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09/16/2001 Archived Entry: "Jewish New Year Recipes"

The Jewish New Year starts tomorrow night, a two-day celebration for which the best china, crystal, silver, table linens – everything the best, including the most festive foods, are called for at the table.

I wish all my Jewish friends-of-the-maven a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year, a sweet New Year. For that matter, I wish everyone, no matter their faith, all my very best wishes. I hope that we can remember that we all worship the same God, and that any differences we have are mere matters of detail, different ways of expressing the same message of love and tolerance preached by all religions. May we all live in peace.

Now to the food:

There are several recipes already on The Food Maven web-site that you may be interested in for Rosh Hashonah.

Most recently, I featured My Most Favorite Brownies, which are parve if you make them with margarine and non-dairy kosher chocolate. Pareve means the dish contains no dairy and therefore can be served with meat, which is usually the main course on Rosh Hashonah.

Another pareve dessert is A Simple Apple Cake. It’s very homey, not necessarily for a feastive meal, but it is very delicious and extremely simple to make.

Jerusalem Kugel is a caramel-sweetened, as well as peppery noodle pudding that is generally made for the Sabbath, but also an excellent starch dish for the Rosh Hashonah table, particularly because sweet foods are a traditional symbol “to insure a sweet year.”

Speaking of traditional Rosh Hashonah sweet dishes … The word Tsimmis means a fuss in Yiddish, but it really isn’t such a fuss to make this casserole of meat, sweet potatoes, carrots, and prunes. There are many versions of Tsimmis. This recipe is simply my family’s favorite.

I am constantly asked how I make my brisket, Jewish-Style Pot-Roasted Brisket to be specific. Well, that recipe has been on this web-site since Day One. It’s not only one of my listeners favorite questions. It’s one of their favorite recipes.

Yom Kippur is a fast day, but once the fast is over many family’s indulge in a feast. At our house, as at many homes, we have a dairy meal – smoked fish, pickled fish, fish salads, platters of garden vegetables, cheeses, bagels, bialies … all the foods one might eat for a big Sunday breakfast/brunch. Then, after all that, we eat My Grandmother’s Yom Kippur Noodle Pudding. It is extremely rich with butter, eggs, and pot cheese but, after all, we eat it only once a year.