Rosh Hashana Menus 5770!!! Let's get rolling!

AlwaysGrateful ↓

Sun, Sep 06 2009, 11:52 am

MamaBear - Your food always sounds so good. Can you post the vegetable muffins recipe? And what on earth are sesame bottoms?

(I like normal, traditional foods, so things like the makiing up your own pomegranite salad terrify me!)

↑ Seraph ↓

Sun, Sep 06 2009, 12:01 pm

IF (and thats a very big if) I make rosh hashana here, the meal will probably be something like this:

At night:
Honey challah- homemade

Simanim-
Fish head, some other type of cooked fish. Probably gonna get a whole carp and do something with that.
Apples and honey.
Beet salad.
Pomegranite.
Sauted gourd.
Terriyaki Rubia (like green beans- they're black eyed peas in a pod)
Leek somehow. Gotta figure it out.
Carrot and sweet potato tzimmess.

Perhaps perhaps perhaps chicken soup, though more likely than not, not.
Brown sugar and ketchup chicken thighs.

During the day-
Honey challah
Purple cabbage, mandarin orange, passion fruit and pomegranite salad.
Fish
some starch and some form of protein. Either meat or chicken. I'm leaning towards meat, for some reason...

I think I'll avoid deserts...

bashinda ↓

Sun, Sep 06 2009, 1:34 pm

Mama Bear: I like how you organized it according to your Baking and cooking schedule.

My menu is still in process. I'm finding that I'm in conflict between wanting to have a lower fat Rosh Hashanah and wanting to eat 5 layer apple kugel and sweet potato pie at the same time.

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Mon, Sep 07 2009, 8:01 pm

BLUEBERRY CRUMBLE KUGEL

4 C FLOUR
1 1/2 C SUGAR
2 TSP BAKING POWDER
2 VANILLA SUGAR
1 C OIL
2 EGGS
1 CAN PIE FILLING - YOU CAN PUT IN APPLE, CHERRY, BLUEBERRY, PLUM, WHATEVER.

COMBINE ALL INGREDIENTS TO FORM A CRUMBLY DOUGH. SPREAD 1/2 OF CRUMB MIXTURE INTO LARGE ROASTER PAN OR 3 NINE INCH PANS. SPREAD FILLING OVER DOUGH. COVER WITH REMAINING CRUMBS. BAKE FOR 1 HOUR AT 350.

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Mon, Sep 07 2009, 8:11 pm

Chocolate Chip Squares

Ingredients
1 cup oil
1 box brown sugar
3 eggs
3 cups flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 vanilla sugar
1 cup chocolate chips
cookie sheet

Instructions
Mix Oil, Sugar and Eggs well by hand.
Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and vanilla sugar

When mixed, add chocolate chips.

Pour into cookie sheet.
Bake 25-30 minutes until soft at 325

Cut when hot into 2X2 squares

Last edited by Mama Bear on Mon, Sep 07 2009, 8:16 pm; edited 1 time in total

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Mon, Sep 07 2009, 8:14 pm

Vegetable Muffins

Ingredients
1 onion
1 potato
1 sweet potato
32 oz california mix
4 eggs
1/4 cup mayonnaise
3 tablespoons flour
1 heaping teaspoon salt
bread crumbs
cooking spray

Instructions
Sautee onion
cook potato & sweet potato. Cut in 1/8ths, for 20 minutes after boil.
Add california mix, cook 10 minutes longer.
Add eggs, mayo, flour, salt.
Top with bread crumbs.
Bake for 1 hour @ 350 in muffin pans sprayed with cooking spray.

↑ hipstamom

Tue, Sep 08 2009, 12:14 am

Thanks for the recipe upload MamaBear! I have a can of apple pie filling and a can of cherry filling so I'll definitely try out the fruit kugel first. Re: the 9" pans, do you mean 9" X 13" or 9" round. Thanks in advance.

↑ chanchy123 ↓

Tue, Sep 08 2009, 12:36 am

3Qts wrote:

How does a yom tov BBQ work?

Wel, DH vetoed BBQ for RH, but we either keep our electric grill (what American's call a George Forman if I'm not mistaken) on a timer and grill our meat on that indoors - no mess. Or you light an acutall coal mangal (Israeli style grill) with a candle/long match from the yahrtzeit candle and do actual bbquing - messy - takes a long time until everything is done - but we've enjoyed doing this in the past as guests.
It's basically like any other cooking done on YT, and probably closer to what our forefathers did on YT eating the korbanot.
As I said, DH vetoed BBQ this YT he says it's not really shayach on RH, especially after a long day in shul.

