Apartment Therapy: Holidays

Recipe Review: Homemade Gefilte Fish

We can almost hear the sound of the mouse clicking to the next page or your index finger rolling down the scroll button... Gefilte fish—much less homemade gefilte fish—is not on most people's wish...

Eggs and More: Treats for Easter and Passover

Do you have any sweet and special Easter treats planned? How about rice Krispie eggs, DIY Peeps, or golden chocolate Easter eggs? Or maybe you're celebrating Passover and you want to make huevos hamin...

How to Make Onion-Skin Easter Eggs

It's Easter egg time at our house. Last year we brought you the story of Huevos Haminados, a Passover tradition of dying eggs with onion skins. This year, I decided to try it with both yellow and red ...

What Are Your Favorite Passover Recipes?

Passover began last night at sundown, and the weeklong celebration is now underway. We talked a little about the food traditions of Passover in this lovely article from Mayim Bialik. But now we're cur...

Recipe: Simplest Cinnamon Lamb Stew

It's Passover and Easter this week, so I can't not give you a lamb recipe. Here's a really easy one. I took the concept of Marge Piercy's Cinnamon Lamb in her book, Pesach for the Rest of Us, and app...

Pesach For the Rest of Us by Marge Piercy
Book Review 2009

Before her semi-recent narrative on the Passover Seder, Marge Piercy is a writer I knew of primarily as a poet. Her fiery, intense poetry was brought to my attention by a writing teacher when I was a ...

Try This! Homemade Matzo

Most commercially-made matzo is about as tasty as the cardboard box it comes in. We imagine that making it ourselves has to be an improvement and we're curious to give it a try. Has anyone made homema...

Recipe: Windowsill Herb Garden Lamb and Potatoes

Are you making lamb for Easter or Passover? This traditional meat is very easy to prepare; its rich taste and tender texture almost always come through. It's certainly easier than the Thanksgiving tu...

The Food Traditions of Passover

The holiday of Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) begins this year Wednesday night, April 8, and continues through April 16. Passover is the festival of the Jewish calendar most focused on the home. This spr...

Tip: Cook Quinoa for Passover

Quinoa is gaining popularity as a substitute for wheat and rice during Passover. It's fluffy, pearled texture means it behaves just like a grain, even though it's not, making it a kosher alternative p...

Wine: Great Picks for Passover and Easter

It is April already; Spring is almost in the air and important holidays like Easter and Passover are upon us next week. As ever, these holidays are times for special family gatherings, laughing and fe...

What Are You Cooking for Passover and Easter?

Two big spring celebrations with lots of good food traditions are fast approaching: Passover, which begins at sundown a week from today, April 8, and Easter, celebrated Sunday April 12. Here's a pos...

Look! Passover Desserts from Gourmet

We haven't written too much about Passover foods yet, and there are still a couple of weeks to go (it starts April 9th). But this slideshow of desserts is a good one to get your planning started. How ...

Holiday Tools: Multi-Tier Oven Rack

Now here's a handy tool for Thanksgiving and the other holidays swiftly approaching. We don't know about you, but there never seems to be enough room in our oven on the day itself. There are squash ca...

Passover Matzah Brei

Passover begins at sunset tonight. Happy Passover from The Kitchn - we hope that all celebrating have a joyful holiday and wonderful seder meal. Anyone making matzah brei, the matzah egg scramble? W...

More Passover Food from The Jew and The Carrot

Just a couple more days until Passover! Here are a few more great posts from Jewish community organization Hazon's food blog, The Jew and The Carrot. Also make sure to check out our recent interview...

Good Question: Where Can I Find Imitation Mustard for Passover?

Here's a time-sensitive request, but we don't have a good answer. Any tips from you readers? We have a recipe we want to use for Passover, but it calls for mustard. Mustard is not kosher for Passov...

Cooking for Passover for the First Time: Q&A With Leah Koenig - Editor of The Jew and The Carrot

Are you cooking for Passover for the first time this year? Passover is a holiday rich with thousands of years of tradition - family, cultural, and religious. Taking on some or all of the food responsi...

The Passover Seder Plate and New Traditions

We've already shown you some pretty Seder plates, but we've haven't yet talked about what goes on them. Those who grew up celebrating Passover can probably recite the traditional items in their sleep....

Find them Now: Kosher for Passover Foods

Those of you who don't celebrate Passover may be just skimming our posts about the holiday, thinking, "Yeah, yeah, this doesn't apply to me." But this post, at least, you should pay attention to. Th...

Look! Beautiful Seder Plates

At the center of the Passover table sits the Seder plate, full of the symbolic foods, and foods for thought, that are used during the ritual. We've been to several Seders where there was only a paper ...

Recipe Review: Spring Spinach and Herb Soup

We've been searching for recipes that feel light and springlike without relying on out of season vegetables. This vegetarian soup seemed easy and simple; the perfect first course for a spring supper....

Preparing for Passover: Getting Rid of the Chametz

As we're busy here at The Kitchn spring cleaning with the Kitchn Cure, Jews all over the world are also busy preparing for Passover. This is the time to ritually clean your kitchens, and get rid of ch...

Cooking for the Holidays: Passover and Easter

Food and faith are perhaps never more linked than they are this week, Holy Week for Christians and Passover for Jews. For observant Jews Passover involves a thorough cleaning of the house from everyth...

Passover: Kosher? Kind-of-Kosher?

There's a great thread going about what to cook for Passover with some unusual ideas and questions. Whether you want to keep kosher, consider yourself just-a-little-kosher, or toss the kosher thing...

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