Category: Shavuos
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Simple No-Cook Salmon Appetizer
There are times that a simple no-cook appetizer is the way to go. Like, when there are six Yom Tov (holiday) meals in a row and you’re looking for a new creative way to serve an appetizer with minimal effort. The upcoming Shavuos holiday comes on the heels of a Shabbos, calling for six consecutive…
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Basil Pesto Butter
It was a luncheon to remember. The food was delicious, colorful and plentiful. The camaraderie among the adults and the kids was remarkable. But, there was one stand-out rockstar at that luncheon. It was the herbed butter.
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Simply Perfect and Healthier Cheesecake
Shavuos is the holiday that we literally count the days toward its arrival. We count 49 days (seven weeks) from Pesach (Passover) to Shavuos, blessing the sefira (counting) every evening from the second night of Pesach until Shavuos begins. From a culinary perspective, many of us count the days until we can enjoy the delicious…
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Simple Cheesy Zucchini Logs: Gluten Free and Low-Carb
Davida and her friend, Chava, made delicious calzones for Melave Malke a few weeks ago: Davida’s Easy and Delicious Calzones for a Melave Malka Feast. Although the calzones looked and smelled heavenly, Don and I were only able to enjoy them vicariously. Since we are still on low-carb diets, we needed to find an alternative cheesy…
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Simple and Easy 5-Ingredient No-Boil Lasagna
This is the simplest and most delicious lasagna recipe that you will ever make. It requires one mixing bowl and one baking lasagna pan with no boiling . It creates a firm and easy to slice lasagna with minimal effort and mess. It takes only a few minutes to prepare and one hour…
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Simple Mini Cheesecakes with Gorgeous Garnishes
Shavuos is on its way! Cheesecake is one of the staples of the upcoming holiday of Shavuos, since we are commanded to eat dairy foods at our festive meals (Countdown to Shavuos: Floral Inspirations and Dairy Recipes) on Shavuos. This year, Don and I are still on a low-carb diet. We didn’t want to…
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A Few Good Blossoms: Floating Arrangements
I began this SimpletoWow blog in January with an original post, It’s all about the arrangement (psst….even with last week’s roses), on arranging last week’s open and just-wilting roses. It was intended to showcase simple and wow ways to use what you have in surprising and unexpected ways. As the Jewish holiday of Shavuos approaches (see Countdown…
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Upcycled Glass Jar Floral Arrangement: Simply Stunning
My friend Marilyn, and her family joined us for a meal over Pesach (Passover). Since we were in a small apartment in Jerusalem with our extended family, we did not have enough room to host everyone in the dining room. Instead, we set up tables and ate in the courtyard. Marilyn sent flowers before Yom Tov…
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Bekurim: First Fruits from Hollister
This morning, on my return from my morning walk, my neighbor, Hollister, surprised me with a wonderful gift. He handed me a bag with the first heads of lettuce harvested from his vegetable garden. I protested that he should keep this precious first harvest for himself, but he insisted that he wanted me to have…
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Countdown to Shavuos: Floral Inspirations and Dairy Recipes
We are commanded to count 49 days or 7 weeks of sefira (counting) from Pesach until the holiday of Shavuos. Every night after it gets dark, we make a bracha and count one more day toward Shavuos. While Pesach commemorates our becoming a nation and our freedom after our miraculous exodus from Egypt, Shavuos commemorates our…