Whats for shabbos meal tonight?

↑ Clarissa ↓

Wed, Jan 14 2009, 8:41 am

Not intriguing at all. Just a gazpacho that I'm making because I have some leftover hothouse cucumber and tomatoes, and my husband hates the way I waste the hothouse cucumbers. The only reason it's called breakfast gazpacho is because it's in a breakfast cookbook -- it could just as well have been called Lunch Gazpacho or Dinner Gazpacho.

↑ shnitzel ↓

Wed, Jan 14 2009, 9:28 am

Starhavah wrote:

shnitzel wrote:

Friday Night
Roast garlic oil
Matbucha
Turkey Albondigas Soup
Smashed potatoes
Honey mustard Chicken
Salad
Sweet and sticky green beans
Salted caramel cheesecake
Fruit

How do you make parve cheesecake?

Parve cream cheese and parve sour cream! There is a grocery store near me that has a lot of soy products.

↑ miriamnechama ↓

Wed, Jan 14 2009, 1:00 pm

chanchy123 wrote:

We're having different guests for friday night and shabbat day (our original guests bailed out)
Fri. night:
grape juice
50% whole weat challah baked by DH
Onion soup in bread bowls (they came out great just like in resturants, but a bit small DH is a very talented baker)
salmon of some sort (I'd like good ideas)
mushroom lasgna
roasted sweet potatoes with rosemary and garlic
maybe rice with Pereg seasoning (I think I have almonds, onions, and craisons)
a salad (I think I'll ask my guest to bring salad)
for desert we will have a cream crumb cake

shabbat day:
chopped liver
doritos salad
cholent (again one of DH's specialties)
some kind of chicken
couscous w/ sauteed veggies
and a kugal I have in the freezer (either onion or spinage noodle)
for dessert apple crisp and store bought pareve ice cream

seuda shilishit:
salads and cheeses

what's doritos salad?? how do you make it??

↑ Raisin ↓

Wed, Jan 14 2009, 1:25 pm

cookielady wrote:

I can't believe it's Wednesday. I have no idea what I am cooking or baking!

are you trying to stress me out? I'm thinking, only wednesday and cookie is thinking about shabbos!

I just listened to an online shluchos workshop on time management and this was the best line: After several years of making shabbos, if you have to look at a cookbook for a recipe you are overdoing it.

as for me...

freshly baked challa (once you have this everyone is happy anyway)
fish and dips
fresh salad
chicken
roast baby potaotos
some sort of vegetable kugel
green beans
apple crumble

day
fish and dips
smoked salmon
egg salad
sesame noodles
cholent
kugel

↑ chocolate moose ↓

Wed, Jan 14 2009, 1:48 pm

Raisin wrote:

I just listened to an online shluchos workshop on time management and this was the best line: After several years of making shabbos, if you have to look at a cookbook for a recipe you are overdoing it.

Really; I'd think the opposite.

↑ Raisin ↓

Wed, Jan 14 2009, 1:54 pm

chocolate moose wrote:

Raisin wrote:

Really; I'd think the opposite.

well she is talking about very busy shluchos who have a hundred things to juggle. Making fancy kugels for shabbos is probably not the best use of time. (although she said...if you enjoy it, do it, but not on friday)

And I find cooking much easier when I know the recipes by heart.

↑ chocolate moose ↓

Wed, Jan 14 2009, 1:58 pm

Raisin wrote:

well she is talking about very busy shluchos who have a hundred things to juggle. Making fancy kugels for shabbos is probably not the best use of time. (although she said...if you enjoy it, do it, but not on friday) And I find cooking much easier when I know the recipes by heart.

I've had to stir baking soda or whatever into cakes after a few minutes in the oven far too many times. I taught dd to chazer the ingredient list of any recpe before it's baked/cooked/served.

as far as being a busy shaliach, I can't touch that ideology, but I'd venture to say that all mothers are busy mothers...all working women are busy ..... and I don't think of a kugel as fancy unless you have to maybe separate eggs or carmelize sugar, but even then ....

