One of my favorite parts of the annual Eat Write Retreat food bloggers conference, is the Culinary Challenge. This year, all the participants registered by April 15th were sent boxes containing one of four Mystery Ingredients (along with a boatload of OXO tools to help us out). The challenge is to create at home,…
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Passover Chocolate Orange Mousse Torte
With Passover and Easter coming this weekend, I wanted to create a recipe that everyone could enjoy for dessert. Actually, I was thinking chocolate. Because, aren’t you? Really? And I got inspiration from a couple of different places that you might not immediately associate with each other. It’s kosher for Passover, dairy-free, and gluten-free. It’s…
Coconut Lime Macaroons
Six days down and two to go. The eight-day Passover holiday is nearly over and we’ve run through our cookies and our brownies and our sponge cakes. Time to make macaroons. I grew up thinking of macaroons (as opposed to the French macaron) as Passover cookies. My mother would buy a couple of cans…