View of Shabbat - November 30th - Baklava Challah

Oh hi, little blog. We miss you, but we don't miss challah. We've been lovingly making challah as of late, but with grad school and a sick family member, we've been doing a lot of plain, perfect challah. A few weeks ago, The Hazz made a sweet honey syrup and covered a challah with it! Wow. Wow. We enjoyed a challah that night that was almost like Baklava.

Don't a have a sweet husband?

Birthday Treat (Anyone still there?)

I promise I'm still around, haverim.  Things have just been a little challenging lately.  We're dealing with some major transitions at Beit Stein, including the start of my doctoral program among others.  We promise, we're still around and still making challah.

But we've just been so uncreative lately.  With the craziness of the holidays and starting a PhD program, plain, basic, delicious regular old challah is all that's been acceptable in our house.  Any ideas for some new recipes?  Request for clarifications on old favorites?  It's TOUGH to make a new recipe every week... failing a few times has taught me NOT to just make new recipes for the heck of it, but make them because I truly want to get creative with challah.

So, bear with us.  Stay tuned.  Don't take us out of your Google Reader yet.  We're still here.  Today is The Hazz's birthday.  Besides a cake and mac n'cheese (which I think he agreed to partially because I like it), he gets sprinkle challah.  Because he's just that awesome.


Shabbat Shalom from our bayit to yours!

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Basic Small Batch and one with chocolate chips and cinnamon chips kneaded in! We still do round challot until Simchat Torah. What is your custom in YOUR home?

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Pssst... make sure to check out our post on the history and a how-to for spiral challot.  Today, we're having a basic (with extra honey).  And The Hazz made a delicious mixed herb with olive oil... all herbs from our garden!

Shabbat Shalom from our Bayit to yours!