There are a lot of things I'd rather be writing about today, but I can't avoid the subject any longer. I'm talking about Rosh Hashanah, less than three weeks away beginning Wednesday evening, September 9. Not only is the two-day holiday followed immediately by Shabbat, making it a "three-day Yom Tov" even for those of us in Israel—it's early and if the last few weeks are anything to go by, it's likely to be exceedingly hot as well. Of course it rained last year, so one can hope. Having reached the limits of my refrigerator's capacity for withstanding the heat just with regular Shabbat cooking at the height of the  summer, I am wary. I can't possibly see cooking food for Shabbat on … [Read more...]