Moving house along with assorted other life events have stopped me from posting much, but I wanted to put up a quick post from my Easter Bakes. The pièce de résistance was Guiseppe’s pastiera. According to Guiseppe, it’s the most traditional easter back in the Campania region of Italy. It uses a very unusual ingredient, Grano […]
Egg Kichel is very niche. If you aren’t Jewish you probably never heard of them. For that matter, one Jewish friend I asked about them responded with a vague “I think they had them at synagogue sometimes?” For some reason, a memory of them was triggered recently, and it led to a craving. There was
Easter-over bakes! I’m Jewish (with an emphasis on the ish), and my wife and the rest of the family are varying flavors and levels of Christian. This year Easter and Passover happened to overlap, so of course I needed to bake for both. The first of the Easter-over bakes is the Passover one. I went
I haven’t had the time to write up recipes from Christmas, but I figured I should at least post some photos of all my bakes, so here we go…
I don’t remember why I decided to make homemade mallomars. I think it was the yearly realization that they are actually a seasonal product. This comes up every year around the holidays when they are “in season”. It made me think “maybe I could just make mallomars when they aren’t available”. Well, turns out you