3 Delicious Ways to Break the Yom Kippur Fast! For plenty of people who observe Yom Kippur, the vision of a table full of smoked salmon, bagels, and sweet eggy kugel sustains them through a day of fasting and contemplation. There’s only one problem with the break-the-fast feast: Who has the energy to execute one when you have spent the last 24 hours hungry? Never fear: I put together three time-saving strategies so you can serve up a break-the-fast feast without breaking a sweat. Skip the blintzes; make a sweet strata instead. Dairy foods like blintzes are a traditional part of the meal, but who has the time to cook up dozens of perfectly thin crêpes, stuff them with farmer’s cheese, and fry them up in butter? You’ll get the same sweet, eggy flavors a Lemon-Raspberry French Toast Strata, which you can assemble the day before and pop into the oven just 45 minutes before you’re ready to serve it! Accessorize your deli spread with easy sides. Ordering a platter of smoked fish, bagels, and cream cheese is a time-honored tradition—it’s festive, effortless, and easy on the belly. Most folks pair the platter with time-consuming homemade dishes like kugel. An easier option? Pull together a couple of easy and healthy Mediterranean sides. Think store-bought hummus with a drizzle of olive oil, thick Greek yogurt with diced cucumber and dill mixed in; a dish of marinated olives, and a simple Israeli salad. Done! Use storebought puff pastry to make fast rugelach: These tender, buttery cookies are a Jewish holiday classic. But most recipes call for a cream-cheese-based dough, which is deliciously flaky and tender, but takes hours to make, chill, and roll out. Instead, you can score the same flakiness by using storebought puff pastry. Just thaw, fill with a simple mix of apricot jam, nuts, raisins, and cinnamon sugar, roll, and bake. Since the dough is so rich, these cookies will keep for a few days—just make sure to stash them in a secure location to protect against rugelach thieves. Gmar Hatimah Tovah !
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:07:05 +0000
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