Top 10 Holiday Essentials
Six summers ago we gave up holidaying in hotels. It all just became too stressful – containing young children in public eating spaces for three meals a day, not having […]
Six summers ago we gave up holidaying in hotels. It all just became too stressful – containing young children in public eating spaces for three meals a day, not having […]
[…] itinerary, so that we had a day or two at each end of the Passover holiday to eat everywhere possible before we had to adhere to the dietary restrictions of […]
Last week I officially kicked off the holiday season with the smallest Thanksgiving turkey ever to grace my oven. Although most celebrations this year were unlike any other, or placed […]
[…] multiple toppings for a mix and match extravaganza (and a nod to Thanksgivukkah, my favourite new holiday). This is a first in a series of festive recipes I created with Mud Australia, whose pieces […]
[…] write this while taking a break from what I can only describe as an obsessive holiday baking session. It would be generous to say this baking frenzy happens only once […]
[…] our favourite Autumn dishes with you, ending the year with the first ever Building Feasts Holiday Party. To book seats at any of our evenings, simply click on the title […]
[…] me explain. Passover is an eight day Jewish festival that starts next Monday evening. The holiday commemorates the Exodus from Egypt, and during the eight days we eat nothing leavened […]
[…] Auntie Diane would pop over for a cup of tea a few days before the holiday, with a rather large empty tin in tow for my mother to fill with […]
Despite this holiday being one of my all time favourites to cook, it seems very remiss of me that I haven’t shared a menu for a while with you. Here […]
[…] Shortbread Cookie: every year I create a new iteration of an old idea for my holiday gifts. These cookies are a gift in many ways as the dough keeps in […]
[…] the only friends in the world who will house all six of us for a holiday. Some of this month’s roundup will obviously come from the Southern Hemisphere where we […]
[…] and lights, there were latkes. Because there is an unwritten rule around here that every holiday must be honoured with festive food, these crisp mouthfuls of fried potato joy are […]
Something happens to me around festivals and holidays. I become fixated on (a) seasonal baked good(s) and transform my kitchen into a gift making factory. Often I am not even […]
I always dread the first few weeks of January. Not because I pine for lazy holiday mornings, or because we are officially in the depths of winter, but because I […]
[…] finishes for the summer, and lacking any desire to tackle early morning departures over the holidays, I take the executive decision that summer camp is not for us. While I […]
The month long marathon of Jewish holidays is rapidly approaching and I am back in to the kitchen after weeks of traveling and barely cooking a meal. Rosh Hashana kicks […]