Yom Kippur - The holiest day of the year

It's funny, I just started a blog about Israeli food and started with the Jewish new year which is the perfect day to start. If you start a blog or anything new, why not in the first day of the year, right?
So, Rosh Hasha (Jewish new year) been and gone and now Yom Kippur rolls around and its a day of fasting.... 25 hours (!) of no food or drinks (no, not even water, and no cheating while brushing your teeth too ;)... initially I thought, nice, that's exactly what I needed for a food blog...
But, after thinking about it and talking to a good friend I realized this day is much more than just a no food kind of day. This day is about stopping from doing the things we do on a daily basis and cleansing our body. Its a great day to think things over and make it clear for ourselves in who we are and what we are here for. A great day to say: I'm sorry, to friends, family and anyone you might have done wrong too (or think you have).
Yom Kippur in Israel, is a day where everything stops. No TV, no radio, no traffic (no private cars or public transport), no restaurants are open, no schools, no one rings anyone, no one txts anyone, not even a tweet. Now, don't panic and take a big breath and think how great will it be...
Back to basics. Cleansing from the inside out and from the outside in and everyone around you doing the same. Cool, eh?

And as this is a blog about great Israeli food... what a better way to start cleansing than with a Chicken soup - which we traditionally have to stock up with fluid (followed by an enormous meal - which is so typically Israeli / Jewish) just before the fasting day begins.

Here is a great recipes for Chicken Soup dumplings (I trust you'll know how to make a Chicken Soup....)

Chicken Soup dumplings filled with Liver and Chicken

Ingredients:

250g Plain Flour

1 ts Salt

2 Eggs

1/4 cup of water

Filling:

200g Minced meat

200g Chicken liver

50g Goose breast

1 tbs Oil

2 Onions (Chopped)

4 tbs of chopped Parsley

Salt

Pepper

1 Whisked Egg for glazing

How to:

1. Make the dough; mix the salt and the flour together, add the eggs and make a crumble. Add the water and mix to soft dough. wrap in cling film and put in the fridge.

2. Make the filling; heat up some oil in the pan, add the onions until caramelized, add the meat and brown it together. Add the Parsley, salt and paper to taste.

3. Roll the dough, as thin as you can (use a pasta machine if you have one)

4. Brush the rolled dough with the whisked egg and cut the dough to big squares at about 7cm x 7cm. In the middle of each square put a spoon of the meat mix and close to a triangle shape. Stick two of the triangle corners together (making a dough ring shape from it - like tortellini)

5. Boil water with salt in a pot and drop the dumplings in until they float. Scoop them out and serve with a Chicken soup. (or you can serve them as they are with fried onions)

Source: http://food.walla.co.il/?w=//1733728