{"id":1270,"date":"2016-03-31T19:26:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T19:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2016-05-03T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T13:24:27","slug":"lolas-purim-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/2016\/03\/lolas-purim-party","title":{"rendered":"Lola\u2019s Purim Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lola Obembe<\/strong><\/p>\n

For this month\u2019s \u201cLola\u2019s Kitchen\u201d, I was tasked with the challenge of presenting a dish that mirrored this month\u2019s theme i.e. rebirth. Just like Easter marks the resurrection of the Christ, I was to showcase a dish which has somewhat been reincarnated.<\/p>\n

This, as you can imagine was rather hard. I wanted to do something Nigerian, but couldn\u2019t find any traditional soup or dish that has been reinvigorated or as some of my colleagues would say, \u201cdesecrated\u201d *coughs* *Owen* *coughs*.<\/p>\n

So I did some digging and discovered the feast of Purim.<\/p>\n

Purim is a Jewish holiday that happens to fall during Easter which celebrates the saving of the Jews from the plot of Hamman, if you remember the story of Queen Esther who married King Xerxes I of Persia having been picked out from a beauty pageant line up. She and her uncle Mordecai were later used by God to save the Jews in Persia from a plot by the royal advisor Hamman to kill them all.<\/p>\n

The Jews eat Hamantaschen cookies, traditionally filled with poppy seeds, nuts and dried fruits to commemorate this day in history. Today\u2019s recipe will include lindt dark chocolates amongst other deliciousness.<\/p>\n

Quick Lola trivia, one of my 36 names happens to be Esther so I couldn\u2019t not recreate this dish. I must also say that though these are just cookies, this was the most difficult and serendipitously successful dishes I\u2019ve ever made.<\/p>\n

So here it goes:<\/p>\n

INGREDIENTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the Dough<\/h4>\n