P.S.
I've spoken to my doctor and have somewhat calmed down. I should monitor my BP and try to get some rest and drink enough water and hopefully I should be ok for now.
I'm about 33-34 weeks, my due date is late Oct.

FraydaSue ↓

Tue, Sep 08 2009, 1:26 am

I'm very into simanim. Here's my list:

Dates
Apple n honey (of course)
Pomegranite
Rubia - (black eyed beans) - make them like arbes; boil and add s+p when cold, and a bit of olive oil
Leek - great recipe - slice 2 leeks; boil with 1/2 C boiling water and a handful of raisins for approx 20 mins. When soft, add salt to taste. Then add a mixture of 2t softened margaring and 2T flour. Whisk it into the leek mixture. tastes good.
Gourd - boil up and make into a jam with lots of sugar
carrots - brown sugar glazed carrots - use baby carrots, brown sugar, margarine, water s+p; combine all ingredients and boil uncovered until carrots soft and water evaporated
Sesame seeds - great one I found years ago; pomegranite is "full of mitzvos like pg; ss are "increase and multiply . . ." - I make ss cookies
Beet salad
Fish head
Fish - separate to the head
think that's it.

We make it like a seder table with central bowls of everything in the middle of the table; everyone has a "simanim sheet" which I made up years ago and laminated. DH takes the 1st siman, says a brocha and eats; then everyone takes after him, and we all answer amen - note - it takes a while, but everyone's so full after the simanim that you don't need TOO much food after all that.

Mirabelle ↓

Tue, Sep 08 2009, 5:49 am

Ok, I really need a kick in the pants to get started!
Between DD's preschool not starting until the end of the week (camp is over, so she is with me alone all day) all my millions of doctors appointments, and the general pain of the twin pregnancy I have no idea how I will get this done!

I think that I will buy my baked goods, so at least that solves that. We are only having company for one meal, so hopefully if I plan well I can make this work!

Mamabear, I love your menu, that is totally my kind of food! I didn't even think about making chulent, but why the heck not? Very Happy

solo

Tue, Sep 08 2009, 7:14 am

fraydaSue, I like ur list of simanim.

my night menu usually looks something like this:

cinnamon raisin challah with sweet crumbs
1.apple in honey (l'shanah tova umetukah
2.fish head and gefilte fish (sh' nihiyeh l'rosh vlo lezanav
3.soup and kneidel (no pasuk for that but u can do the whole round for a full/complete year
4.plated entree:
schnitzel (she nitzal misoneinu
tzimmes (she yirbu zechuyoseinu
farfel (aleh aveiros zalen farfallen veren - yiddish
beets (I think its: sheyistalku soneinu
5. warm quince compote with ice cream

cuz its shabbos this year I think ill give everyone a plate with chicken and potatoe kugel, and serve the simanim as a platter.
I also wanna add butternut squash baked or as a muffin - its a siman as well (gourd) but forgot what u say.

I havent worked out lunch menus but shabbos will be regular shabbos food and the last day I suppose I should make a roast or something exciting for y"t.

oh and I luv shehecheyanu fruit.

↑ AlwaysGrateful

Tue, Sep 08 2009, 9:04 am

Mama Bear wrote:

Yum. Is California mix just plain mixed vegetables? Like carrots and corn and things?

caligirl

Tue, Sep 08 2009, 9:42 am

[quote="scb88"]Can't believe no one started this thread yet!

[b][u]Day 2 (Sund[/b]ay)[/u]
Salmon Bourekas with Mushroom Sauce
Turkey Roast
Jello Relish
Sweet Noodle Kugel
Not sure what else!!!![/quote]

what is your salmon bourekas with mushroom sauce recipe?

↑ Mirabelle

Tue, Sep 08 2009, 9:51 am

Mama Bear wrote:

Dizny the chulent is for shabbos. on shabbos we serve the same traditoinal foods as any other shabbos, with an additional kugel or salad to make it yomtovdig.

No no, I got that, but when I was thinking about what to serve for whatever reason, regular Shobbos didnt come to mind...