Showing posts with label Holiday Cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday Cooking. Show all posts

9/29/2011

Cooking for the New Year

Chernowitz Challah
After the meal - Honey Cake
Before the meal
 
Something wonderful happens when family sits together at a dressed up table for a holiday meal. It could be the anticipation from the night before - the smells of cooking pot roast, the cake, decorated and displayed, but off limits to itchy fingers, the late night preparations. It could be the recipe searches weeks before the holiday, preparations, shopping for seasonal ingredients. But what I have learned in the past few years of family life is that the energy and time that I devote to ensuring everything comes together shines brightly on the faces of those who sit with us during the festive meal. As any mom knows, there is nothing better than that.