50 Recipes 2011, #13: rugelach

[nonelvis]

It's Purim this weekend, so I'm making hamantaschen and rugelach. Both recipes come from one of my favorite cookbooks, Sundays at Moosewood, and while I've made the hamantaschen recipe a million times, I'd never made rugelach before.

Easy, easy, easy, with the hardest part being the amount of force required to roll out the cold cream cheese dough. They're filled with chocolate chips, walnuts, and cinnamon and have a light, flaky texture. Definitely a keeper.

In fact, it's been a pretty good food and drink day. I've also cooked up this outrageously good apricot filling for the hamantaschen; dinner will be steak tips, roasted potatoes with horseradish sauce, and fresh asparagus; and I'm currently drinking a face-meltingly delightful Green Monster, columbina's mix of Ransom gin, green Chartreuse, and Absolut Boston. Good thing I've done all my knifework for dinner already, or I'd be in trouble.

Comments

[fonticulus.livejournal.com]

That rugelach sounds great. But every time I see a mention of it, I think of Stan's mom on South Park offering up some gehaggefakke.

[nonelvis]

All my people's best foods have names like someone coughing up a hairball!