{"id":10078,"date":"2016-09-30T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=10078"},"modified":"2016-09-29T23:07:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T03:07:41","slug":"enjoy-sweet-kugel-jewish-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/enjoy-sweet-kugel-jewish-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy a Sweet Kugel this Jewish New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) starts this Sunday night and for those who are unfamiliar with the religion or the holiday, here is the ‘cole notes’ version.<\/p>\n
Jewish New Year provides us with a new beggining. A time to make amends but more importantly, prepare for the year ahead. When it comes to the Jewish New Year, and most Jewish holiday celebrations in general, food plays a very important part. Not only because the holidays are meant to be celebrated by eating a big feast with family, friends (and even strangers), but also because we eat a lot of symbolic foods that tie in to the theme of the holiday and are specific for the season.<\/p>\n
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Some of the symbolic foods for Rosh Hashana include:<\/p>\n
We generally tend to plan our meal around these aforementioned concepts. Namely, we try to eat very sweet dishes. A good friend of mine, who was one of the first friends I made when I moved to Canada in 1989, agreed to share her mom’s Noodle Pudding (aka Lokshin Kugel) recipe with my readers.<\/p>\n
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Together with her mom and son (who was home sick), they cooked this sweet dish together which is exactly what the Jewish holidays are all about; gathering of the family and reminiscing over traditions. Preparing for the holiday\u00a0meals is a big part of that, especially when it’s across multiple generations like my friend’s experience.<\/p>\n