Challah Boy and Challah Girl were delighted when our Willow and Wild Box arrived this week. We were expecting “nature inspired fun and learning” in our Box and we were not disappointed. We had such an enjoyable morning planting the seeds (wheat grass and pansies), decorating our own lantern with autumn leaves and making leaf … More Challah Mummy Grows: Willow and Wild Box
This week we are celebrating my daughter, Neroli’s, 3rd birthday so I made Orange Blossom Challah because her name means “essence of orange blossom”. I infused the dough with orange blossom water before the first rise and the smell is absolute divine! The challah is decorated with fresh freesias and served on a giant serving … More Adventure 78: Orange Blossom Challah
Sukkot is a happy time in the #challahmummykitchen as we start preparing for Autumn. My husband and kids build and decorate our sukkah and we get to make brightly colored Lulav and Etrog Challah! Wishing everyone a chag sameach!
After all the round challah we have enjoyed over Rosh Hashanah we thought we would make square challah this week for Shabbat. The outer square was egg washed with egg yolk and the inner square with egg white and sprinkled with the most delicious soft, sweet crumble topping made by a close family friend. Absolutely … More Adventure 76: Sweet Crumble Square Challah
Thank you to everyone who placed an order for a special Apple and Honey challah for Rosh Hashanah. Here’s my Challah Mummy How To to show you how the extra large ones were made! Shana Tova!
We made this Challah for our friend Karen O’Donohoe who presents Grow Cook Eat on RTE in Ireland. We are so inspired by her work to promote growing your own fruit and vegetables and cooking with them. We made homemade plum compote using local plums and used it to fill the Challah. We added tiny … More Adventure 74: Plum Compote and White Chocolate Challah
It’s blackberry season here in glorious East Cork so we went wild blackberry picking. Here’s our first wild blackberry challah stuffed and decorated with beautiful wild blackberries.
