Apples & Honey (& Honey)

Here's the promised Rosh Hashanah post.

First, let's cut right to the cute with some video:



(My favorite part? When she stops in the middle and announces "I have to breathe" - so cute!)

I also attended the Rosh Hashanah party at Natalie's school last Friday. It was awesome. And sticky. And sticky. On a related note, if you ask Natalie about the party, she'll tell you "I drank the honey. And I ate honey cake." I guess the apples and pomegranates had a hard time keeping up with other fare!

Here are some pics from the party:

 

Since the temps have cooled a little, we've also been doing a little baking in honor of the holiday. Here are some baked pumpkin donuts from the Goat Chef:

We had company over on Saturday night and I made a new apple cake recipe, Cook's Illustrated French Apple Cake. 

 A new recipe is always a bit of a high stakes gamble; this was fine, but I think I still prefer either the Cooking Light apple cake or the apple cake recipe from the New York Times Jewish Cookbook. You know, in case you were keeping score.


Last night I made Apple and Honey Challah. I did take a picture, but, uh, let's just pretend mine looked just like the pictures on the blog. The bread did taste good - and it made some excellent French Toast for our breakfast-for-dinner that we had tonight.   

Wishing you a sweet and good year!