Rainy day project: Sy & I made lemony blondies with a lemon sumac glaze from Jake Cohens new cookbook. Sy learned how to zest and spreading a glaze evenly (he even made up a song about spreading). They are delicious, especially if you like lemon.

After over 700 days, the hostages have been released!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This is one of my favorite of their recipes. My Mother in Law and some of my friends are gluten free and it is a hit for everyone;

www.jewishfoodsociety.org/recipes/bocc...

This is the cover. I cannot wait to explore!!!

Ok I found a couple of Kosher Cajun/Kosher creole cookbooks on google play AND yes I have bought them. @jeremyhammett.bsky.social, you are coming over for dinner soon!

I love the Jewish Food Society bc they do an amazing job of celebrating the way Jews have lived all around the world and mixed their cultures through food (their cookbook is fantastic!).

www.jewishfoodsociety.org

New cookbook! Got some ideas for baking this weekend.

One of my favorite cookbook authors and food historians has a new cookbook out and I am excited af about it.

We still haven't gotten up to the yom kippur episode though!

Its sooo good.

Thanks!

You make it! I probably have several recipes.

A while ago I posted about how Zionism is a Jewish philosophy and therefore needs to be understood in a Jewish manner & Jewish contexts. That brought out some... Responses.

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We put up our sukkah this past weekend and then decorated it with some lights and corn and whatnot. And this is where we eat for the week!

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

I was at a dinner recently and mentioned how as soon as we can (adoption is complex) we are getting Aviva a passport in case we need it. Our friends could not understand why we would need it or want an exit plan & it was honestly a frustrating conversation for me & Nate.

A friend of mine got really annoyed when I told him that Veep was more realistic than West Wing.

Brazil!!!!

Our book haul from a trip to barnes & noble today. I am going to learn so much about snakes!

Yay. So happy for you!

I remember that! That's how I learned about Hamlet and still think of the to be not to be version of the Habanera from Carmen

I bring this up bc of not just the attacks in Manchester, but the response to posts about antisemitism. I bring this up bc at synagogue yesterday we needed EXTRA police protection. I would rather focus on the challah & the sukkah we will put together Sunday. Because Jewish joy is beautiful. שַׁבַּת שָׁלוֹם

The point of this is not just to do some musings on bread (although y'all know I love musings on food). But to remember that Judaism has a long, rich tradition. We have been attacked, we have been persecuted, & still we continue to, every shabbat, make challah.

The first mention of Challah is in בְּמִדְבַּר (Numbers) 15:20. In the Mishnah, there is a whole tractate around challah, which focuses on dough offering. While the challah may look different in different Jewish cultures, (braiding started in Germany/Austria around the 1500s).