Festival Celebrations

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  Tu Beshvat – New Year for trees. Seven Species cookies

Soak a tablespoon of barley overnight (if you are using non-wheat flour also soak a tablespoon of wheat kernels). Take your favourite chocolate chip cookie recipe, mine is on the recipe page. Replace the chocolate chips with the same amount of a mix of chopped sultanas, figs, dates, and pomegranate seeds. Use olive oil and optionally replace the sugar with silane (date syrup), rather than using chopped dates.

Tree planting

This year I am planting a rose-bush (above right), in recent years it was a pomegranate (below left, leafless in February) and a passionfruit (below right, after a trimming).

From the tenach “Eretz chita, veseora, vgefen uteana, verimon, eretz zait, shemen, udvash”.

• Purim – coming soon!

See Hamentaschen recipe on my homepage