Family Quotes

H Dec 2012I just came across a note with quotes to remember from Pesach 2013, so I thought this would be a good place to put them. These memories make me smile.

“My throat feels scared.” – H, age 5

Conversation between H and her Aunt T:
H: My hands are cold.
T: Put them in your pockets.
H: I can’t, because my gloves are in my pockets!

Latkes

latkes 1This recipe is pretty much unedited but I needed to get it up on the blog since each year we forget how to make these and have to rummage through our computers and emails to relearn. (January 2017: Rivka finally wrote down measurements that we were happy with. They appear at the end of this post.)

This recipe came from my brother-in-law in 2009. The expert speaks:

The key is to grate the potatoes then squeeze the gratings to get out as much moisture as possible.

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Gluten Free HaMotzi Challah

IMG_1726With many thanks to Julie and Judi, here is our new, delicious recipe for gluten free challah over which we can legally say hamotzi.

As Julie says on her kosher coeliac blog, “Gluten free hamotzi challah … is the holy grail of gluten free baking.” I didn’t think about this until recently, when Judi and Ray invited us to shabbat Continue reading “Gluten Free HaMotzi Challah”

Nana’s Bread Stuffing

The original recipe as written down about 30 years ago
The original recipe as written down
about 30 years ago

Gluten free, Parve

We’ve been experimenting with gluten free stuffing recipes for about 7 years, since Celiac diagnoses started coming in. Made a good rice and mushroom stuffing, but it wasn’t the same as memories of Thanksgiving. Tried substituting homemade GF bread in Nana’s recipe but it turned into mush. This year we found success, with the help of Glutino!

Bake this separate from the turkey so it stays parve and the vegetarians can eat it, and to avoid any health risks from stuffing the turkey.

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