Passover starts tomorrow (Monday) night, beginning a week of probably the most food-centric holiday on the Jewish calendar. To mark the passing of our ancestors from bondage to freedom, and the haste in which that was accomplished (read your Exodus, people… No, the Bible, not the Leon Uris novel!), we are prohibited from…
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Can Jam 3: Alliums
Yes, indeedy! Alliums. According to Webster’s: any of a large genus (Allium) of bulbous herbs of the lily family including the onion, garlic, chive, leek, and shallot. Another low-acid food was assigned to us for this month’s Tigress’ Can Jam. But I love every member of this family, so I was pretty excited. And had…
Colcannon Recipe for St. Patrick’s Day
Did you ever eat Colcannon When ’twas made with yellow cream? And the kale and praties blended Like a picture in a dream? Did you ever take a forkful And dip it in the lake Of heather-flavored butter That your mother used to make? Oh, you did! Yes, you did! And so did he,…
