Key in to your Challah

Styling by Esther Ottensoser
Photography by Hudi Greenberger

It’s not uncommon for me to be off season with my article planning. None of my children would bat an eyelash if they saw a dreidel around here before Succos or mishloach manos on our table on Chanukah.

It so happens that this year I decided to put my Bosch away before Purim. Lo and behold, as soon as it was away, Chanie asked me to do a quick shlissel challah idea.

So on the Friday of Shushan Purim, my son-in-law walked into my kitchen and saw shlissel challah on the counter. His face bore a look of utter confusion and bewilderment as he said to me meekly, “I think the minhag is to do shlissel challah the week after Pesach, not the week after Purim!”