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Challah Fail

April 9, 2009 in Thoughts by Moye | No comments

In case you guys were interested to know, my Challah bread turned into a regular loaf of slightly dense but super sweet bread.

Around dinner, I realized that it wasn’t going to rise anymore, and it was still too gooey and sticky for me to even attempt to braid it. So I just “poured” it into a bread pan  and stuck it into the oven (while B got mad at me for covering his nice wooden cutting board with sticky dough).

Suprisingly, it rose and baked into yummy bread, which we ate with coconut jam (straight from Singapore) for dessert.

I just ate this slice for breakfast and now I feel like throwing up.

I should have known this wasn’t going to work out. The first and last time I made knishes was awful. I’m never going to be remotely Jewish. Lesson learned.

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Happy Passover

April 8, 2009 in Thoughts by Moye | No comments

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I realized (thanks to Facebook) that Passover begins tonight. I think. I’m not Jewish and I don’t really know anything about being Jewish (except from what I hear from my brother-in-law and from that super cute Passover episode from Rugrats), but I thought I would give life an ironic kick in the butt by trying to make Challah Bread from scratch.

This shit is harder than it looks. I was hoping I could just knead some dough and then braid it, but I have to WAIT 6 hours for it to rise? In the fridge? WTF. That doesn’t sound very fun or right.

(Okay, I’ve been reading other recipes and none of them call for the dough to rise in the cold fridge for 6 hours, so I’m just letting it sit out in room temperature.)

Plus, I feel like the universe is kicking me back in its own ironic way, because my dough is definitely NOT rising. You know, like “Ha, you think YOU’RE being hilarious? Check this out. I did this to Moses when he tried to make bread ages ago, and look what happened to him.”

I guess I could just roll it out and bake it into matza.

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