Nava is 6 months old today. I’ve breastfed her approximately 1,800 times, she has consumed approximately 5,000 ounces – or 600 cups – or about one bathtub – of breastmilk from me, not including the 300+ ounces I’ve frozen. I’ve used nipple creams, breast gels, frozen cabbage leaves, and nipple shields. I’ve nursed through swollen, bleeding, and cracked …
In my early teens, I was obsessed with this magazine called YM – do you remember it? “Young and Modern.” Shortly after, I moved on to the slightly mature Seventeen and then to the ever-trampier Cosmopolitan. Like most young women, I looked at the pimple-free Cover Girl faces and toned-stomach beauties, agonizing over how they could possibly …
Purim is coming a little late for me this year. Just as I’m crawling out of my upside-down life, it wants to pull me back in. There used to be so much time. And then I went from student to professional. And then Adam got mono. Then I spent a weekend in New York and, …
Some days you have to eat cake. I don’t really like cake, so some days I have to eat scotchmallows from See’s Candies. Yesterday was one of those days. I drove to the mall to go shopping and eat candy but almost everything I tried on looked ugly. Or didn’t fit. I felt sad. My …
This year, I want to play the long game. Rosh HaShanah never really meant much to me. We didn’t celebrate it as a kid, and it wasn’t until I was 24 years old and living in Israel that I even discovered people had Rosh HaShanah seders. I was terrified at that table with Adam’s …
Matzo ball soup. Brisket. Four huge glasses of wine. Macaroons. Which of these things is not like the rest? Macaroons. I don’t trust any food that can survive a year in a little tin canister without molding. We left Egypt! Our food should expire, stale, lose flavor or, at least, evaporate. We deserve …
Lace cookies have been a well-loved post at myjerusalemkitchen. Every day, more of you come to my site for the Dark Chocolate, Almond & Orange Lace Cookies than any other recipe, and in 2011 and 2012, it was my top post. It’s no wonder really: these cookies are insanely addictive. Ruin, ruin, ruin your diet …
I apologize in advance for ruining your diet. I made these for a “healthy” dessert last night when I was craving something chocolatey. Coconut’s a fruit, right? Although individually they are not enough to ruin your diet, not being able to control yourself after eating just one might be. Ice cold balls of chewy coconut …
My friends introduced me to Lara. Well, to her bars at least. While I was getting stomach aches between classes from my Cliff bars (a personal issue, not trying to defame Cliff bars here), I never could have imagined a health bar with only natural ingredients (a personal preference, this is NOT a Lara Bar …
Yeah, right. Like I EVER go out anymore. BUT, even for those of us who don’t, some B vitamins and sugar are always well-loved. For those of us who do, there is nothing like this smoothie to clear out that dehydration. On super hot days in Jerusalem, this was my favorite smoothie to sip on while …
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