Shtetl Fabulous

Well, my first time making matzah went pretty well. After 2 kg of flour and nearly five hours, I had the equivalent of maybe two or three bo...

I have been in a frenzy, as I realized just how disconnected from the timecycles of Judaism I've gotten. I looked up and saw: ten days u...

Sorry to be so long, but Tokyo Orientation is every bit as busy, exciting, frazzling, and jet-lagged as I'd been led to believe. This po...

The news is in - I have been accepted for the short list of ALT candidates for the JET Program. This means that, short of a few more bits of...

So we've taken our "before" pictures (which, eek. I always managed to be better placed to not look quite so heavy before), and...

So we are on the last day of a four-day cleanse I found via a beautiful food site -  My New Roots . While I haven't yet been able to mak...

I've been meaning to make some spicy fruit jam to serve as an appetizer on cheeses. In a fit of inspiration, I got some mystery peppers ...