Category: Holiday
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Adama Foundation and the Lighthouse Peace Initiative
Below is a note from Mahasti’s friend and fellow baker, Jeffrey Hamelman, about his experience working with the Adama Foundation in Uganda. It is a beautiful and powerful telling of his experience teaching Ugandans to bake bread. Dear Friends, I recently returned from Uganda, where I spent two weeks with another American baker, Sara Molinaro,…
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Gingerbread
Cookies are magic. We know it instinctively. It might be that some of us grew up believing that little elves who live in hollow trees make magic in the form of fudge stripes on shortbread. Or perhaps is the Christmas Eve ritual of leaving treats for old St. Nick. For me, the magic is in…
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Matzo Balls for Matzo Ball Soup
Recipe 4 large eggs 1 tsp Salt ½ tsp Black Pepper, ground 2 TBL Parsley, chopped ¼ cup Schmaltz (chicken fat), or melted shortening ¼ cup Chicken Stock 1 ¼ cup Matzo crackers, ground In a medium bowl whisk eggs. Add salt, pepper, parsley, schmaltz and chicken stock and mix until incorporated. Add Matzo meal…
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Collard Green Salad
Yum Collard Green Salad Recipe 3 large Collard leaves 2 TBL Oil ¼ cup chopped onion 1 medium tomato – about 1 cup, chopped 1 TBL Parsley, chopped 1 TBL cider vinegar ½ tsp salt Wash Collards in several rinses of cold water. Shake off the excess water and cut the leaves into 4-5 long…
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Lucky Foods – New Year’s Day
I am not superstitious. Not very much anyway. Though it is true, as a rule, that I don’t break mirrors, walk under ladders or open umbrellas indoors, and I certainly never, ever utter the name MacBeth aloud in a theatre. But despite what you may think, it’s not superstition – it’s practical magic. After all,…
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Gingerbread
Cookies are magic. We know it instinctively. It might be that some of us grew up believing that little elves who live in hollow trees make magic in the form of fudge stripes on shortbread and the like. For me, the magic is in the memory of family kitchens filled, especially at this time of…
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Royal Icing
This is a great icing for icing sugar cookies and gingerbread cut out cookies 1/3 cup Pasteurized Egg Whites 1 tsp Vanilla Extract 3-4 cups Powdered Sugar, sifted Beat the egg whites in the bowl of your stand mixer with the whisk attachment or with your hand-held mixer until the mixture looks frothy. Add the…
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Turkey Pot Pie with Buttermilk Sage Drop Biscuits
Every holiday has a unique set of traditions, of course, but Thanksgiving is special because it comes with an extra set of conventions for the flip side of the holiday. Naturally, there’s football, football and football, but there’s more: many families use the day after Thanksgiving to put up a Christmas Tree; there’s the annual…
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National Dessert Day
Words, as anyone who has said bumfuzzle aloud can tell you, are funny. How they came to be and where they came from can be amusing when not just strange. Consider dessert – as, of course, we hope you often do- that word comes from a French word, dessevir, meaning to remove what has been…
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National Food Service Worker’s Day
Today is a good day to reflect on one of the finest parts of Tomato Head – past and present; from the very beginning of our journey all the way through today we’ve attracted a lot of interesting people – not just the folks eating at our tables but also the many fine people who…