Recipe for a Sweet New Year

On Rosh Hashanah, we welcome a new Jewish year.

We take a serious moral inventory and make plans to be better people, to live lives we are more proud of, to be the sort of Jews that God Himself would brag about, in the year to come.

We try to make amends for our moral and personal failures, and we throw our sins away as bread on the water.

We pray to be inscribed in what the Maccabeats called "The Book of Good Life" for the year to come, despite our shortcomings.

But perhaps most important of all, we express our hope for a good and sweet new year in the form of good and sweet foods!

So, without further ado, I give you...a recipe for a sweet new year!



APPETIZER: apples and honey

Apples (sliced), a few varieties

One or more good honeys for dipping


BREAD: round honey-craisin challah

1 cup water, 100-110 °F

1 Tbsp salt

1/4 cup sugar

1 packet active dry yeast

mix above and stand until yeast is active, about 10 minutes

4 eggs

1/4 cup butter

1/2 cup honey

1/4 cup white or light brown sugar

1 cup craisins

6 cups flour

mix above ingredients, kneading in flour 1 cup at a time

knead 10 minutes

rise 1 hour

punch down, knead, form into round shape

rise 1/2 hour

bake about 40 minutes in 350°F oven



ENTREE: vegetarian matzah ball soup with a southwest flair

Matzah ball soup mix (1 box)

Vegetable broth (1 box?)

Black beans (2 cans?)

Sweet corn (1 can?)

Fresh cilantro (1 bunch)

Diced peppers (red bell for sweetness, jalapeño for spice?)

Diced garlic (1 Tbsp?)

Cumin, chili powder, paprika to taste

Mix matzah balls according to package directions.

Add all ingredients to crock pot and allow to simmer!


SIDE: apple kugel

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/gluten-free-apple-kugel/


DESSERT: honey cake

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/recipe/honey-cake-for-rosh-hashanah/

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