Welcome to another edition of the Real Food Holidays Blog Carnival – Hanukkah 2010. Link up your holiday recipes, share your menu ideas and tips.
Join the conversation by leaving your recipes in the comments below. Bloggers: link up your posts using the linky tools.
Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is an eight day holiday celebrating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after the successful Maccabean Revolt over the Seleucids (Syrain-Greeks – 2nd century BCE). The prominent ritual is the lighting of the Menorah each night. It is customary to eat foods fried or baked in oil to commemorate the miracle of the oil – the discovery in the Temple of a small flask of one days worth of pure olive oil that lasted eight days. Potato pancakes (latkes), doughnuts (sufganiyot and bimuelos), and dairy foods are popular at this time.
Bloggers
1. Share a post from your blog using the linky tool below.
2. Please link back to this post (Real Food Digest | Real Food Holidays – Hanukkah).
3. Leave a comment after linking.
If you don’t have a blog, please share your recipes and tips in the comments section.
Remember to keep it real – whole foods, without artificial ingredients, trans fats, and highly refined flours/sugars.
More Real Food Holidays:
Hi Lisa,
I just added my super yummy and nutrient-packed egg nog link. My kids love this stuff (it’s non-alcoholic, obviously!), and you can tweak it anyway you like. More cinnamon, no nutmeg, etc. Enjoy.
Kelly (p.s. Just tweeted a link to this post, too!)
Lisa, thanks for posting this! I’m going to share on Facebook. I am super excited about celebrating Hanukkah in NY this year!
I am sharing a creamy dip made with raw sour cream. This dip goes well with many dishes.
I’m sharing a recipe for wild fermented butternut squash kimchi! perfect to make in the fall and enjoy the bright colors and flavors on a cold winter day!
This is a recipe for Sweet Potato Latkes fried in delicious coconut oil! Sooooo yummy.
This is my great-grandma’s luchen kugel which I’ll be making later this week!
Thanks for hosting this, Lisa!
Here’s my contribution, a Chanukah staple in our home – homemade doughnuts! (Sorry, can’t link above because I don’t have an image to go with them…)
http://oceansofjoy.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/sufganiyot-filled-doughnuts/
Happy Chanukah!