I found these fantastic recipes for Tu Bishvat - try them out and let us know how you liked them! If you can find more recipes to complete the shivas Haminim (the species with which Israel is blessed) please post them so we can try and have recipes with all of them!

Pomegranate Salad

6 lg Pomegranates
2 md Delicious apples; peeled and sliced
1/2 c Walnuts or pecans; chopped coarsely
1 c Whipping cream
1 tb Powdered sugar
1 ts Vanilla
1 tb Salad dressing (optional)


Remove seeds from pomegranates. Add apples and nuts. Add powdered sugar and vanilla to the
whipping cream. Whip cream until thick. Fold in salad dressing and then into salad.

Date and Almond Brownies
(Please note that dates need to be checked. Slice them in half, remove the pip and check for
any infestation)


2/3 c Flour
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
1 1/3 c Butter or margerine if you would like to make it Parave
2 oz Unsweetened baking chocolate
1 c Sugar
2 Eggs, beaten
1/2 c Chopped almonds
1/2 c Chopped dates
1 ts Vanilla extract


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together into bowl.
Melt butter and chocolate in top of double boiler over hot water. Remove from heat.
Combine sugar and eggs in large bowl; add chocolate mixture. Stir in flour. Add almonds,
dates and vanilla. Spread batter in greased 8" square baking pan; bake for 25 minutes.
Cool in pan, then cut into squares

Here is Aish Hatorah's collection of recipes:

http://www.aish.com/tubshvat/tubshvatcustoms/Recipes_for_Tu_BShvat_.asp

B"H

The following response was provided by Joseph Mosseri:

As Rabbi Bar-Sadoq has said there are different minhagim regardim the order of
eating of fruits for Tou bishbat.

I have been studying the texts of Peri Ess Hadar as printed in numerous
countries over the last 300 years and I have discovered this list of fruits to
be the most correct.

Group number 1 is all fruit.
The 10 items are:
Grapes or Raisins
Figs
Apples
Etrog(Citron)
Kumquat
Pear
Quince
Mulberry
Trilobed Sorbus
Carob

Group 2 outer fruit with a large center pit.
The 10 items are:
Olive
Date
Cherry (Must be sweet)
Jujube
Peach
Plum or Prune
Apricot
Sour Morello Cherry
Hawthorn Berry
Loquat

Group 3 outer peel and inner fruit
The 10 items are:
Pomegranate
Walnut
Almond
Chestnut
Hazelnut
Acorn
Coconut
Pinenuts
Pistachio
Another nut like Pecan,Brazil,Macadamia or Banana.

These are the 30 fruits.
Of course you can eat many others as well but you should strive for as many of
the above mentioned as possible. Wheat and Barley should also be eaten, usually
in the form of cakes, cookies, and Beer!
Also 4 cups of wine are drunk. White,Pink,Rose, and Red.

Happy Holiday,
Joseph Mosseri