Purim

We were busy today making our Shalach Manot baskets. We made hamentashen and molasses cookies and added apples and tea. The hamentashen was a recipe from kosher.com (where I get my kosher organic meat!). I actually made two recipes - one was their parve one that I thought was a bit dry and then I made the dairy one w coconut oil instead of butter and it came out really well. The recipe is:

4 cups sifted flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
4 eggs
1 cup honey
1/2 cup coconut oil
1 egg yolk mixed w 1 tbsp water

Preheat oven to 350. IN bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. Make a well int he center and add the eggs. Mix slightly, then add honey. Mix slightly and add coconute oil. Then mix to combine. Mix w mixer until thick enough to roll out. Roll to 1/4 inch thickness. Make 3" diameter circles (I used an old jelly jar), place tsp of jelly (I used Bonne Mama apricot jelly) and pinch seams together to form triangle shpae. Brush tops w diluted egg yoke mixture. Bake 15-20 mins until lightly brown. Makes about 2 dozen.

There was a dinner tonight that was fun. Yesterday there was a magic show for the kids during the megillah reading. Yoav was so funny - at one point, he whispered to me, "I'm going to get a prize. You know that? Because he said anyone who's really quiet will get a prize at the end and I'm being really quiet." So funny. Bribery in action on a child who's never been bribed ;)


Yoav went as a rocket - I made the costume (his idea) out of boxes and put the paper on for him to decorate - was a great activity b/c it took him an hour or so to decorate it ;)