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May 12, 2010 · 12 comments

Sweet Shabbat Challah

in Bread,Vegetarian

Breaking the Bread Challah is a soft sweet-smelling bread and is the ultimate symbol of Shabbat. It is also present at all Jewish holidays (with the exception of Passover). Technically, the word ‘Challah’ isn’t the name of the bread at all. The ‘Challah’ is a small olive sized piece of dough which is separated from [...]

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January 21, 2010 · 34 comments

Summer Sunshine

in Bread,My Recipes,Salad,Vegetarian

“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad but bread is king.” Louis Bromfield, American novelist  (1896-1956) Oh sunshine where have you gone? The weather has been a little challenging of late, to say the [...]

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