Pesach 2011 Menu Plans

Posted: Mon, Apr 11 2011, 4:58 pm Post subject: Pesach 2011 Menu Plans

Can't believe no one has started a thread on this topic yet, but being as I made my menu today, I wanted to share. I cook one hot meal a day- leftovers are for the next day's lunch.

Shabbos Hagadol- Already Pesachdik- Friday Night- Tomato dip, coleslaw, garlic spread, moroccan fish, orange soup with pine nuts, mashed potatoes with gravy and cracklings, shnitzel
Shabbos Day- Tomato dip, coleslaw, garlic spread, moroccan fish, tomato sauce chicken bottoms, potato knishes stuffed with greens

Sunday- Leil Bedikas chometz- colcannon

Monday- Erev Pesach/Seder- charoset, eggs in salt water, matza ball soup, "duck sauce" chicken, oasted potatoes, grilled veggies/antipasto

Tuesday- First day Yom Tov- Mashed potatoes, gravy and pupiks, wild mustard with onions and olive oil, grilled veggies/antipasto, sweet and spicy chicken bottoms

Wednesday- First day chol hamoed in E'Y- going on a trip- twice baked potatoes, mixed vegetable quiche

Thursday- Second day chol hamoed in E'Y, first day chol hamoed in chu'l. BBQ. Chicken wings, coleslaw, potato salad, homemade pickles, homemade sauerkraut, french fries, grilled eggplant, homemade mock mustard, homemade ketchup

Friday- Gezpacho, eggplant salad 2 ways (babaganoush and mock chopped liver), spicy carrot salad, raw beet salad with orange and rosemary, fennel salad, pepper steak, quinoa

Shabbos- Same as Friday night.

Sunday- Erev Yom Tov- Wonton soup, beef eggrolls, quinoa sushi, dips (mock soy sauce, and "duck sauce")

Monday- Last day Yom Tov in E'Y- Hot and sour egg drop soup with veggies, stuffed cabbage, any leftover salads

Tuesday- Isru Chag- potato blintzes and sweet cheesy blintzes

Deserts- sponge cake, strawberry redbud sorbet, nut cookies, brownies

Breakfasts- matza with homemade cream cheese, matza brie, coconut porridge, chocolate pudding, bananas with yogurt, yogurt with homemade granola, eggnog, milk shakes, sweet crepes with chocolate syrup

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I'm doing a lot the same as last year. We're making Yapchick instead of cholent, though.

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Seraph, your menu had my mouth watering...!
I'm not cooking for Pesach...

Posted: Tue, Apr 12 2011, 3:10 pm Post subject: re: Pesach 2011 Menu Plans

First Days Menu

Erev Pesach
slow cooker meatloaf and sweet potatoes

Monday Night
grape juice
Matzah
Seder Plate: broiled drumstick, browned egg, Marror, Charoses, parsnip, romaine
avocado spread
cucumber salad
gefilte fish
eggs and salt water
chicken soup and egg noodles
poached chicken and pesto sauce
quinoa salad
apple sauce compote

Tuesday Afternoon
Matzah
fried ggplant
gefilte fish
cole slaw
vegetable soup
roast beef
creamy mashed potatoes
pineapple chunks with strawberry sauce

Tuesday Night
out

Wednesday Afternoon
Matza
spinach pesto
gefilte fish
lemony dill carrot salad
zucchini soup
pickled tongue
sweet potato salad
cantaloupe
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Posted: Tue, Apr 12 2011, 3:13 pm Post subject: re: Pesach 2011 Menu Plans

I'm only making a few meals -

2nd day lunch - milchigs!
feta-crusted salmon
2 crustless quiches - one mushroom & onion, the other peppers
salad
smore brownies

Friday night - special guests
matzo ball soup
brisket
salad
ratatouille
apple kugel
sponge cake

Shabbos lunch -
gefilte fish
chicken cholent
apple kugel
oniony sweet potatoes
salad
sponge cake

7th night -
matzo ball soup
onion-smothered chicken
ratatouille
dessert

8th night -
gefilte fish
shnitzel
salad
dessert

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suzyq, how do I make onion sweet potatoes?

