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Christmas Recipes

Tie-Dyed Christmas Cookies and Coquito

Are you really going to tell me that you don’t want melt in your mouth sugar cookies and cinnamon, coconut, and rum to wash it down with, right this very moment? Because I don’t believe you.

Carmen Phillips December 17, 2023 6 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Gey In Kikh: Passover Matzo, the Bread of Affliction

The basic mitzvah of Passover is to eat the Bread of Affliction, so let’s lean into the ancestral trauma and make our own matzo.

Ari April 6, 2020 13 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Gey in Kikh: Easy Pizza Hamantaschen for Purim

With a side of festive demons!

Ari March 9, 2020 4 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Gey in Kikh: Seven Species Babka for Tu B’Shevat

Seven fruits and grains combine in a quick-rise babka to celebrate the Jewish New Year of the Trees.

Ari February 6, 2020 3 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Gey in Kikh: Happy New Year!

Celebrate the New Year with Soviet mayonnaise.

Ari December 30, 2019 12 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Gey in Kikh: Rainbow Latkes and Narrow Bridge Candles for Hanukkah

Why have plain latkes when we can have RAINBOW latkes?!

Ari December 9, 2019 13 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Gey in Kikh: Melon Seed Milk to Break the Yom Kippur Fast

Let’s end Yom Kippur with delicious, non-dairy milk made from melons!

Ari October 4, 2019 2 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Gey in Kikh: Apple-Stuffed Challah for Rosh Hashanah!

Taste a whole celebration of fall and a new year in every bite of my favorite challah!

Ari September 26, 2019 24 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Make Easy No-Bake Vegan Orange Almond Cheesecake for Shavuot, Yum

It’s cheesecake holiday time, let’s make some cheesecake.

Ari June 7, 2019 8 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Vegetarian Chopped Liver and Pynk Pickled Eggs for Passover: A Two-Part Recipe

This vegetarian, kitniyot-free vegetarian chopped liver feels really homey and comfortable and hearty and celebratory. Chag Pesach sameach!

Ari April 19, 2019 4 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

The Lazy Jewish Queer’s Guide to Rainbow Hamantaschen for Purim

Purim is a party, so let’s make a big batch of rainbow hamantaschen to celebrate!

Ari March 20, 2019 15 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Happy Hanukkah, Let’s Make Vegan Sufganiyot

Happy Hanukkah! Celebrate the holiday, which starts tonight at sundown, with a recipe for delicious vegan sufganiyot.

Ari December 2, 2018 25 Comments
Christmas Recipes

Femme Brûlée: Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Brownies

Brownies are fudgey and cakey, good warm or cold, you can put basically anything in them, they travel nicely, and go with everything from coffee to ice cream to emotional breakdowns when your party ends and you see all the cleaning that has to be done and need edible support. Perfect.

Reneice Charles December 9, 2017 19 Comments
Recipes Thanksgiving

Friendsgiving Challenge #3: Let’s Talk (Not) Turkey

You’re looking for an impressive quick-cooking, small-scale main dish that was chosen just for you by Cat Cora her very self? WELL THAT’S THIS.

Cat Cora November 21, 2017 21 Comments
Recipes Thanksgiving

Friendsgiving Challenge #2: A Dessert You Can Also Eat for Breakfast

Vegetarian with allergies to nuts, coconuts, and sesame seeds? Well Julia Turshen has a delicious warm dessert (or breakfast!) for you!

Julia Turshen November 17, 2017 13 Comments
Recipes Thanksgiving

Friendsgiving Challenge #1: Real Friendship is Working Around Everyone’s Dietary Restrictions

Kyle’s created a full Friendsgiving menu that accommodates about a dozen dietary restrictions, and she’s used an impressive graphing system to make it happen.

Kyle Cornforth November 16, 2017 25 Comments
Recipes Thanksgiving

Femme Brûlée: Pumpkin Pie

Despite all the potential for error, I do genuinely think it’s still worth it to make pies.

Reneice Charles November 11, 2017 18 Comments
Recipes Thanksgiving

How To Cook Vegducken (Or: How to Spend Thanksgiving Heartsick and Far From Home)

“I get up off the floor, reach for a long, heavy leek and a cutting board and my favorite knife, its weight in my palm like an amulet. I feel like a stranger in my own life, but I have seven hours and eight dishes left. There is work to be done.”

Maree November 22, 2016 29 Comments
Christmas Recipes

I Made Tamales With My Mom for Christmas; Here’s How You Can Too

For me, making tamales is a way for me to connect with my mother, to feel like her daughter, and to take parts of herself that she’s passing down and make them a part of myself.

Mey December 21, 2015 23 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Get Fried (for Hanukkah!) with Latkes

Latkes are really easy, can be made with everything found in a severely understocked kitchen, and everyone likes them because they are literally just fried potatoes and everyone loves fried potatoes.

Chloe December 8, 2015 32 Comments
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