http://www.theparvebaker.com "No flour, no Torah; no Torah, no flour." - Pirkei Avot 3:21 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:46:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's nothing like trying to take a photo of your Pumpkin Pecan Pie just before the pie monsters arrive to insure that not only will the batteries in the camera be dead, but so will the spare ones in the charger. Several hours and a bountiful Thanksgiving dinner later, the batteries are ready to ... http://www.theparvebaker.com/?p=289 I’ve often told the story of how The Parve Baker got started. Basically, I was living in New York and doing a lot of baking for friends and community events. People would ask me for my recipes. I’d say no, thinking that if I shared them, others would start making ... http://www.theparvebaker.com/?p=287 Has it really been almost two months since my last post? I guess so, since I was deep in my annual hamantaschen conundrum and now we're more than three weeks into counting the omer. Yeesh. It's not that I haven't been baking. A lot. At one point, I had an entire case of ... http://www.theparvebaker.com/?p=278 Always be careful what you write in a blog post. It will not be the end of the story. Especially if it’s about hamantaschen. Last year around this time, I admitted that I hadn’t made any in long time. A lot of people didn’t believe me. A few were outraged. As ... http://www.theparvebaker.com/?p=277 When I was growing up, there was a girl who lived in our neighborhood who nobody liked. When I say nobody, what I really mean is other kids, that is, most girls our age. It’s not that she didn’t have any friends. She had at least one good friend whose ... http://www.theparvebaker.com/?p=270 The Parve Baker will celebrate its first anniversary on February 24th! I’ll be sharing my all-time favorite cookie recipe, thanking all my great blogging and reading friends, and revealing a befitting change or two. Your ideas are welcome! Tell me when and how you use The Parve Baker and what would make ... http://www.theparvebaker.com/?p=265 It’s not very often these days that I get to wander through a school gym turned showplace with displays of student projects. I happened to be at South Peninsula Hebrew Day School with a group of visitors on the day of the middle school science fair this past week. Most ... http://www.theparvebaker.com/?p=264 Every once in a while a dessert is so good that it disappears before you get to serve yourself. This is exactly what happened to me earlier this week. I’ll get to why I can’t take full credit, but first here’s what happened. I work with people who celebrate birthdays. Despite ... http://www.theparvebaker.com/?p=256 I’m an optimist by nature. I assume that people will do the right thing most of the time. Setbacks become opportunities to find and try out new ways of engaging. Recently, I wrote about the large amount of leftover bread that’s been circulating around the neighborhood since the Simchat Torah barbeque. It's ... http://www.theparvebaker.com/?p=245 I was on the phone earlier today with Lori Huler Glick, an extraordinary real estate professional. Lori’s been working heroically since late summer, against the plunging economy, to help me sell or rent my Upper West Side co-op so that I can get settled on the West Coast. Showing the ... http://www.theparvebaker.com/?p=235