When holidays like Yom Kippur begin on a weekday evening, it’s sometimes a scramble to get a proper and filling meal on the table with enough time left over to actually enjoy it. I get it. If you have an Instant Pot Multi-Cooker, though, you can have this beautiful brisket main dish on the table…
rosh hashana
Slow Cooker Sweet & Savory Brisket
So, here’s what happened: It was late morning, and I suddenly realized that I hadn’t defrosted the brisket for the big Rosh Hashana meal that evening. Panic set in! I took the brisket out of the freezer – a rock-hard frozen slab o’ meat – and throwing caution to the wind, put it in…
Eastern European Apple Cake
The theme of apples and sweetness continues through the coming weeks, as we move from the Jewish Holy Days, on through the holiday of Sukkot. Sukkot (or Succos), translates as “Feast of Tabernacles”, and commemorates the Jewish people’s 40 years of wandering in the desert between being released from bondage in Egypt to finally…