Here is the recipe for the Dark Chocolate Covered Macaroons I baked for Passover recently. Make them for any occasion you like or just for yourself. They are that good! They are so simple to make you may be surprised. If you love coconut you will love this chewy, rich treat. A quick dunk in…
Tag: Holidays
Boeuf Bourguignon for a New Year’s Eve Dinner at Home
Happy New Year 2018! With my recent trauma of a seriously broken wrist and a fairly long recovery ahead of me it was clear we would be in for New Year’s Eve this year. On my first outing to the grocery store with my husband a few days before New Year’s Eve I suggested to…
Sufganiyot
(above photograph by John Kernick for Food and Wine magazine) Tuesday evening we lit the last candle on the Menorah ending the 8 days of Hanukkah, 2017. I had hoped to post this recipe for the above sufganiyot (Hebrew for doughnut) before the end of Hanukkah, but everything is taking me longer these…
Thanksgiving 2017
This Thanksgiving we were fortunate to have my sister and brother seated at our table as well as our children. They came for a visit, spending several days in LA before driving to San Luis with our son and daughter-in-law on Thanksgiving Day. They have each visited Slo before, but this is the first Thanksgiving…
Plum Crunch
We ushered in the Jewish New Year recently with many of the traditional sweets symbolizing our hopes for a sweet year ahead… …apples and challah bread dipped in honey, (apples and honey from the wonderful local farmer’s markets), my apple cake, my favorite honey cake, and the pastry/cookies called rugelach, which I haven’t posted as…
The Way To Cook… Julia Child’s French Onion Soup Gratineed
This year we had a Holiday Party on the 6th night of Hanukkah and invited all our neighbors to join us for Latkes and more, which is how I worded the invitations. We moved into our new home, one of eight homes in its own unique neighborhood downtown, more than 3 years ago. At the…
Happy Hanukkah
Thanksgiving 2016
I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! It was a very special Thanksgiving at our home this year! Our sons and their girlfriends, fiancees, wives (yes!) were seated at our table! This past year both couples were married, and we feel truly blessed to welcome our daughters-in-law as official members of our family. We couldn’t be…
Dorie Greenspan’s Cookies and Kindness Campaign
This morning I listened to a live interview on facebook with Dorie Greenspan, well known cookbook author and baker extraordinaire. If you are a cookie lover/eater/baker you will enjoy the link below. In it Dorie reveals her newest peanut butter cookie featured in her most recent cookbook, Dorie’s Cookies, as well as her new project, #cookiesandkindness…
Sweets for a Sweet New Year
The Jewish New Year begins this coming Sunday at sundown. As is tradition it is a time to celebrate by eating sweet foods symbolizing wishes for a sweet year ahead. In anticipation of the holiday, this past Sunday the San Luis Obispo Jewish Community Center / Jewish Federation sponsored its first “Apples and Honey Festival”…