Prompt: Holiday Recipes

[runpunkrun]

Any holiday, celebration, or observance—for any time of year—if there's food you associate with it, let's hear about it!

To fill this prompt, you can:

1. Slide into the comments of this post and share a link to a recipe and why you like it.
2. Write up a favorite recipe and post it to the comm.
3. Post a review of a related product or cookbook to the comm.
4. Try someone's recipe and reply to their post (or comment) with any changes you made and how it turned out.

If you like deadlines, you have one month to fill this prompt!

If you don't like deadlines, there's no deadline, and you can participate whenever you want. (You can even go back and check out past prompts.)

As always, these prompts are just in case you need a little inspiration. During this time, you can continue to post to the comm even if it isn't related to the prompt.

Here's what's going on in the comments:

• Recommendations for Passover Products from j00j

Comments

[rosefox]

Haha, I didn't even see this prompt before posting my Rosh Hashanah challah recipe!

[runpunkrun]

Hah! We're clearly on the same wavelength here.

Passover Products

[j00j]

- We like the Yehuda gluten free matzo. My father in law has actually switched his entire Seder over to gf matzo, preferring the flavor over regular matzo, which greatly decreases the risk of cross contamination via breaking matzo (especially now that tiny humans are in the mix).
- Whether or not you observe Passover, this can be a good time to check a store that carries a lot of kosher products for desserts and condiments free of gluten-- some of the items that might normally use wheat as a thickener are available in a gf passover version.
- Anti-rec for Kosher for Passover gluten free pasta so far. We tried it once and it was even smaller than regular gluten free pasta and also just... weird. I think it suffers from the "you took out too many ingredients" phenomenon.

Re: Passover Products

[runpunkrun]

Am I right in thinking that "Kosher for Passover" also means those items are dairy free?

Re: Passover Products

[j00j]

Not quite. Tl;dr there are kosher categories that are likely to mean dairy free but Passover is a whole other thing. Kosher Pareve is the thing that means probably dairy free but check the ingredients. If it says kosher dairy it’s definitely not dairy free and don’t serve it to your dairy allergic peeps.

Disclaimer: I am not Jewish and my family members who are do not keep kosher, but we are label aware for a close friend who is observant and dairy allergic.

Longer: Passover is usually a meat meal for people who eat meat, so there will also be a lot of dairy free options for people whose observance include not eating dairy and meat in proximity. You’ll want to look for “kosher Parve” (this term means it doesn’t contain things considered to be meat or dairy according to Jewish dietary laws. Note that it is not synonymous with vegan bc it does not include things like fish) and check the ingredients list. https://www.kidswithfoodallergies.org/page/kosher-labeling-and-milk-or-dairy-allergy.aspx Kosher for Passover indicates it won’t contain leavened things, typically. Kosher for Passover matzo or pasta etc COULD contain wheat if gluten free is not specified. For more check out something like https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/what-is-kosher-for-passover/

Re: Passover Products

[runpunkrun]

Ah, I must have gotten tripped up by the no dairy with meat rule. I don't rely on kosher labeling when shopping because I know there are several kinds and clearly I'm not familiar enough with their differences.

Thanks for the explanation and the links!