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Hamentaschen

February 23, 2010
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from the archive, just in time for the holiday.
Among the many traditions associated with the quickly-approaching Jewish holiday of Purim, perhaps the most widely-kept one is the consuming of copious amounts of alcohol hamentaschen. Are you surprised that it’s my favorite holiday in the calendar?

Fashioned after Haman’s pocket, hamentaschen are cookies filled with anything from [...]

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No Better Reason to Celebrate

November 12, 2009

I’ve never been an early adopter. I came to this food blogging thing way after it had taken off; by the time I got a dSLR camera, food photography had already become a professional sport. And while other folks share whole chunks of their life online, the virtual snapshot I’ve created on this here blog [...]

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Sugar High Friday: Toasted Edition, the Roundup!

October 30, 2009

It always takes me a while to get over the end of summer’s abundance; I spend a good part of September missing peak tomatoes and fretting about corn’s impending end. But once October comes around, I’m fully ready for fall, which brings pleasure of a different sort.
Once I’ve left summer behind, I’m ready for [...]

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Sugar High Friday…Toasted!

September 22, 2009

Now that NDP is a whopping two years old, I think it’s time she and I finally hosted a blogging event. I’ve been a sporadic participant in these sorts of things, mostly because between keeping up with my day job, getting bloggable food on the table, and taking decent pictures of said food, I [...]

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Moroccan Chicken with Olives

September 17, 2009

Today was seriously busy — fortunately for me, D’s stepmom Terri came in a couple days early to help cook, finish up grocery shopping, and see to it that the house was clean. That last bit she takes more seriously than you can imagine; when D and I moved into our apt, in a 100-year [...]

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Getaway Sour Cherry Pie

August 15, 2009

The dog days of August are no time to hang out in DC. That’s why D and I spent the first week of the month with her parents in Douglas, MI, a beach town on the eastern side of Lake Michigan, where every day is 75 and sunny and there’s a constant breeze rippling [...]

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Vegetarian Passover Main Dishes

April 1, 2009

See the notes before each recipe for ways to make recipe non-dairy.
One week from today, Jews will celebrate the holiday of Passover, in which we tell the story of our enslavement in Egypt, our eventual exodus from slavery, and our future wandering in the desert and entering of the land of Israel. As tradition [...]

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Housekeeping

January 31, 2009

Hi readers!
Just a couple of quick items:

As you can see from the picture above, the lovely Jan should be receiving my Menu For Hope Big Ole’ Box of Sweets today, lucky lady that she is. Jan, hope you enjoy — and to the rest of you, hopefully you won something in MFH as well. [...]

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