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Shemini Atzeret Menu

Avatar photoRonnie Fein • Sep 23, 2013 (Updated: Jul 16, 2019)
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Traditional Challah

In our family, whenever there is something that needs doing and it hasn’t yet been done, my husband Ed says “what are you waiting for, Shemini Atzeret?” It was meaningless to our children when they were young but they understood what he meant. There is a finality to things, an ending, when what we need to accomplish, we must accomplish.

On Shemini Atzeret the year has ended, the annual cycle of Torah readings has come to its end. I like to think of this joyful “ending” as akin to school commencement, which of course means “a beginning.”

It’s time to begin again, fresh.

There are no particular food traditions for Shemini Atzeret. But because it comes on the heels of Sukkot, in the autumn, we always have a festive, celebratory meal that feels right for the new season. I always bake a homemade challah of course, using my grandma’s award-winning recipe, and my Mom’s chicken soup and apple pie recipes. Then I add a few more modern additions of my own. Here’s the menu:

Traditional Challah
Lily Vail’s Old Fashioned Chicken Soup
Roasted Moroccan Spiced Chicken Breasts

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About Ronnie Fein

Ronnie Fein gave up a fast-track, high-pay job as an associate at a major Wall
Street law firm to become a freelance food and lifestyle writer. She never looked
back, no regrets. Over the years she has written for the food sections of daily
newspapers including Newsday, The Connecticut Post, Stamford Advocate and
Greenwich Time, and for numerous publications including the New Jewish Voice,
Connecticut Bride, Connecticut Magazine, Jewish Woman Magazine, Westport
and Greenwich Magazines, Consumer’s Digest, New Canaan Advertiser and
others. She writes for on-line sites including The Jewish Week and JoyofKosher.
She has her own food blog, called Kitchen Vignettes, at www.ronniefein.com and
has been a guest blogger at Kveller.com, Koshereye.com,
ThisAmericanBite.com, KosherLikeMe.com, BeyondBubbe.com and
Culinate.com.
Ronnie is the author of four cookbooks: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cooking
Basics, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to American Cooking, Hip Kosher, and The
Modern Kosher Kitchen
. She was also a contributing editor to The New Cook’s
Catalogue, the 25th anniversary edition of the James Beard original.
Ronnie gives cooking demonstrations for large groups and operates the Ronnie
Fein School of Creative Cooking in Stamford, Connecticut, where she lives with
her husband. She has two married daughters and five grandchildren.

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  1. Ronnie Fein

    Feb 28, 2014 at 5:33 pm

    Thanks — I usually cook different recipes all the time, but these are ones I repeat over and over again. Enjoy!

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  2. Diane

    Feb 28, 2014 at 6:23 am

    Wowie! Perfect!

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  3. Hindy Garfinkel

    Sep 25, 2013 at 6:29 pm

    Everything looks perfect here, but I’d really like to try that chutney. Sounds amazing!

    Reply

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