Tag: december
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Chocolate Babka Doughnuts with Cacao Nib Sugar
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share my latest work for The Nosher, these Chocolate Babka Doughnuts, just in time for Chanukah! Made with an eggy, buttery brioche dough, filled with a rich chocolate pastry cream and rolled in cacao nib sugar, these epic doughnuts are a mashup of the ultimate Chanukah treat- sufganiyot- with my…
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Brown Butter Pistachio Baklava
I discovered baklava in a chaotic, sun soaked market in Jerusalem. All around me, vendors shouted, loudly hawking their wares, and people selected their goods quickly, haggling briefly and hurriedly bagging their treasures. In contrast, I stood still, lost in fascination. In front of me, sticky, syrupy diamonds were laid out on trays, sprinkled with…
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Six Impossible Things
The past couple of weeks have been crazy busy. It seemed like every day there was something new to check off my list and each week I had more and more things to get done. However, now that Chanukah is over I feel like things are finally starting to calm down. I have a trip…
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Mount Snow
For the last couple of days of Chanukah, my family and our friends went skiing in Vermont. The skiing is amazing (although I’m still just a beginner) but I also really love the surroundings here: sternly towering pine trees, wide-open fields of powdery white snow, and quietly rustic lodges are all abundant in Vermont, and appeal…
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Classic, Crispy Potato Latkes
Happy Chanukah everyone! Today, I’m sharing a recipe for classic potato latkes. These are the latkes my mom made when I was growing up and they’re the latkes I make for Chanukah today. When I was little, we’d sit at the kitchen table peeling pounds of potatoes while singing Chanukah songs together. Today, I’ll sometimes…
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Six Impossible Things
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” – White Queen, Alice in Wonderland. Six impossibly awesome things. ∞ How delicious does this tea sound?! It’s like dessert, in tea form. ∞ ∞ Missing Zurich’s trees and beautiful buildings ∞ ∞ My favorite chocolate chip cookies, just before being baked. Recipe coming soon! ∞…
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