Cooking
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Apple Challah
For my first attempt at making dough from scratch I decided to make apple Challah. I followed this recipe from Janae Monir. It turned out great! Because I wasn’t sure I would succeed on the first try I made two of them. They were quite the hit at the Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur. You Continue reading
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Quick Greek salad with cherry tomatoes
This is a really fast, easy way to make a refreshing summery salad. First, take a handful of cherry tomatoes (or in my case a s***tload). Wash and halve them. Then, add olive oil, chopped cucumber and crumbled feta. I also add a dash of lemon juice instead of vinegar. You can add olives and chopped Continue reading
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You say tomato I say toh-mah-toh
This story began in April with a few heirloom tomato seeds that I bought from Beekman 1802. They grew slowly into spindly seedlings which I then planted into the rock-hard soil and waited for a miracle. From the original 20 or so seedlings only 5 survived and grew into these… I’m starting to believe they Continue reading
Dew of the Desert 