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Shavuot

Shavuot, the Feast of the Weeks, is the Jewish holiday celebrating the harvest season in Israel and the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. It is customary to eat dairy food on Shavuot. Enjoy these recipes for everything from cheese blintzes to lasagna to cheesecake.
Hungarian Cheese Spread (Dairy)
We had the pleasure of eating at our friend Meira's house for Shavuot. For the first course, she served gazpacho soup as well as a variety of cheese spreads with crackers. Among the various cheeses, there was this amazing Hungarian cheese spread. My son loved it so much that she packed some up for him to take home.
Shavuot Menus and Recipes for Busy Cooks
It is customary to eat dairy food on the Jewish festival of Shavuot (Pentecost). Given that dairy dishes can be labor intensive and that Shavuot often falls in the middle of the work week, these Shavuot dinner and lunch menus consists primarily of kosher dairy recipes for busy cooks.
Traditional Shavuot Menu and Recipes
Shavuot, the Feast of the Weeks, is the Jewish holiday celebrating the harvest season in Israel and the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. Find a traditional dairy menu and recipes for the Shavuot holiday.
About Judaism: Shavuot Food
About.com Guide to Judaism explains why Jews eat dairy on Shavuot and provides Shavuot recipes including Cheese-topped Onion Soup, Baked Salmon, Cheese Blintzes, Sesame Zucchini, Israeli Salad and Cheesecake.
Aish.com: Shavuot Recipes
Aish.com offers these mouth-watering recipes for the Shavuot holiday: Bubbie Bobbie'S Cheesecake, Shifra's Fluffy Blintzes, Chef Hershel's Wife's K.I.S.S. Cheesecake, Cheesecake Squares, Chocolate Marble Cheesecake, Oreo Cheesecake.
Aish.com: More Shavuot Recipes
Aish.com offers really good dairy recipes - such as French Onion Soup, Salmon in Puff Pastry, Whole Baked Fish, Greek Tomato Salad, and Greek Orzo Salad - that you can serve to your family and friends for Shavuot holiday meals.
Jewish Food Mailing List: Shavuot
The Jewish Food Mailing List has compiled Jewish food recipes from its active subscribers. The mailing list defines Jewish food as any food that is able to be prepared according to kashruth (Biblical dietary laws).
RFCJ Newsgroup: Shavuot Recipes
RFCJ Newsgroup (rec.food.cuisine.jewish) archives recipes sent in from different Jewish ethnic streams (Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Yemenite, etc.) and communities around the world. Recipes posted to this newsgroup respect the basic framework of the Jewish dietary laws. The recipes separate dairy and meat, and they do not call for non-kosher ingredients.

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