↑ pinktichel ↓

Wed, Jan 14 2009, 3:29 pm

Raisin wrote:

chocolate moose wrote:

Raisin wrote:

Really; I'd think the opposite.

That's why I start on Wednesdays! (Not that "several years" applies to me...) I am SO incredibly slow in the kitchen that if I left everything to Friday, we wouldn't have a Shabbos meal! I'm not exaggerating. There are times when I've been helping my SIL and she's made 3 salads in the time I've made one! Rolling Eyes

↑ Raisin ↓

Wed, Jan 14 2009, 3:48 pm

pinktichel wrote:

Raisin wrote:

chocolate moose wrote:

Raisin wrote:

Really; I'd think the opposite.

I bet your kitchen stays tidy while you cook, mine doesn't. I cook mainly on friday, but I only get away with that because I have a cleaning lady come before shabbos and clean up.

↑ Raisin ↓

Wed, Jan 14 2009, 4:12 pm

pinktichel wrote:

Raisin wrote:

chocolate moose wrote:

Raisin wrote:

Really; I'd think the opposite.

having read your menu, I would need to start on sunday to cook all that! Oh, and your sil lets you help her???? I'm not considered competant enough. LOL

↑ pinktichel ↓

Thu, Jan 15 2009, 12:06 am

Raisin wrote:

pinktichel wrote:

Raisin wrote:

chocolate moose wrote:

Raisin wrote:

Really; I'd think the opposite.

having read your menu, I would need to start on sunday to cook all that! Oh, and your sil lets you help her???? I'm not considered competant enough. LOL

Honey, she told me in a nice, loving way that I'm not competent either... I'm too slow for her and it's not worth it. LOL

Hey, it comes in handy to be slow... I don't get asked to work!!!!!!! Twisted Evil

Btw, I did start last week... the cookies are all in the freezer! The only reason I'm on the computer now is cuz I'm out of onions so I can't do anything... ok, I could make fish and shnitzel but I don't want to! LOL

↑ chanchy123 ↓

Thu, Jan 15 2009, 12:12 am

miriamnechama wrote:

what's doritos salad?? how do you make it??

I take lettuce and veggies, usually:
1 or 2 tomatos
1 carrot (thin slices - I use a pealer)
thin slices of a small red onion
1 or 2 cucumbers
sometimes I add fresh mushrooms or red pepper
a fruit of some sort (apple, pear, peach)
sometimes craisons

of course you can use whatever you like and have in the house.

I use a honey mustard dressing:
2 tbs mayo
1 tbs mustard
1 tbs honey/brown sugar
1 tbs viniger

and on top I put a bag of plain flavored doritos (or if you have other corn chips I guess they'd go just as well). Be sure to add the chips right before serving.

↑ chocolate moose ↓

Thu, Jan 15 2009, 7:52 am

Raisin wrote:

I bet your kitchen stays tidy while you cook, mine doesn't. I cook mainly on friday, but I only get away with that because I have a cleaning lady come before shabbos and clean up.

When dd was in high school she would clean up after I was done. Now she's working and we BH have a dishwasher.

It's tiring to plan, shop, cook, and clean up all on your own steam, and remember you have to actually serve it too !

↑ chanchy123 ↓

Thu, Jan 15 2009, 8:29 am

I think I more or less have a menu:
fri. night:
sweet and sour meatballs (from freezer)
chicken soup
Israeli salad
chicken
roasted new potatoes
sauted green beans with sesame

dessert, if I have time so banana cake otherwise either cookies from freezer or fruit salad.

Shabbat day:
stuff your own tortilla
My style Guacamole
a baked bean dip
maybe store bought salsa (if I store buy it some time between now and shabbat)
chili chont
white rice
sliced veggies
dessert like fri night

Seuda shilishit:
salads, maybe shabbat cereal and milk