Welcome to another edition of the Real Food Holidays Blog Carnival – Shavuot 2011. Link up your holiday recipes and 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.
Shavuot commemorates the day God gave the Torah to the nation of Israel at Mount Sinai and marks the end of the counting of the Omer – started at Passover. It is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three biblical pilgrimage festivals. As with many Jewish holidays, Shavuot has an agricultural component, celebrating the grain harvest. It is customary to serve dairy foods on Shavuot. Cheesecake, blintzes, and noodle kugels are popular dishes in Ahskenazi homes.
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 – Shavuot).
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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.
Find More Holiday Recipes at Previous Real Food Holidays Blog Carnivals:
Passover 2011
Sukkot 2010
Rosh Hashana 2010
Hannukah 2010
Say Cheesecake – Jewish Food | Gil Marks
Say Cheese: Recipes for Shavuot – Jewish Journal
Shavuot: A Feast for Body and Soul – Los Angeles Times
Homemade Blintzes Decoded – Jayne Cohen
Thanks for this roundup. Can’t wait to see what others share. I shared a recipe for a potato cheese gratin which is a year round favorite.
Shavuot is known for its cheesecake but many Jews eat meat, because it’s a holiday.
My understanding is that when the Torah was given, so were the laws of kashrut. So when it was time for the first meal, nobody had the proper tools to slaughter in a kosher manner, so there wasn’t any meat at that first meal.
Dan recently posted..Aloo Mutter Butter Paneer Potato- Peas and Cheese
Many thanks to Dan, of The Haggis and the Herring, for letting me know about this great site!
Glad you found it! There’s a Real Food Holidays Blog Carnival before each major Jewish Holiday.
I just posted a link to a blog post about this spring’s first lacto-fermented pickle: Radishes!