https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/chocolate-lovers-honey-cake-14606

Anyone from the other thread have a chocolate honey cake recipe?

Thanks all!

Here’s what we ended up planning:

Pickled Beet salad
Brisket
Roast potatoes
Tsimmes (with dates instead of prunes)
Challah
Äpfel Kuchen (family recipe, basically an apple layer cake)
Pomegranate jello

Apricot chicken, challah, apples and honey, roast potatoes, tsimmes, something green.

Anonymous wrote:We are having vegetarian matzo ball soup, noodle kugel with apples and raisins, tzimmes (carrot and prune), and red cabbage. We'll also buy a round challah but probably eat it for breakfasts.

For your needs, OP, I'd do crockpot brisket cooked with carrots and potatoes, a green vegetable or salad, and a pareve dessert--maybe apple crumble or a honey cake (storebought is fine) with nondairy ice cream. If you love soup add that too--maybe chicken noodle if it's too hard to make matzo balls without eggs?

I like it!

We are having vegetarian matzo ball soup, noodle kugel with apples and raisins, tzimmes (carrot and prune), and red cabbage. We'll also buy a round challah but probably eat it for breakfasts.

For your needs, OP, I'd do crockpot brisket cooked with carrots and potatoes, a green vegetable or salad, and a pareve dessert--maybe apple crumble or a honey cake (storebought is fine) with nondairy ice cream. If you love soup add that too--maybe chicken noodle if it's too hard to make matzo balls without eggs?

We do a chocolate bourbon bundt cake that my grandma used to make. We also do a noodle kugel.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apples and honey were all my kids cared about.

This made me laugh. We are going apple-picking this week and may find that our kids (who both LOVE apples) feel the same. 🤣

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a grocery store with a good kosher section around alexandria/falls church/arlington?

The biggest kosher section I know of is at the Safeway on Pickett in Fairfax. They have a kosher dairy case and several kosher freezer cases on top of a large aisle of dry goods.

We do do a RH seder with all the simanim. Then we have a big veggie stew made with simanim which I will serve with round challah. Will also have whole roasted fish with roasted potatoes, some cold cooked veggie salads.

Anonymous wrote:Apples and honey were all my kids cared about.

This made me laugh. We are going apple-picking this week and may find that our kids (who both LOVE apples) feel the same. 🤣

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a grocery store with a good kosher section around alexandria/falls church/arlington?

Apples and honey were all my kids cared about.

Thank guys! Yes, just our family of 4.

Our standard menu is similar to the PP's - brisket or roast, noodle kugel (uses a ton of dairy and eggs though), challah, apples and honey, matzoh ball soup if anyone feels like making it, and some kind of salad or vegetable. Occasionally add some kind of roasted potatoes or carrots (I am not a tsimmes fan but MIL makes various other sweet carrot things).

You could skip the kugel if dairy/eggs are an issue. My kids usually fill up on the challah and apples and honey. One loves kugel and the other doesn't. The nice thing about it, if you do it, is it freezes perfectly so it's great to pull out the leftovers for break fast on Yom Kippur.

Is it just your household? Keep it simple. Matzah ball soup. Chicken or brisket. Kugel (might be hard without eggs?). Tzimmes. Challah. Apples dipped in honey. And honey or apple cake.

Make the traditions in cooking and baking together. Maybe invite another family to join you.

Those who celebrate, what are you serving? The kids are old enough that we want to do a special dinner but young enough that it’s not worth the headache of traveling to extended family to piggyback off of their traditions. This is the year we make our own family tradition and trying to figure out what to do. Egg allergies for one kid and dairy sensitivity for the other are another wrinkle.