These recipes come to us from our friend Yocheved Adelman of the Chabad House of Amherst. Chabad House hosts seders for students and community members each Passover and serves Kosher meals for students throughout the holiday. All are welcome.* The first is for charoses, one of the foods served at the Passover Seder, a meal replete with meaning and ritual, a remembrance and celebration… Read more →
It was obvious, once we thought of it. We posted this recipe when Aaron Diehl, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and Adam Birnbaum, backed by a five-piece jazz ensemble, came to the FAC to perform Gershwin and Jelly Roll Morton tunes. This one comes from a vintage Better Homes and Gardens cookbook (the iconic one with the red-checked cover that has been through umpteen editions). Although… Read more →
The origin of this recipe is the combination cookbook–art catalog If You Make a Mistake, Put a Rose on It, by UMass art professor emerita Pat Lasch and her dad Fred Lasch, a master pastry maker. Pat’s art is in such major museums as the Metropolitan (below, her “Bound in the Bardo” sculpture, and yes, that is a bat skeleton). Over the years, we’ve… Read more →
Lynne Dyer of Turners Falls, Massachusetts, took the gold with this recipe in the fourth annual King Arthur Flour Holiday Cookie Baking Contest at Historic Deerfield. Contestants sent in recipes, then five finalists in several categories, including “Raise the Bar” and “Cookie-cutter Cookies,” were invited to bring their submissions to the village on December 3. There the entries were judged on taste, appearance, festiveness, originality, and overall appeal.… Read more →
