Did you see this new Passover cookbook? Filled with recipes from around the world and full-color travel photography, The No-Potato Passover is a best-seller and received the 2012 Gourmand Award for the Best Jewish Cuisine in the USA.

Experience Aviva Kanoff’s newly revised and edited The No-Potato Passover (Think outside the Spud).
Aviva Kanoff has gathered delicious, worldwide recipes to revolutionize Passover menus everywhere. Spanning the globe, Aviva’s colorful journey takes us through the plates and palates of a rich gastronomic experience, creating a potato-free Pesach. From Italy to Israel, England to France, Italy to Austria, Croatia to Hungary, and as far and far-out as Jamaica and Morocco, Aviva brings the culinary world to your kitchen workstation.

Leave behind plain potatoes this Passover and opt for healthy and creative options, such as quinoa and spaghetti squash. Make that starchy Passover substitute, the plain potato, an ingredient of Passovers past!

Aviva shared two sneak peak recipes for us to try, Cabbage Soup with Matzoh Meatballs and Poached Peach and Chicken Salad.

GKC has one to giveaway! Comment to win. Have a question for the author, you can submit that too.

Look what Breezy’s has for GKC! A French Bull cake plate and super fun and colorful pairing knife.  French Bull makes modern items with fantastic patterns.  Check out the platters, serving pieces, storage pieces, and new knives at Breezy’s!

Breezy’s has a huge stock of everything you need for Passover, from gorgeous gifts, serving pieces, pitchers, crumbers, small bowls for dips and the platters that match and so much more. See photos on facebook or give them a call to order a piece at 516 374 1544.

One GKC winner will serve their delicious desserts on this adorable cake plate and slice and cut in style! Comment to win. Contest ends at midnight on March 24.

Remember Matzel Toff from last year’s post? We ate it all year round and now have it to buy now or to give to one lucky GKC winner. Matzel Toff! is a scrumptious Toffee-Chocolate-Matzah treat that brings a new and unexpected gourmet twist to matzah. So delicious, you won’t believe it’s pareve and kosher for Passover. This makes the perfect gift, seder dessert or Passover midnight snack! All natural, with no artificial flavors or preservatives. Hurry its almost sold out and you haven’t even tried it yet. Certified Kof-K.

GKC loves companies with a story. Matzel Toff has its own. Phillip, founder of Matzel Toff, grew up enjoying his Bubbie Edith’s toffee-chocolate-matzah. Inspired by her recipe, he eventually honed his own recipe as a graduate student in New York City, where it became his beloved staple for potlucks and dinner parties. One bite into this scrumptious treat and his friend Abby was immediately hooked. She realized that matzah needed a gourmet makeover, and that toffee-chocolate was the perfect fit. Phillip and Abby teamed up to make Matzel Toff! available to everyone.

In 2011 Matzel Toff! will introduce new gourmet products for other Jewish holidays and for year-round enjoyment – GKC can’t wait to tell you all about them, so stay tuned for details.

Comment to win a family box of Kosher for Passover, Pareve Dark Chocolate, Matzel Toff. Or get some, either a gift box of 2 for $9.25 or a family box of 8 for $29.00 at www.matzeltoff.com

This dish from our friends at The Quest Collection makes any type of charoses look delicious. Everyone likes extra charoses and setting it on the table in an exquisite serving dish is perfect for the Passover table. The Quest Collection creates magnificent pieces for the table, for gifts, and sometimes just as showpieces. Their hand painted work is adorned with enamel, color, and incredibly detailed design work and then decorated with Swarovski crystals giving it that extra glam we all love. For Passover, the collection includes Seder plates, frog napkin rings, coasters, and of course candle sticks and many decorative platters. Submit to win this gorgeous dish (worth $70) and receive it in time for Passover.

GKC loves every piece in their collection. Enhance your home with a piece from their collection or send it to a friend as a gift, we do, all the time!

Find the Quest Collection at www.inspirationgallery.com or at www.galleryjudaica.com

For another fabulous giveaway, visit our friends at Kosher Eye. Wow, 8 place settings of Lenox China!

Elegant, traditional, unique, exquisite, and all original, Ayin Tov designs create the most beautiful challah covers we have seen. I first discovered them in a boutique Judaica shop in NYC and lately have noticed them at the most upscale catered events. GKC spoke to Paula Menche, creator and designer of all Ayin Tov designs and asked how she started and what inspires her. “I was setting my table for a Shabbat dinner and noticed that one of my generic challah covers was sitting next to a swatch of the beautiful blue Fortuny fabric with which I have decorated my bedroom. I thought to myself, ” the cover that I use every Friday night should be made out of something as exquisite as that.” and the rest as they say is history.” She has always loved textiles and was knowledgeable about them because her father was a textile import/exporter and she worked with him for many years. Even as a child, she was inspired by design, “The outlet for my childhood imagination was never playing with my Barbie dolls but rather making clothing and draperies for their “Dream House.”

Today she loves creating items that are used in such a meaningful way. Her favorite scenario is when someone takes the time to select one of her pieces for a bride and groom whether it is as a shower, engagement or wedding present. Her creations are used as wedding gifts, house gifts, Bat Mitzvah and Engagement presents and some of her newer pieces like hand towels and toddler challah covers are enjoyed by little ones too.

Her work can be purchased at design stores like the Jewish Museum in NYC, Michael Strauss Silver Shop in NYC, and the Museum Shop at the New American Jewish History Museum in Philadelphia.

View the entire collection, from elegant white to funky stripes and patterns, at www.ayintovdesigns.com.
Click on the link to her Kodak gallery and use the password ayintov.

One lucky GKC winner will receive this Challah/Matza cover that sells for $250. Submit a comment to enter.