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Spiced Walnut and Eggnog Challah
One of the benefits to being an agnostic, atheistic, cynical type, is the flexibility one has with one’s holidays. You can analyze what you’re really celebrating for and how you want to do that, if you want to at all. Do I want to stick to my more beloved traditions? Yes! Do I also want to steal bits and pieces from everything and everywhere to handcraft my perfect, customized winter holiday that has everything I want and nothing I don’t? Also yes. Does that mean taking Jewish cuisine and infecting it with modern Christian tradition to be eaten at a heathen’s table? You bet your butt. In all honesty, I don’t…
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Poached Pear and Spice Loaf — Baking into Autumn
I didn’t realize how desperately I had starved for a true Autumn until it arrived. “Alaska in the fall” doesn’t really exist beyond the three days you may see yellow leaves before everything’s hastily buried in snow. Existing slightly closer to the equator has given me the classic gradual slope of changing seasons, and my kitchen is a happy reflection of it all. Spiced teas, pumpkin cakes, and an abundance of colorful squashes will be present in my next few posts, so get ready! Today, we’re kicking off with a recipe that just so happened to go really well on the very first attempt–a welcomed and rare miracle. So it’s…