Dessert Matzah is layered with pastry cream and chocolate ganache for a lovely Passover treat. For those who celebrate Passover, the most recognizable of the symbolic foods is Matzah, or Matzo, the unleavened bread that the Jewish people gathered as they fled Egypt thousands of years ago. The struggle for the attainment of freedom is […]
Celebrating Passover and Easter in the Time of Coronavirus
Passover and Easter will be celebrated a lot differently this year. Because we have been asked to stay home to stop the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus rather than gathering for religious services, many of us will be attending services through an online platform. Instead of gathering together around the table for Seder […]
Dukkah-Spiced Chocolate–Covered Matzoh for Passover
My aunt Arlene, cousin Sheila’s mom (Sheila Bender of WritingItReal.com), was our family’s gourmet cook, and she made a fine French Passover meal one year. It was not a hit. I tried changing up the ritual Charoset a few times but my family was disappointed. They wanted the Ashkenazi version, which is primarily apples, walnuts, cinnamon bound with […]
