I am thinking about making a precise pesach menu so that way I'm not overbuying for things I won't even be using for pesach. This will include during the week.

We don't eat kitniyos, quinoa, or egg matzos. We also keep a stricter version of kitniyos that is kept in E'Y. We do eat gebrokts. We keep 1 day y't.

Most of these recipes are friendly to ( Read more... )

 This week I tried to do a smaller shopping than usual because I had lots of vegetables and starches and proteins left from last week in the house.

This is the menu for the coming week:
Tuesday lunch and supper- Spaghetti and tomato sauce with vegetables and tvp chunks (chunks about the size of a grape- a mock meat that I got for 16 shekel a kilo and ( Read more... )

I felt like doing something a little bit different this week. And I have an admission- I am using up leftover tomato sauce from pizza I made on wednesday ( Read more... )

I had a Shabbos menu all planned and partially cooked, and then I got a call from a seminary asking me to host 2 girls for shaleshudes, the third shabbos meal, which we usually make very small and eat the barest minimum just in order to fulfill the obligation of three meals for shabbos. So I needed to make more food. Here is my (hopefully final) ( Read more... )

After a very successful shabbos in terms of food (everyone loved everything!), I decided that I had to share what I made. It was sorta thanksgiving theme-ish. Woulda been more if sweet potatoes were cheaper and my husband didnt forget the cranberries...

Friday night:
Onion soup

Swiss chard and mushrooms with Hawaj seasoning (swiss chard from my ( Read more... )

I had had one plan originally for this week, but after a tray of 30 eggs fell on to the floor (they were in a shopping bag tied to my stroller that loosened on its own), smashing some and cracking many others that were salvageable but needed to be used, I decided to make my shabbos menu a little more egg heavy ( Read more... )

 Here's this week's shabbos plan:

Lachuch (better get cracking- shabbos is in 4 hours and i havent made these yet or even started them rising)

Pink fish salad
Fennel salad
Pickled and spicy Carrot salad (gotta still make this)
Homemade chumus
Techina
Salsa
Sauerkraut

Chicken soup

Brown rice with craisins and scallions
Sweet  and sour beef tongue (was as cheap ( Read more... )

All the food already cooked for Shabbos. The last few things- beets in the pressure cooker on the stove, eggplant charring in the oven on broiler setting. Eggplant is done. I turn off the oven, hear a loud pop, smell a burnt smell, and all the lights in the house go off. Absolute silence. The oven just shorted the electricity in the house. Again. ( ( Read more... )

 My mother appeared at my door today  with a huge shopping bag, stuffed to the brim with swiss chard from her garden. That, combined with the fact that ground beef was on tremendous sale today helped me decide what we're having for shabbos.

Homemade herbed challah

Fish souffle (my made up recipe with tuna, eggs, flour, and onion.)
Beet salad
Chilbeh
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I just had a really frustrating past 24 hours ( Read more... )