Tag: rosh hashana

• Chocolate and Honey Fig Cake

  My grandparents have a fig tree near their garden in Switzerland. It is large, impassive to the treasures it holds, entrancing. Its leaves, elegant and waving green, shade little purple parcels of fig. It takes a measure of patience to watch the fruit ripen. When it does, it is perfect: floral, woodsy, dusk-colored and heady. […]

  Chaya

  September 5, 2018

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  baking, cake, chocolate, cocoa, delicious, figs, food, food blog, food blogger, food photography, food styling, fruit, honey, jewish, kosher, oil, recipes, rosh hashana, september

• Spiced Whiskey Honey Cake with Whipped Mascarpone

  While making lists and going over menu ideas for this year’s Rosh Hashana meals, I was struck by how little relevance was given to the honey cake. Sure, it was on the menu- it’s too traditional to do away with, and there are always a few diehard honey cake fans who would raise a hell […]

  Chaya

  September 17, 2017

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  allspice, baking, cake, cinnamon, clove, concord grapes, delicious, figs, food, food blog, food blogger, ginger, grapes, holiday, honey, honey cake, honeycomb, jewish, kosher, mascarpone, nutmeg, photography, pomegranate, recipes, rosh hashana, seasonal, september, spices, whiskey, writing

• Six Impossible Things

  Here we are! At the crossroads of summer and fall. There is, despite the sadness I feel as I see summer go, something beautiful about this seamless changing of seasons. The days are hot but the nights are cool. Peaches and tomatoes are as abundant as ever, but local apples have taken up residence in […]

  Chaya

  September 21, 2015

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  apples, bread, butterfly, fall, figs, food, fruit, jewish, photography, pie, plums, rosh hashana, seasonal, september, summer, writing

• Honey and Za’atar Roasted Carrots with Cumin Aioli

  The problem with holiday meals is that the classics can get old, fast. The brisket is repetitive, the honey cake’s too dry, and the elaborate dishes you once thought were new and exciting are suddenly, due to the realities of life, too time consuming to attempt. To remedy that, here are these carrots. Carrots are […]

  Chaya

  September 11, 2015

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  aioli, appetizer, carrots, dinner, food, kosher, photography, recipes, rosh hashana, vegetables, vegetarian

• Fig, Pear & Frangipane Rye Galette

  

  If there is one thing I appreciate about this in between season, it is the fruits of summer and fall that overlap. In the place of fresh pink watermelons, we have dusky plums, and the juiciest peaches. As the berries slip away, floral sweet figs and small, crisp apples take their place. And as multi-hued […]

  Chaya

  September 8, 2015

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  autumn, dessert, fall, figs, food, frangipane, galette, kosher, pears, photography, recipes, rosh hashana, rye, seasonal, writing

• Apple Walnut Cake

  Since Rosh Hashana’s tomorrow night I’m sharing a recipe for Apple Walnut Cake, which perfectly suits the holiday. Rosh Hashana is when we celebrate the Jewish New Year and we have the custom of symbolically dipping an apple into honey for a sweet new year. It’s one of the things I look forward to every […]

  Chaya

  September 23, 2014

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  apples, cake, cinnamon, delicious, dessert, fall, food, new year, photography, recipes, rosh hashana, seasonal, september, walnuts