Guests for both meals this week, two for dinner and four (plus a baby) for lunch.

Now, yes, I realize that it's Shabbat during the Nine Days, and therefore it is common to be sure to have meat on Shabbat, but (a) next week we also have a Shabbat of the Nine Days, so we could do meat then and (b) it's too hot for me to flip my kitchen.

Menus

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Lunch, up to four guests (three so far confirmed), weather predicted to be 86F and partly cloudy.

-- Challah with olive oil, zaatar, maybe roasted garlic

-- Gazpacho

-- Baked shells in cream sauce with cauliflower (recipe from On Top of Spaghetti)

-- Bill's Swiss Cheese Vegetable Medley (recipe from mabfan's former coworker ( Read more... )

So, here we are, heading into Yom Tov. Food is finishing up, with the following menu:

-- Fruit soup (recipe from Moosewood Cookbook, with my adaptations)
-- Lasagna (recipe from Aunt Gloria)
-- Cheese kugel (recipe from introverte)
-- Swiss vegetable medley (recipe from former coworker of mabfan-- Chocolate cheese pie with berries and splorp (recipe originally ( Read more... )

Or, the return of the menu skeleton:

-- Grape juice
-- Challah
-- Stuff to put on challah: olive oil, zaatar, maybe roasted garlic
-- Starter of some sort (is it too whatever to do corn chowder as a starter?) Corn Chowder
-- Baked ziti
-- Veggie of some sort (marinated cauliflower salad, maybe? maybe ginger and garlic broccoli?) Ginger and Garlic ( Read more... )

So, this week we're out for dinner and home (with one possible guest) for lunch. Menu (well, most of one ( Read more... )

Made last night ( Read more... )

So, mabfan and I are going to osewalrus's parents' place for Thanksgiving, but I'm randomly in the mood to cook Thanksgiving-appropriate food. So, I figured, why not do so for Shabbat dinner. Here's the menu I'm thinking of right now:

-- Turkey
-- Herbed stuffing I made in 2004
-- Mashed potatoes? Sweet potatoes? Both?
-- Ginger and garlic broccoli-- Pumpkin ( Read more... )

Shabbat dinner menu

-- Grape juice
-- Challah with olive oil and zaatar
-- Roasted garlic
-- Curried lentil soup
-- Honey ginger-glazed carrots
-- Mushrooms Stroganoff (with added non-meat)
-- Mexican brownies

Since we're out for lunch, I bring you... dinner:

-- Challah
-- Grape juice
-- Chilled berry soup (from The Moosewood Cookbook with my own adjustments)
-- Santa Fe bean salad
-- Spanish rice
-- Strawberry shortcake
-- Possibly more berries not used for the soup

No guests for dinner; guests for lunch. Menu very similar for both, so here's the basics:

-- Challah and grape juice
-- Gaspacho
-- Santa Fe Bean Salad
-- Spanish Rice
-- Post-Modernist Strawberry Shortcake (name courtesy of elul_3As things to have with the challah, I'll be putting out roasted garlic and olive oil and zaatar. There will also be honey ( Read more... )