Purim is coming! If you haven’t yet perfected your hamantaschen filling technique and are still contemplating dressing as Tickle Me Elmo on Purim night – not to worry. The Jew & The Carrot presents our favorite Purim recipes and resources from around the Jewish blogosphere.

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Purim Recipes and Resources from the Jewish Blogosphere

In Mol Araan, a Jewish food blog in Yiddish and English suggests a hemp-based filling for hamantaschen, sweetened with agave, coconut milk, and cardamom.

The Parve Baker eschews making hamantaschen for Purim. Like ripe tomatoes in August and the mango tree outside her former graduate school home in Indonesia, there are simply too many to go around! Instead, she gives us a recipe for Queen Esther’s Crown – a “slightly sweet challah dough stuffed with a mixture of chopped onions, poppy seeds, salt, and oil.”

BFruitfull suggests a list of half bottles of kosher wine, that could be tucked into mishloach manot baskets.

My Jewish Learning offers a recipe for a cinnamon-spiced vegetarian bean stew for a festive Purim meal.