I know, it's not Friday yet, but I've missed my 'Friday Food and Favorites' posts, and since so many of you are baking challah this week, I figured I'd post a yummy recipe. For those of you who aren't familiar, the week after Passover we have a special custom to bake challah with a key embedded in it as a 'segula' for wealth and for any other special thing we may need in our lives. To see my post about this custom from last year click HERE.
To the Jewish woman, baking challah is not just simply baking challah. There is a special spiritual component to it that brings baking a loaf of bread to a higher level. The ability to take basic and bland ingredients and combine them to form a warm, delicious and nutritionally sustaining food makes us partners with Hashem! And it becomes a wonderful opportunity to pray for whatever we may want and need.
Here is a recipe from a blogger friend that she customized herself. Gigi has a cool blog that combines her love of food and cooking with her love of beauty and makeup. That's a great combination, don't you think? Check out her recipe and her blog Gigi's Kitchen HERE.
Now for my favorites. As long as we're on a spiritual note, one of the proofs to me, that we are supposed to seek happiness and enjoy the beauty in this world, is that our world is full of color. The world could easily be black and white, but color abounds everywhere. All you need is to open your eyes to all the beauty and color around you to find a little piece of joy in the simple and mundane.
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I used to bake a loaf of challah every week I miss making it. I had a Jewish stepfather who loved it! Sweets and bread in our family.
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Debra~
This post is amazing for two reasons. 1- That challah looks SCRUMPTIOUS!!!!!!!! 2. The colorful posts are so cheery and inspiring! I really love the look with the colorful fur piece! So awesome!
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so beautifully braided this bread, Sharon, good skills you have there! Your recipe and look of the challah is similar to the Czech christmas bread we bake with butter instead of oil (of course, we are slavic and butter goes with everything). We also add almond chips on top...I always loved this bread and will try yours for sure...never made Challah before...time to try it! Thanks for sharing and all the colourful loveliness in your post...especially since the grass here is still brown and nothing at all is blossoming...Calgary has NO SPRING and I try to survive that ugly transition time as best as I can with images of beauty in my head or my Ipad ((:
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Sharon,
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pictures! Love all these colors. You inspiring me to wear color this weekend.
Hope you get to enjoy your challah. I love knowing more about it. It looks so good!
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Kim
Thank you for your visit to Tassels, Sharon . That bread looks like an art work and delish!! Lovely pics!
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Love all that color..just beautiful. And your bread is fabulous, almost too pretty to eat (but I think I could manage) Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteI'm so in love with all those vibrant colors! Have a nice weekend!
ReplyDeleteWell as you can tell by my post, I am having a colorful weekend :)
ReplyDeletesecond saturated photo of the gals and the flowers are my favorite! i am not Jewish, but I do love Challah bread and i don't know if it is disrespectful because I am not sure of the importance of this certain bread, but challah makes the best bread for french toast on saturday mornings.
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ReplyDeleteI hope your weekend is full of color as well ;)
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Miranda
Oooooh challah! Just adore it. And the COLOR - yes! Thank you for the beautiful post.
ReplyDeleteOver the holidays I prepared a yummy french toast recipe that called for challah. It was SOOO good! Sharon, I am so impressed with how beautiful your bread looks. It's not easy to make GOOD bread. I'll bet it smells wonderful as it's cooking.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed all the colors in this post. It's still rainy and cold here in the Pacific Northwest.
Have a great weekend!
leslie
Does anybody have a recipe for gluten free challah? I really miss it and trying to make a challah-shape loaf with ordinary gluten free bread mix really doesn't cut it..:-(
ReplyDeleteHelena I haven't tried this one but it looks like it may be a good one: http://glutenfreecanteen.com/2011/09/11/rosh-hashanah-challah-gluten-free-dairy-free/
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Sharon
Great post - I love all this colour - it's so cheerful. Nice selection of photos.
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what's a nice post, lovely colors, great inspirations
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Great interview and video! Love Allison's style and the colorful fashion too! Perfect for a gloomy Sunday.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the yummy recipe. Someday I will be brave and try this, but I'm not a a great breadmaker (I know my limits). So meanwhile I will continue cheating with the frozen challah dough I "quick rise" and then pop in the oven (or if I'm running out of time, I just buy it)!