This recipe originally appeared on The Nosher. It’s hard to improve on the classic goodness of a good American barbecue (or cookout, depending on what part of the United States you might reside).

No matter how good a bakery challah tastes, baking it myself tastes better. Golden and fragrant and topped with toasted seeds, mine will be on the table for the first night of Hanukkah on Tuesday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturday mornings were usually challah French toast mornings in my house growing up. My dad would take any leftover challah from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s no better way to celebrate Rosh Hashanah than with a warm, golden loaf of freshly baked challah. This slightly sweet, ...

Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their ...

Most of us are still recovering from Passover and its days of potatoes, matzo and endless multi-course meals. Many made resolutions to cleanse, diet and lose those pounds before Shavuot comes, and ...

Cooking for your mom on Mother’s Day is probably the Best Gift Ever for a lot of moms. Sure, we’re delighted to get flowers, or a lovely box of chocolate, or a new power drill, but what we really want ...

Challah, like most bread, is fairly straightforward — flour, yeast, water, eggs, and maybe a few other ingredients, depending on your recipe. But as we’ve seen with the recent trend for fancily ...

For Rosh Hashana, challah, the braided oval bread that Jews break and share after lighting candles each Sabbath gets reworked into a spiral to call to mind the cycle of life. In this version, Alan ...

Over the last decade, bakers have been experimenting with olive oil in all kinds of nontraditional ways, and I’ve been right there with them. I’ve added it to cakes, swirled it into lemon bars, even ...

If your French toast is not made with challah bread, is it even worth eating? Every Friday night, my family usher’s in Shabbat by lighting candles, saying a blessing over the wine/grape juice and ...