Posted: Tue, Apr 12 2011, 3:31 pm Post subject: re: Pesach 2011 Menu Plans

It's actually super simple but delish. Take 3-4 large sweet potatoes and cut them up into small pieces (no need to peel them), about 1-inch cubes. Then cut up an onion or 2. Throw then together in a 9x13 pan. Sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of onion soup mix on top, then drizzle with olive oil. Mix it all up, then bake at 350 for about 45 minutes (until they are soft). That's it!

Executive Member Joined: Sep 11 2008 Posts: 334

I have my first days menu in front of me so here it is:

Monday night first seder
egg salad
chicken soup with matza balls, salted black radish on the side (why do we only have this a Pesach?)
oven saucy chicken
sweet potato coins (slices)
potato kugel (cheating this year, purchased from Costco)
spaghetti squash with sauteed onions and pepper on top
cole slaw
dessert and tea (my mother is doing the cakes, so not sure yet what they will be)

Tues lunch
salmon
flounder for those who don't like salmon
matza pizza
apple kugel (from costco)
spinach kugel
matzoh and cream cheese, margarine and jelly

Tuesday night second seder
egg salad
chicken soup as above
either meatballs or brisket, depending on what's available when I shop this week
farfel stovetop stuffing
broccoli kugel (from costco)
honeyed carrots
cole slaw
dessert and tea

Wednesday lunch
tuna salad crustless pie
matzoh lasagne with cheese
matzoh lasagne with no cheese and sauteed veggies
garden salad
twice baked potatoes, some with cheese and some with onions and some plain
matzoh and cream cheese, margarine and jelly

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suzyq- can you give me the recipes for:
feta-crusted salmon
quich-one mushroom & onion
apple kugel

tia!

Posted: Wed, Apr 13 2011, 9:32 am Post subject: Re: re: Pesach 2011 Menu Plans

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Here's mine (still slightly tentative):
Note that we eat gebrokts and that we eat roasted meat seder night if it was roasted with ample liquid in the pan.

Monday Night, First Seder
Chicken Soup with Knaidlach
Turkey in Gravy
Glazed Corned Beef
Potato Kugel
Sweet Potato Pie
Broiled Vegetables

Tuesday, 1st day YT Lunch
Israeli Salad
Sweet & Sour Meatballs
Pureed Vegetable Soup
Chuck Roast
Turkey with Gravy
Scalloped Potatoes
Broccoli Kugel
Apple Crisp
Chocolate Mousse Cake
Fresh Fruit

Tuesday Night, Second Seder
Chicken Soup with Knaidlach
Cranberry Chicken
Chuck Roast
Potato Knish
Started Kugels
Cabbage & Onions

Wednesday, 2nd day YT Lunch
Glazed Salmon & Gefilte Fish
Broccoli Salad
Pureed Vegetable Soup
Cranberry-Onion Brisket
Apricot Chicken
Potato Kugel
Mushroom Onion Quiche
Started Kugels
Vegetables from other meals
Rocky Chocky Ice Cream
Fresh Fruit
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Last edited by Raisin on Wed, Apr 13 2011, 1:04 pm; edited 1 time in total

seder 1

boiled gefilta fish
chatzilim
cucumber salad
cole slaw
brisket
turkey roast
potato kugel
carrot and courgette stir fry
sweet potato tortilla

brownies and watermelon

other meals
2 tone potato roll
butternut squash soup
chicken soup
chicken
lamb roast

I forgot salads:

avocado and mango
cucumber,
beetroot
israeli salad
egg and avocado salad

maybe some salmon.

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Posted: Wed, Apr 13 2011, 12:56 pm Post subject:

Our menu mostly consists of gefilte fish, chicken soup (russel borsht once or twice; maybe creamed vegetable soup one day) roast with gravy or schnitzel, mashed potatoes or chremselach or potato kugel, apple crisp sometimes and compote or pears in wine sauce for dessert.

