I love baking bread and I think that I have found the world’s easiest Challah recipe. It turns out every single time. Tonight there is an Oneg Shabbat at Oraynu and I made 5 little challot for each one of the tables.

I’m intoxicated by the smell of baking bread. I’m also making mashed potatoes with griebens as my contribution to the pot luck. I have been perfecting my schmalz making. It’s a lost art. Rendered chicken fat infused with the flavour of caramelized onion….it’s spectacular when added to mashed potatoes. The Yiddishe Mama is convinced that this is now the tastiest mashed spuds ever.