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Chunky Dried Fruit + Mixed Nut Biscotti

By Lisa GoldbergIn RecipesPosted November 14, 2025
FRUIT NUT BISCOTTI

These are an absolute favourite and we have been making them since around 2009! A long time indeed. A super-chunky twice-baked biscuit stuffed with sultanas, apricots and dates, loaded with almonds, hazelnuts and pistachios that delivers so much crunch, chewiness and flavour. Once you start eating them, you won't stop...

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BROWN SUGAR NUTTIES

By Lisa GoldbergIn RecipesPosted March 25, 2025

A quick 4-ingredient, 10 minute gluten free KLP biscuit. It has it all!

Tags: Biscuits, GLuten Free recipes, KLP, Monday Morning Cooking Club, Passover, Pesach, Walnuts
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Mum’s Crumb Cookies

By Lisa GoldbergIn RecipesPosted April 17, 2020

A treasured family recipe for a delicious slice.

Tags: Baking, Biscuits, Monday Morning Cooking Club, Mum's Crumb Cookies, Slices
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This is how we do it.

It’s one of our favourite cakes in the book, and you’ve been asking.

Cinnamon Swirl Cake from A Year of Jewish Cooking🙌🙌

Some tips you may find useful when you make this cake (on the weekend?) 💥💥:
The swirl mixture is thick! Mix it very well with a wooden spoon until it’s as smooth as you can get it. Using a teaspoon, dollop the mixture across the batter. And then, with a fork, swirl from edge to edge and from corner to corner. With some gusto!
Bake, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and enjoy.
Yum!! 

(And did you know, this is a dairy-free cake, what a win!!!)

And please share your pics so we can repost 🙌🙌💥💥

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And in the Monday Morning Cooking Club family, we are really enjoying our new book which is only 3 months old! Also a baby!

Each of us have been stopped in the street many times over the past few weeks with ‘this book is the best of all your books!!’ 

And as much as we don’t want the other 4 books to hear those comments 🙊🙉 we are thrilled because this book is really the culmination of all our earlier books. 

It’s a mouthwatering celebration of our beautiful and special Jewish community through the lens of our recipes, our stories and our traditions. The first four books and the cooks who have shared so much with us are the pillars and shoulders we stand on.

We hope most of you already have it in your kitchen, splattered with whatever you cooked last night! 

If not, you can buy a copy on our website (link in Linktree in profile) or at any good bookstore. In Syd our fave is @gertrudeandalice and in Melb @avenuebookstore . 

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He’s here💙

Welcome to the world, little Ezra.

Mazal tov to the most wonderful new parents — Bibi ❤️ & Jake ❤️

We are so full of gratitude for this precious new Jewish life and already completely, hopelessly in love with this gorgeous little boy. 🌟

And just like that — I am Bubi to 3 amazing humans. I am beyond grateful - so much nachas 💖💙💙 and such a blessing!
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This is - unfortunately - a dilemma of our times.

Natanya and I did an interview last week, aired on Saturday, about Shavuot, Jewish festivals, food and tradition with Jonathan Green. He was an excellent interviewer and we enjoyed it very much.

It’s a really nice interview.
It was on ABC Radio National.

Should we have done the interview at all? 
Now that it’s done, maybe we shouldn’t air it? 
I’ve been procrastinating all week.

I’d love to know your thoughts!

 I’ve decided to share it here and you can decide if you want to listen…..or not.

Lisa xx

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/every-bite/a-year-of-jewish-cooking-monday-morning-cooking-club/106643162

(I keep saying watch it and I mean listen to it🙄🙈)
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It’s Shavuot.
It’s time for cheese blintzes at my place.

Recipe from ‘A Year of Jewish Cooking’

Shavuot celebrates two things — gratitude for the wheat harvest in ancient Israel which used to be marked by bringing offerings of bread to the Temple, and the moment Moses received the Torah on Mt Sinai.

