Sunday, December 2, 2012
Give it up for latkes, applesauce and brisket.
This article originally ran in December of 2011. The winter holidays are upon us. Oh joy! In our house, that means scrambling to find gifts my kids might actually need and making brisket and applesauce from scratch and latkes out of the box. I know it’s heresy to use potato pancake mix and many of you foodies out there are probably gathering your potatoes and onions already. Go ahead. I have spent many nights, whipping out the food processor, peeling the potatoes, slicing them up so they fit down the chute, letting the processor grate them into mushy bits and then spooning them into a pan of hot oil, exhausted but secure in the knowledge in that I have peeled the potatoes myself and my family might love me more for it. But I’ve found …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The Jewish holiday begins a little early this year.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Mark your calendars for the 25th day of the month of Kislev. That's when Hanukkah starts in 2012. For those of us who aren't so tuned into the Jewish calendar, that translates to sundown on Saturday Dec. 8. The holiday, also called the Festival of Lights, lasts eight days. Hanukkah commemorates the story of the Maccabean Revolt against Syrian rulers in present day Israel 2,300 years ago. The Maccabees wanted to rededicate Jerusalem's main temple but had only enough oil to kindle the Eternal Light for one day. Yet the oil lasted for eight, according to the story, and thus the holiday of Hanukkah was born. Today Jews generally celebrate by gathering together with family, lighting a menorah over the course of eight days, playing dreidel and…
Monday, December 19, 2011
Robin Greenstein and Cecilia Kirtland perform a culturally rich repertoire of holiday music at the Bloomfield Public Library.
The customary greeting for this time of year has become “Happy Holidays” because holidays mean much more than just Christmas. For over a decade, Robin Greenstein and Cecilia Kirtland have been performing “Songs of the Season”, a multi-cultural holiday music show that celebrates all the holidays, not just the tradtional Christmas. This Saturday they brought their show to the Bloomfield public library. The pair said they met originally at the Guitar Workshop in Roslyn, New York when they were teenagers. They went on to become teachers and put together a concert program based on their holiday traditions (Greenstein is Jewish and Kirtland is half-Chilean). In 2000, "Songs of the Season" was born. For their performance at the library, the…
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Laura Zinn Fromm
1:56 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
If you drop the hard the brown sugar into the pot with the brisket, you can skip microwaving it first. Good luck, M2BW! more ›