Our mushroom tapenade appetizer is quick and easy to make. No one needs to know you didn’t spend hours on it.
Every year when my family would get together for “Break the Fast” following Yom Kippur, a family friend, Charles, would always bring a pistachio cake. This cake became part of the tradition. Much like a Thanksgiving meal in that you know the menu before you get there, for breaking the fast my family always has the same foods: bagels, lox, cream cheese, assorted fish, blintzes and lots of pastries, including Charles’ pistachio cake. Ethan and I now bring our own vegan cream cheese and Ethan makes his famous Chickpea Tu-No Salad, which everyone loves. A few years ago, Charles moved to Florida and was no longer around for Yom Kippur. I stepped up and took over making the blintzes, both cheese and potato, and 100% vegan. The first time I made them everyone was shocked that they contained no egg or dairy. My father now asks me to make them every year and when