Make Cheese Blintzes
Dairy foods are the order of the day during the Jewish Festival of Shavu'ot. This recipe is for a very popular and traditional dish that can be either sweet or savoury.
Keeping Kosher/ Keeping Healthy
Toss the Schmaltz, Go light on the Olive Oli and Watch Out for those Chicken Livers! Keeping Kosher Doesn't have to mean a diet of greasy, heavy food.
Passover Chicken and Mushroom Pie
This recipe confirms to the strict dietary rules of the Jewish festival of Passover. The pastry can be used for either savoury or sweet recipes.
Not Your Grandma's Passover Seder
There are many new brand names and Kosher products available for the Passover Seder table in 2008. Many are healthier and lower in calories than more traditional brands.
Plava - Sponge Cake for Passover
This recipe makes one large cake, a split cake, or fairy cakes. These can be iced, topped with chocolate, filled with butter cream, or topped with fresh fruit and cream.
Coconut Pyramids
Passover for many means a lot of hard work, spring cleaning, and a search for forbidden foods. The reward for all this hard work is a week of unusual and tasty foods.
Rout Cakes and Royal Icing
Passover, like all Jewish festivals, has special foods like Cinnamon Balls and Coconut Pyramids. These use just egg whites. This Rout Cake recipe will use the egg yolks.
The Meaning of Passover Foods
The Passover Seder Table is steeped in religious and symbolic meaning, and as Jews partake of the meal, they are learning/recalling their deepest traditions and teachings
Cinnamon Balls
Passover, a time of dietary restrictions for Jews, is the time when a Jewish cook is at his/her most creative. Cinnamon Balls are one of the most popular tasty treats.
Passover or Pesach
Like so many holidays and religious observances, food and what it symbolizes, plays an intimate part of the Jewish Passover (or Pesach) Seder.
Sweet and Sour Cabbage Rolls
The Purim Table traditionally features foods that are stuffed or contain some sort of "pocket" to symbolize the secrecy and deceit of Haman. This is a Healthy One!
Hamantaschen
These delectable pin-wheeled shaped pastries are sometimes called "Haman's Pockets" and are traditionally served during Purim
Purim and Food
Partying, Eating and Drinking to Excess is the Hallmark of Purim. Traditionally, the Foods that are Eaten, however, are also steeped in Symbolic Meaning.
Savoury Gefilte or Gefüllte Fish
Because Orthodox Jews do not cook on the Sabbath dishes that can be prepared in advance and served chilled are very popular.
Sweet Gefilte (Gefüllte) Fish
Orthodox Jews are not allowed to cook food on the Sabbath. This dish can be prepared in advance and served cold.
Chanukah Jelly Doughnut Recipe
Home-made Jelly Doughnuts Fried in Oil are Special Treats during Chanukah. These Little Beauties Take Bit of Time and Effort, but are well worth the effort.
Making Chanukah Gelt
Making These Chanukah Chocolate Coins is an Easy, Fun, Craft Activity to do with Children, as You Tell Them the Story of the Jewish Festival of Lights
Latke Recipe
During the Festival of Lights, Jews enjoy many holiday foods which require quantities of oil to prepare, in commemoration of the Temple oil burning for eight days.
Home Baked Bagels
The bagel was regarded as a Jewish food. Over the last few years many variations on the original theme have become popular with everyone all over the world.