Tired of matzo pizza on Passover? Try something slightly different. This Vegetable Matzo Lasagna is comforting and nutritious all at once! The Jewish holiday of Passover causes many people to get into a frenzy about what they’re going to eat. How can they go a whole week without bread, pasta, cereal, oatmeal, and all their other favorite carbs?! I for…
50+ healthy Passover recipes that will take your holiday menu from traditional to gourmet! The eight day Jewish holiday of Passover is coming up, during which there are many foods we cannot eat, including anything made from or with wheat, barley, oats, rye, and spelt – collectively called hametz (or chametz). In my family’s tradition we are also not allowed to eat…
Get the latest happenings at Small Bites by Jessica, this week’s Link Love, and a Passover friendly Menu Plan Monday! Latest Happenings: Happy Monday! Spring has finally sprung in New York, and we enjoyed some time outdoors this weekend. Woohoo! Hopefully this beautiful weather continues all week, as the kids are off from school for Passover and we definitely want to…
This week’s Passover menu, recent media mentions, and Link Love! Hope everyone had a great weekend! We enjoyed our first couple of nights of Passover with family and friends. It was really fun watching the kids participate at the formal Passover meals because we sing a lot of songs and they got to show off everything they’ve learned in school….
Getting ready for Passover, plus this week’s Link Love and Menu Plan Monday. This Friday starts the Jewish holiday of Passover, which celebrates the Exodus and freedom of the Jewish people from enslavement in Egypt. Passover is an eight day holiday that is celebrated with various traditions, the primary one being a change in our daily dietary habits, primarily not eating hametz…
A family favorite, classic chicken soup is soothing and delicious. Perfect to start any Jewish holiday meal or to cure a cold. A Jewish Tradition With the start of fall comes the Jewish holidays Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year), Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), and Sukkot (one of the three pilgrimage festivals). In my family, as in many Jewish…
Wow your guests with this elegantly presented Moroccan-inspired cornish hen stuffed with aromatic and flavorful quinoa. When entertaining, serving buffet style is a pretty easy way to go and it offers lots of benefits. Your dining room stays cleaner as you avoid bowls and plates of food being passed around, guests can mingle as they walk around the buffet to…
This Passover, celebrate a traditional holiday with out-of-the-box gourmet Kosher for Passover food and wine. Thank you to the Royal Wine Corp. for sending me a generous box of wine to sample over the Passover holiday. And thanks to Jay Buchsbaum for taking the time to answer my questions below! The Jewish holiday of Passover starts tonight with the first of…
Getting ready for Passover, recipes and links I loved from last week, and this week’s Menu Plan Monday! Hope everyone had a great weekend! Although it still doesn’t feel like spring (Saturday was 36 degrees!), we did some spring cleaning around here to get ready for Passover, which starts this Friday night. As the week progresses I’ll finish clearing the pantry…
Hope everyone had a great weekend and enjoyed Easter and Passover if you celebrated. We’re down to one day of Passover in our house – can’t believe it’s almost over and I have so many Passover-friendly recipes I have yet to make! Oh well. There’s always next year. Here’s what we’re eating this week: Week of April 21, 2014 Monday: Leftover…
The Jewish holiday of Passover starts tonight, which means this week’s menu will be filled with matzo, matzo, and more matzo. Sounds yummy, right?! (In case you don’t know about matzo, here’s an explanation.) All joking aside, I’m not one of the many people who thinks there is nothing but matzo, potatoes, and meat to eat on this holiday. If…
