Have fun with your matzo this Passover: make matzo nachos! Thanks to Cabot Creamery Cooperative for sponsoring this Passover recipe. Like many of you, my family is facing another pandemic Passover. Who could have imagined at this time last year that, a full year later, we would still be wearing masks and social distancing to stay safe from ...
No-Bake Lemon Posset
This tart, creamy lemon posset requires only three ingredients and no baking! Perfect for Passover or that bleak moment when you run out of eggs. Well, we are almost a month into our self-isolation here in Illinois and now it is Passover to boot. So much for all the stress baking I have been doing! Not only can I not bake because it is ...
Spinach, Leek and Cheddar Mina for Passover
A vegetarian and dairy dish perfect for a family Passover meal: a mazto pie or mina made with spinach, leeks and lots of Cabot cheese. Thanks to Cabot Creamery Co-operative for sponsoring this Passover recipe. The Jewish festival of Passover begins at sundown on April 8. This eight-day festival - which commemorates the Jews’ exodus from Egypt in ...
Matzo Brei with Cheddar & Avocado
Thanks to Cabot Cheese for sponsoring this Passover post. All opinions stated herein are entirely my own. Enjoy this recipe for Matzo Brei with Cabot Cheddar and Avocado. A fresh take on a classic Jewish dish! Is it even Passover if you don't have matzo brei at least once? Matzo brei is more than just something you put up with during ...
Tortilla Espanola with Cheddar for Passover
Thanks to Cabot Cheese for sponsoring this Passover post. All opinions stated herein are entirely my own. Enjoy this recipe for a gluten-free Tortilla Espanola with Cheddar - perfect for Passover or any time of year! Passover will be here in just a few weeks. This eight-day festival, which commemorates the Jews’ exodus from Egypt in the time ...
Flourless Mexican Chocolate Cake
Whether it is Passover or you avoid gluten all year long, this flourless chocolate cake with Mexican spices is the perfect special occasion gluten-free dessert. Is it still Passover? Don't we deserve a treat for making it this far into an eight-day-long holiday? How about a kosher-for-Passover flourless chocolate cake? That will make up for ...
Red Pepper and Egg Matzo Galettes
A tasty and quick vegetarian Passover lunch or dinner: red pepper and egg matzo galettes are ready in under an hour! One of the most overlooked aspects of Passover is how long it lasts. Days after the seder has been eaten, the dishes done, and the dining room put back together, you still have to come up with three meals a day that are kosher ...
Preserved Lemon Chicken with Almonds and Figs
A Sephardic-inspired main course that is elegant enough for a Passover seder, but easy enough to make any night of the week. For full recipe, see Valley Fig Growers blog. One of the first fruits to be cultivated by people, figs are as meaningful and symbolic as they are sweet and delicious. Jews consider figs to be particularly holy because ...
Coconut, Lime & White Chocolate Pudding
A tropical island-inspired, gluten-free dessert for Passover or any occasion! White chocolate pudding made with coconut milk and flavored with lime and ginger. In December, I posted a Mexican Chocolate Pudding made with coconut milk - inspired by a recipe from Chicago chef Bill Kim - that was both gluten-free and vegan. I speculated that ...
Baked Artichokes with Matzo Farfel
When Passover falls in early spring, highlight one of the season's best vegetables: artichokes. These matzo farfel-stuffed baked artichokes would be a worthy addition to any seder menu. With the first seder on March 30, Passover comes early this year. If a rabbi were here right now, he or she would say: "Actually, Passover is the same date ...
Gluten-Free Chocolate Teff Crepes for Passover
A very special Passover breakfast or elegant Seder dessert: chocolate crepes made with teff flour! When it comes to Passover desserts, my favorite flour is not the dreaded matzo cake meal, which makes everything dense and leaden. It's teff flour. What’s teff? An ancient grain native to eastern Africa, teff is most familiar to Americans as ...
Matzo Chocolate Bark
Matzo chocolate bark is a special Passover treat. Imagine matzo drenched in toffee and chocolate and topped with dried fruits, nuts and pumpkin seeds. My family looks forward to this all year! This is not exactly breaking news but if you cover something, anything, in enough toffee and chocolate, it will taste good. Hence, matzo chocolate ...
Sephardic Date Charoset for Passover
A Sephardic version of Passover charoset made with Medjool dates, almonds and walnuts and flavored with cinnamon and a hint of orange. A worthy addition to your Passover seder! Dates are the base for many charoset recipes from the Sephardic world, which tend to be more like fruit pastes than the chunky apple and nut mixture familiar to ...
Braised Brisket for Passover
Tender, melt-in-your-mouth brisket is the perfect main course for your Passover seder. Best of all? You can prepare it in advance! Have you planned the menu for your Passover seder? My family will only let me vary the menu so much. They want all their traditional favorites: Matzo ball soup; my mother-in-law's sweet charoset and, of ...
Passover Meal Ideas
Are you looking for dinner ideas that are kosher-for-Passover to get through the rest of this week? Me too. I have combed through my archives to find some of my favorite wheat-free recipes to make your Passover meal planning easier. This is also a great list of gluten-free meal ideas for those times you are hosting friends or family who avoid ...
Matzo Ball Soup
Passover begins this Friday, April 22nd, at sundown and Jews all over the world are preparing for their Seders. The Passover Seder is the most widely celebrated ceremony in the Jewish year. Even Jews who do not observe any other religious ritual will host or attend a Seder. There is something magical about the idea that Jews all over the world ...
Chocolate Teff Cake for Passover
Teff it out! When it comes to Passover desserts, I have a new favorite flour: teff. What's teff? An ancient grain native to eastern Africa, teff is most familiar to Americans as the basis for injera, the spongy, slightly sour (because it's fermented) pancake-like flatbread served at Ethiopian restaurants. Teff is considered to be kosher for ...