In my continuing quest to uncover dried fruit and nut desserts for my Tu B’Shvat cooking class, I uncovered this little gem. These adorable little cookies are called “Meneinas” (pronounced Meh-NAY-nas) and they may be singly responsible for making me reverse my former position on not liking dried fruit desserts. I feel like Sam [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dried fruit’
Tu B’Shvat Cake
Posted in Cakes, tagged Dried fruit, Fruitcake, Holiday, Tu B'Shvat on January 12, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I have been very busy the past few days testing dessert recipes with dried fruits and nuts. This has been challenging on several fronts. In the first place these are not exactly my type of desserts. I typically answer to the calls of chocolate, mint, coconut or caramel. Secondly, we are trying to eat a bit lighter this month [...]
#36. Stollen and the visual learner.
Posted in Bread Bakers Apprentice Challenge, tagged Bread, Challah, Dried fruit, Holiday Breads on April 11, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Who knew that a German fruit filled bread could demonstrate my learning deficiencies so clearly? As I read through the recipe for Stollen, this week’s bread in Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, I knew that I had a real challenge on my hands. I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to [...]
#30. Basic Sourdough Bread – My Bread Bat Mitzvah
Posted in Bread Bakers Apprentice Challenge, tagged Bread, Bread Bat Mitzvah, Dried fruit, Sourdough on February 12, 2010 | 17 Comments »
There is a right of passage in the Jewish religion known as a Bar or Bat Mitzvah. When a young boy turns 13 he has a Bar Mitzvah and we say “Today you are a man.” For girls the age is 12 and it is called a Bat Mitzvah (we mature faster!). I feel that making [...]
