Today is April 3, 2025 / /
Today is April 3, 2025 / /
Cover a cookie pan with aluminum foil (makes it easier to clean up later) Line the cookie pan with matzahs. Ok if they overlap a little. Melt the margarine with the brown sugar until it starts to boil. Pour this mixture over the matzahs and bake at 375 degrees for 7 minutes. Take the pan Continue Reading »
Great dish for hol hamoed Pesach- Russian Potato and Mushroom Croquettes 1½ lbs potatoes, peeled and chopped 5 cups water 1 onion, peeled and chopped ¼ lb mushrooms 1 tsp oil 1 Tbsp water salt/pepper to taste 1 cup matzo meal 1 Tbsp oil Boil potatoes in water until tender. Drain and mash potatoes. In Continue Reading »
FROM THE NY DAILY NEWS Food More and more creative chefs and entrepreneurs are expanding the range and quality of kosher foods Restaurants like Pardes in Brooklyn and JSoHo in Manhattan turn out dishes made with lamb or veal ‘bacon’ By Michael Kaminer / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Kielbasa. Bacon cheeseburgers. Texas BBQ. Oy, this Continue Reading »
In THE LAWS OF PESACH by the family of the late Rabbi A Blumenkrantz, on page 250, they write the following: Starch is used to bind the briquettes. Some companies use wheat starch. Also, some companies use recycled charcoal, which was used to filter whiskey. People should, therefore, not use charcoal briquettes on Pesach to Continue Reading »
No matter how hard we have searched, we have never found any evidence that points to extraordinarily large olives in days of yore. Olives have remained pretty much consistently the same size (and there are different sized olives) over the millenia. Similarly, the size of eggs as referenced in rabbinic texts were much smaller than Continue Reading »
A TRANSLATION OF HIS FAMOUS TSHUVAH ON PEANUTS “Concerning peanuts, which were called stashkes in Europe—they have been accepted as being permitted on Pesach and are not considered kitniyos (legumes that are forbidden on Pesach) because all the reasons for the prohibition of kitniyos do not apply to peanuts. Peanuts are not sown in fields Continue Reading »
FROM KOSHER SCOOP Ingredients Meat Filling 1 large Spanish onion, diced oil for sautéing 1/2 lb (225 grams) ground beef 4 Tbsp ketchup 1 tsp brown sugar salt and pepper, to taste Potato Mixture 3/4 cup oil 3 eggs 6–7 large Idaho potatoes 1 small onion, peeled 2 Tbsp salt, or to taste 1 tsp Continue Reading »
OUR POSITION ON KITNIYOT DERIVATIVES KITNIYOT Perhaps no issue stirs as much debate as the debate swirling around kitniyot- generally translated as legumes. According to Ashenazi custom and law, we are not allowed to eat kitniyot on Pesach. Rabbi Yosef Karo, the creator of the Shulchan Aruch called the custom of not eating kitniyot a Continue Reading »
Not everything needs a Pesach certification. A few years back we wrote about a widow cleaner that was certified KP. As we saw it, it meant that if you ran out of dishes for your meal, you could use a window as a ready stand-in. But seriously folks, many things do not need special Pesach Continue Reading »
These are incredible! Everyone is surprised that they are really Pesachdik!! Make a double batch for sure! PASSOVER TOFFEE SQUARES 1 Cup Parve Margarine 1 Cup Matzah Cake Meal 1 Egg 8 oz Chocolate Chips (pareve), melted 1 teaspoon Vanilla 1 Cup Walnuts, finely chopped 1 Cup Sugar Cream margarine, sugar, vanilla until light and Continue Reading »
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