oookay, rosh hashana is coming up...

↑ btMOMtoFFBs ↓

Mon, Aug 11 2008, 11:45 am

Downs, I think you are so smart to do all that complicated cooking now. I am lucky, my kids (ages 7, 5, 3) usu. just eat hot dogs or Matza Ball soup. Both of those are really easy to make. I have started making soup in the crock pot while I'm at work.

Just put the soup bones in water in the crock pot and come home to rich, hearty broth! Strain, cool and freeze in portions. Then I just add a little water and a few cut veggies and kneidlach right before YT starts so its ready for dinner.

It is so easy and safe. I don't have to worry about leaving the stove on while I'm not home, and don't have to start cooking soup for hours and hours only starting at 1:00 when I come home.

↑ downsyndrome

Mon, Aug 11 2008, 11:52 am

btMOMtoFFBs wrote:

lol! lol! I am NOT doing that cooking now; I am sitting up here in the country twiddling my thumbs, in preparation of the tremendous work load that awaits our homecoming IY"H (plus the birth of an einikel somewhere in between too IY"H Very Happy

). I was just mentally going through what will need to be done.

I can't prepare soup in the crock pot. Chicken soup in my home is a major food and a major project. I usually put up a 16-quart and 12-quart pot simultaneously (that's all my cooktop will hold, otherwise I'd put up more and save myself future work) and when all is said and done I have approximately 4 seudas worth of soup. So think about it; we are going to need close to, maybe 15?, soups for the upcoming Yom Tov/Shabbos season (of course depending on family dietary minhagim; we always eat chicken soup on Friday night, Rosh Hashona night and some other Yom Tov nights as well, including Erev Yom Kippur for second seudah and MOtzei Yom Kippur). This year I will also cook all soups for my daughter IY"H, who will IY"H be a kimpeturin, Hashem-willing, a healthy, busy one.
I wish you so much hatzlacha; I can't imagine what it's like to be a working mom during these very busy Yom Tov times. Hats off!!

↑ btMOMtoFFBs

Mon, Aug 11 2008, 12:07 pm

Downs, That A LOT of soup! Sounds like you've got it down to a science.

I just can't relate - we are a small family and my DH and I rarely eat soup at the meal cuz then we're too full to eat the main course. The only time we eat it is when we're freezing in the sukkah at night. My kids eat it by the gallon, though. Yay! They get so many fresh carrots and celery in that way!

As for being a working mom, well at least I have a wonderful job of imparting a love of Yiddishkeit and teaching social skills to beautiful little Jewish neshamahs! (Including my own little DD who gets to go to the pre-school in the the Yeshiva where I work while she's 3 and 4!) I can't think of a better job to have to have outside of the home. : )

sarahd

Mon, Aug 11 2008, 2:58 pm

Dh is going to his Rebbe for R"H, so I won't be cooking too much. I'll probably go to my ILs for at least one, maybe two seudos. For the rest, a little chicken and ferfel with some tzimmis will do it for me. My kids don't eat. I already have some chicken soup in the freezer.

I baked all the challos I need till R"H, so my next baking will be round challos. After I get back from America, where I'll buy raisins (can't find kosher raisins here lately.) My mother's making me kreplach, so I don't need to think about that.

Honey cake I need to bake, to send with my husband.

We'll be spending Sukkos in E"Y iy"h and I want to cook everything in advance, freeze it and bring it along. I guess I should plan those menus now and take care of them.