Turkey Challahs

Happy Thanksgiving! Today’s turkey challah tutorial is a guest post by my cousin Ita. Besides for being a baker in her community, Ita teaches girls and women to play Jewish music on piano using her easy and fun method. You can find free tutorials and sheet music on her blog at www.playjewishmusic.com.
Whether you’ve never played a note in your life or you’ve been playing for years, learning to play Jewish music on piano should be fun!

Eggplant Salad

This is deeeeelicious! My husband raves about this salad.

In Israel, it's all about the salads. Not like lettuce salads, though. They are more like small bowls of random salads and dips, like cooked beets and peppers and tomatoes. My neighbor's main dish Friday night is her eggplant dips. She spends hours making different dips made from eggplants/chatzilim, and the punch line is that she doesn't even like eggplant! She makes them for her husband and boys, bless her.

Challah

Update on Life: Daughter vomited Motzei Shabbos (Saturday night), so I decided to keep her home with me on Sunday, just in case she was sick. I was afraid to spend the whole day alone with my precious ball of energy….yes, very afraid! In the end, we had fun and even bonded. We went to the shopping center, along with son (of course!), to buy new shoes. We found the perfect pair of sneakers right away, but of course she wanted to try on all the formal shoes before we left (not kidding!). The shoe place gave her a balloon afterwards. She was ecstatic! We had our very first mother/daughter shopping experience. I’m psyched about it, if you can’t tell.  

As for the Challah…let’s get started! Women (and gentlemen) get prepared to get sticky with dough :).