Yapchik and veal roast on Shabbos
Salads: cucumber, beet, carrot and potato

Posted: Wed, Apr 13 2011, 1:00 pm Post subject: re: Pesach 2011 Menu Plans

stir fry is no recipe. Just onions, carrots, and courgette cut into sticks or circles stir fried together. add salt and whatever seasonings you like.

2 tone potatoe roll - cook about 10 sweet potatoes and 12 potatoes sperately. fry some onions. mash sweet pots. with some salt. mash potatoes with salt and fried onions. make a layer of white potato on a peice of silver foil, about 1cm thick. then put layer of sweet p. on top. roll up like a jelly roll. freeze for 6 hours. (I'm freezing for several days) then take out, slice, and bake on a tray for 15 minutes.

sweet potato tortilla (my kids school asked parents for pesach recipes and sent home a whole cookbook. this is one of them. I haven't tried it yet but it looks good)

1 tbsp olive oil
1 large sweet potato diced (cooked or raw? I will ask person who sent in recipe)
I red pepper diced
1 garlic clove crushed
4 mushrooms sliced
6 eggs
parsley (will skip this, we only use peelable veggies)

heat oil, cook potatoe and onion in frying pan till onion is soft. add pepper, garlic and mushroom and cook 5 minutes more. whisk eggs and season with parsley, salt and pepper. pour into pan, lower heat, and cook until eggs are almost set. finish off under grill. (or you can try flipping) if putting under grill cover handle with foil.

a non stick skillet is probably best for this.

Posted: Thu, Apr 14 2011, 8:53 am Post subject:

I think my Seder menu is set. It will be us and the kids, and I think we are so far having 7 guys.

Matza, Wine, Seder Plate, etc.

Beef and Onion Soup
Salad with Mandarin Oranges, Purple onions, and Almonds

Brisket with Carrots and Potatoes
Sweet and Sour Corned Beef
'Breaded' French Chicken
Potato Kugel
Apple Cranberry Kugel
Carrot Muffins

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Hot Brownies topped with Vanilla Ice Cream

Posted: Thu, Apr 14 2011, 4:23 pm Post subject: re: Pesach 2011 Menu Plans

Shabbat hagadol--still using up a bit of chametz that's already cooked/frozen/just need reheating. Main is all pesachdik, thank goodness I just finished ovens.
Fri night: chicken soup with noodles, chicken, rice with orzo, green salad, fruits.
Sat lunch: hummous, baba ganoush, moroccan salad, mushroom phyllo turnover, meatballs, chicken, yerushalmi kugel, rice with orzo, green salad, fennel salad, sticky toffee pud, sorbet, fruit salad.

Sun: cereal/challah toast for b'fast, sandwich or veggie cottage pie for lunch, we'll probably go out for pizza in the evening

Mon: cereal for b'fast. jacket potato or rice for lunch.

Sedarim: doing the same both 1st and 2nd. Chicken soup (leek broth for veggies), brisket, chicken, meatballs, leek patties, something with potato (sweet potato or spicy white potato), sweet and sour carrots and celery, green salad, store-bought cake, fruits

1st day lunch: smoked salmon, guacamole, cream cheese, roasted red pepper dip, either fried fish(cod) or baked salmon, potato salad, israeli salad, fresh fava beans with mint, ice cream, fruits

invited out 2nd day lunch.

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the yapchick recipe is here, do a search.

For the first days:

Rashi wine, matza of course

baked gef fish
cuke salad
orange beet salad
greens with mango and nuts

pineapple chicken
sweet and sour meatballs
ratatoulle
tsimmes

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Erev Pesach Lunch: Scalloped Potatoes, Salad, Eggs, Brownies
Seder: Chicken soup and kneidlach, sheppard's pie, salad, brownies
Lunch 1st day yom tov: Salmon, Eggplant Parmesan, Salad, Matzah Napolean
Chol Hamoed Ideas: Spinach Matzah Quiche (Mix farfel, spinach, cottage cheese, eggs and feta, pour into baking dish and bake until golden), tomato onion quiche with Matzah meal crust, sweet potato gnocchi (made with ricotta and matza meal), shakshuka, roast chicken with poatoes and carrots around, veal chops.