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Oct. 27th, 2006
Rambly Bits, Erev Shabbat Edition
Oct. 27th, 2006 12:42 pm(OK, so not Erev Shabbat Jewish Blogging, per se, but close-ish)
-- It's going to rain this Shabbat. I can tell you that with almost certainty even without having checked the forecast, because it almost always rains for Parshat Noach (in which we read the section from the book of Genesis about the flood). My mother and I estimated that about 85% of the time, Parshat Noach gets rain.
-- For reasons that I haven't actually figured out, I was in the mood to make Tex-Mex food for this Shabbat. The menu is:
Gazpacho (yeah, it's not so Tex-Mex, but it goes well)
Salmon with Mango Salsa
Black bean and chocolate chili
Corn bread
Chocolate cheese pie for dessert
-- Yesterday's unexpected day off allowed me to get a good jump on my Shabbat cooking this week. I still have to make the gazpacho, cook the salmon itself (the salsa I made last night, though I'm going to make more today), and make the whipped cream for the dessert.
-- This is the first Shabbat since 22 September that wasn't Shabbat Somethingorother. We had Shabbat Shuvah the week after Rosh HaShannah, and last week was Shabbat Mevarchin MarCheshvan (the Shabbat on which we say the blessing of the new month). And, yeah, so we get Shabbat Mevarchin once a month, but it was also Machar Chodesh (the day before the beginning of the new month), so it was still something of a different Shabbat. This week is just Shabbat, with nothing different or additional in the davening (prayers) or k'riyah (Torah reading) or the haftarah (the section of prophets that is read after the Torah).
Shabbat shalom, all!
-- It's going to rain this Shabbat. I can tell you that with almost certainty even without having checked the forecast, because it almost always rains for Parshat Noach (in which we read the section from the book of Genesis about the flood). My mother and I estimated that about 85% of the time, Parshat Noach gets rain.
-- For reasons that I haven't actually figured out, I was in the mood to make Tex-Mex food for this Shabbat. The menu is:
Gazpacho (yeah, it's not so Tex-Mex, but it goes well)
Salmon with Mango Salsa
Black bean and chocolate chili
Corn bread
Chocolate cheese pie for dessert
-- Yesterday's unexpected day off allowed me to get a good jump on my Shabbat cooking this week. I still have to make the gazpacho, cook the salmon itself (the salsa I made last night, though I'm going to make more today), and make the whipped cream for the dessert.
-- This is the first Shabbat since 22 September that wasn't Shabbat Somethingorother. We had Shabbat Shuvah the week after Rosh HaShannah, and last week was Shabbat Mevarchin MarCheshvan (the Shabbat on which we say the blessing of the new month). And, yeah, so we get Shabbat Mevarchin once a month, but it was also Machar Chodesh (the day before the beginning of the new month), so it was still something of a different Shabbat. This week is just Shabbat, with nothing different or additional in the davening (prayers) or k'riyah (Torah reading) or the haftarah (the section of prophets that is read after the Torah).
Shabbat shalom, all!
