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We grew up eating dried fruit and nuts for dessert. The nuts were in their shells, and were left out on the dining room table with a nutcracker on top. I am sure my mother bought them that way because she thought they were fresher, but the unintentional result was that you actually needed to sit around the table to shell them. Pieces of shell would […]
It was in the early 1980s when Norm and I decided to build our first Sukkah. Neither of us had grown up with one, and so we had no family traditions to help guide us. We had to create our own, discover our own way, and find traditions that we were comfortable with. One year […]
This is a Saiger family recipe for a Passover confection called Imberlach. The recipe was handed down to my mother-in-law from her mother-in-law, Manya Saiger, my children’s great-grandmother. My mother-in-law once described Imberlach for a Passover cookbook “watch your cavities or fillings, the imberlach are jawbreakers, but oh so good.” Imberlach 1 1/2 lbs. honey 1/2 cup sugar […]
For the next fourteen days I will be devoting my post to one Passover recipe a day. Who has time for stories? Hope you try them and enjoy them. This recipe for Persian Charoset was given to me by a friend many years ago. One of the wonderful culinary influences in Los Angeles is that […]
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