Tag: spring

• Crispy Skillet Chicken with Leeks, Shallots and New Potatoes

  

  Passover starts this Friday! I’ll spare you a soliloquy about the meaning of the holiday and how I cook and prepare for it- mostly because you can find that on other posts on this blog. (But also because you’re just here for the recipe. I totally get it.) This is one of my favorite dishes…

  Chaya

  April 11, 2022

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  chicken, food, food photography, food styling, kosher, kosher for passover, leeks, passover, potatoes, recipes, shallots, spring

• Vegan Almond Fudge Cake

  

  Here is a very simple, very fudgy chocolate almond cake that happens to be vegan and refined sugar free. It is also made in one bowl. And it is also, perhaps most importantly, kosher for Passover. All the good things! I like this cake because it’s super adaptable. During the year, you can make it…

  Chaya

  March 21, 2021

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  almond meal, almonds, baking, cake, chocolate, flowers, kosher, kosher for passover, maple, passover, recipes, spring, vegan

• A Rhubarb and Walnut Frangipane Galette

  I think I may have jumped the gun a bit this year. It’s not even April and here I am with a recipe for rhubarb. It’s just that the stalks were so bright and pink and colorful in the store, I couldn’t ignore them. I really couldn’t. Anyway, I’m not too mad about it. And…

  Chaya

  March 28, 2019

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  baking, blogging, butter, delicious, dessert, food, food photography, frangipane, french, galette, march, photography, rhubarb, spring, writing

• Snap Pea, Radish and Orchid Salad

  One of the things I love about this season is how easy it is to throw together a great salad. I know, I know; you thought I’d say something about berries and pies. Well, surprise! I like vegetables too! In fact, I can’t get enough of them. Come spring, I toss peas into pasta, roast…

  Chaya

  June 4, 2018

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• Salted Chocolate Rye and Vanilla Bean Olive Oil Ice Cream Sandwiches

  Ice cream wars! Who else had them as a kid? Chocolate or vanilla! Strawberry or chocolate, vanilla or both?! I always chose chocolate, and I got a fair amount of flack for it. But vanilla never held a candle to chocolate for me. It was boring, tasteless and way too basic. I’m still not much…

  Chaya

  May 13, 2018

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• Strawberry Brioches with Orange Almond Cream

  It’s Spring! Well, not really. There’s not a flower in sight, and the trees are as bare as ever. But it’s starting. Slowly. I’ve begun to hear the faint chirping of birds again, music to my ears, and one morning when I stepped out, it was misty and cool and it felt like Spring was…

  Chaya

  April 13, 2018

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• Pavlovas with Lemon Curd & Citrus

  The past few weeks, my creativity, something I’d never given much thought to, demanded attention. Truthfully, it didn’t demand attention so much as seemingly vanish from existence: why couldn’t I think of a single thing to bake? Why did none of my attempts at writing result in anything other than a blank page? How come any painting…

  Chaya

  March 27, 2018

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  art, celiac, citrus, creativity, food, gluten free, kosher, lemon curd, march, passover, pavlova, pesach, photography, recipes, spring, winter, writing

• Vanilla Bean Cheesecake Tart with Roasted Rhubarb

  Let’s make cheesecake! In tart form! I’m a big fan of tarts because they look super elegant and are simple to make. I specifically love a cheesecake in tart form. The towering height of a classic cheesecake (such as this one) is too rich for some people, and a tart scales it down, yielding a…

  Chaya

  May 28, 2017

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• Whole Wheat Rhubarb Pie Bars

  It’s that time of year again. Trees, newly clothed in pink blossoms, shed their skeletal selves. Grass emerges, sparkling new and green, from beneath relentless streams of rain. Rhubarb finds its way into my kitchen and has me spellbound with its pearly, pink power. I want to make a pie, a purely rhubarb pie, but…

  Chaya

  May 5, 2017

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• My Mother’s Challah

  I’ve wanted to post my mother’s challah recipe for a while now. Things got in the way. I wanted to tweak it. She wanted to tweak it. We went on a challah making hiatus (what?!) But mostly I thought, who needs another challah recipe? The internet is full of them. They are all described as…

  Chaya

  April 21, 2017

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