Then the Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E and Jews scattered across the world. No harvest to bring. No Temple to bring it to. But the Torah remained, and so did the festival.

We like to believe that the dairy tradition grew out of that same moment when Moses came down with the new laws of kashrut, no meat had been prepared the right way, so the people had no choice but to eat a dairy meal. And because the Jewish people LOVE to mark any occasion with food, it stuck. Across centuries of diaspora life the dairy focus (especially cheesecake and blintzes in our part of the world) became as much a part of Shavuot as studying the torah. 🧀🍰

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In our new book, A Year of Jewish Cooking, we have a chapter dedicated to Shavuot with some of our all time favourite recipes. Many of the recipes in this chapter are new or updated versions of a previously shared recipe.

Baked Cheesecake
Roasted Salmon w Tahini + Herbs
Sweet Cheese Lokshen Kugel
Potato Gratin
Ricotta Cheesecake Slice
MMCC Eggplant Parmigiana
Brown Sugar Meringues with Rhubarb  and yoghurt Cream
Cheese Borekas
Cheese Blintzes 

There are 5 sweet and 4 savoury. 
Which one do you want to make first? 

Fabulous pics by the wonderful @alanbensonphotographer

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And then there’s this.
Perhaps the savoury jewel in the Shavuot crown 🙌🙌

Frojalda.
Turkish Cheese Bread.

Recipe from our fourth book, Now for Something Sweet - in the one savoury chapter!

Comment ‘more cheese’ and I’ll send you a link to the recipe - and there’s a video to go with it.
You’re welcome🧀🧀🧀!!!

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These Borekas are a joy to make.
A shortcut puff pastry with a simple cheese filling makes a triangular pastry with an exceptional crunch and a perfect savoury taste🙌🙌.
You can find the recipe in our new book, A Year of Jewish Cooking. 

If you want to see a few pages from the new book, comment ‘new book’ 🙌🙌

Shavuot 🌾✡️🧀starts on Thursday evening, a two day festival that we have always found a little confusing🤔: What are we actually celebrating, and why do we eat so much cheesecake? 

I think - at last - we have some clarity.

Shavuot actually celebrates two things — gratitude for the wheat harvest in ancient Israel which used to be marked by bringing offerings of bread to the Temple, and the moment Moses received the Torah on Mt Sinai.

Then the Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E and Jews scattered across the world. No harvest to bring. No Temple to bring it to. But the Torah remained, and so did the festival.

We like to believe that the dairy tradition grew out of that same moment when Moses came down with the new laws of kashrut, no meat had been prepared the right way, so the people had no choice but to eat a dairy meal. And because the Jewish people LOVE to mark any occasion with food, it stuck. Across centuries of diaspora life the dairy focus (especially cheesecake and blintzes in our part of the world) became as much a part of Shavuot as studying the torah. 🧀🍰

#Shavuot  #ayearofjewishcooking
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This golden, apricot-studded, crumble-topped ricotta cheesecake slice - Kolac - is truly delicious. Comment ‘cheese’ for the recipe. 

Shavuot 🌾✡️🧀starts on Thursday evening, a two day festival that we have always found a little confusing🤔: What are we actually celebrating, and why do we eat so much cheesecake? 

I think - at last - we have some clarity.

Shavuot actually celebrates two things — gratitude for the wheat harvest in ancient Israel which used to be marked by bringing offerings of bread to the Temple, and the moment Moses received the Torah on Mt Sinai.

Then the Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E and Jews scattered across the world. No harvest to bring. No Temple to bring it to. But the Torah remained, and so did the festival.

We like to believe that the dairy tradition grew out of that same moment when Moses came down with the new laws of kashrut, no meat had been prepared the right way, so the people had no choice but to eat a dairy meal. And because the Jewish people LOVE to mark any occasion with food, it stuck. Across centuries of diaspora life the dairy focus (especially cheesecake and blintzes in our part of the world) became as much a part of Shavuot as studying the torah. 🧀🍰

#Shavuot  #ayearofjewishcooking
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