Holy Days (articles)

Every year at our Passover seder we ask four new questions.

SWEET POTATO KUGEL
(From No Cholesterol Passover Recipes, by Debra Wasserman)
Serves 12.

Ingredients:
•    6 small sweet potatoes, peeled and grated
•    3 apples, peeled and grated
•    1 cup raisins
•    1 cup matzo meal
•    2 tsp cinnamon
•    1 cup fruit juice or water

The cycle of violence between the Jews and the Egyptians continues with no end in sight in Egypt.

ShalomVeg.com Recipes
•         10 large carrots; peeled, diced
•         2 medium potatoes cubed
•         3 yams, or sweet potatoes Peeled and diced
•         1 medium onion, diced
•         8 large pitted prunes, halved
•         2 cloves garlic, crushed
•         1/4 cup brown sugar
•         1 teaspoon salt
•         1 teaspoon cinnamon, optional
•         2 cups orange juice

Purim is not a Jewish Halloween.  Although we traditionally dress up in customs of Bible heroes, eat, and have fun, Purim is about as different from Halloween as butterflies are from bats.

Cheese Latkes
3 egg substitutes
1 cup plant milk
1 cup vegan cottage cheese
1 cup matzo meal
1 Tbsp. sugar
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
oil for frying (canola is recommended)

Potato and Apple Pancakes We topped these potato-apple latkes (pancakes) with a dollop of sour cream but they're also delicious with unsweetened applesauce.