Maybe a meme?

[gnomi]

Inspired by a typo in last week's similarly themed post and a subsequent comment by 530nm330hz, a memelet:

Help me plan my Shabbat menu in the comments. Then post your Shabbat menu outline in your own blog....

It looks like I'm making both dinner and lunch this Shabbat, with one confirmed guest for both meals and a couple of possible others. The basic plot meal outline is as follows:

-- Challah and grape juice (maybe offer remains of last week's wine, as well)

-- Starter

-- Main dish (meat)

-- Side (vegetable)

-- Side (starch)

-- Dessert

I'm leaning toward beef for one meal and chicken for the other, but I'm flexible. I have lots of sides recipes that are good either cold or hot. I haven't made a Yerushalmi kugel in a good long while, so maybe I'll make one of those.

Side note: similarly themed post? similarly-themed post? beths_stanley, any hyphen-related insights? ;-)

Suggestions, anyone?

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Narf!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Is that "Narf" a vote for Yerushalmi kugel?

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Narf narf!

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Main dish: Forty Garlic Chicken. Let me know if you need a recipe.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good idea. I think I have a recipe, but if you have one you particularly like, I'd love to have it.

[xochitl42.livejournal.com]

I got you a starter:

Cut either a tomato or an avocado in half. If it's a tomato, take out the squiggly bits with a spoon.

In there you'll be putting this:
Use either canned salmon, or salmon you've cooked yourself. Mix it up with mayonnaise to taste, with capers and dill. Add a dash (or a small pile, to taste, you know?) of pepper. You won't need salt with the capers.

Each person gets a half-tomato or half-avocado full of salmon salad.

You can also dice (and drain!) cucumbers, substituting them for the salmon, if you don't want to have a fish starter for a beef or chicken meal. I myself like to have salmon with some diced cucumber.

If you're doing a dairy meal, that Fage Greek yogurt is fantastic in place of the mayonnaise. :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds yummy.

::takes notes::

[queue.livejournal.com]

I believe Chicago says to never put a hyphen after an "ly" adverb.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It looks better without the hyphen, but I wasn't sure.

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

I found a nifty thing this past weekend: braised radishes -- it takes ordinary plain old radishes and transforms them into something other, entirely. However, it does require 20 minutes at the stove. Should I send recipe?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I'm not overly fond of radishes in general, but if it makes them Other, I'd be willing to try it. So, sure. Send along the recipe. :-) Thanks!

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

This is so good -- I did throw a little vinegar on mine, just for tang, but that wasn't in the original recipe, so I left it out. Also, I cut the greens right off.

Braised Radishes

30 red radishes with greens (about 2 pounds), greens trimmed to 1/4 inch and radishes halved lengthwise
Kosher salt
3/4 teaspoon sugar
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 1/2 cups water


directions
Put the radishes in a medium sauce-pan and add 1 teaspoon of salt, the sugar, oil and water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then lower the heat to moderate, cover and simmer until the radishes are tender, about 12 minutes.
Using a slotted spoon, transfer the radishes to a serving bowl. Boil the cooking liquid over high heat until reduced to 1/4 cup, about 15 minutes. Season with salt and pour the liquid over the radishes.

[elul-3.livejournal.com]

Wine opened last week may not be so yummy for drinking now, but if you tell me what kind of wine it is and how much (appx) is left, I can try to suggest a recipe using it. (If it hasn't vinegared yet, which it is unlikely to do completely in a week.)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It's a lovely white (I think a Sauvignon Blanc-Chardonnay blend), but I'm pondering making chicken marsala, the recipe for which requires white wine, so I just might use it for that. :-)

[elul-3.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of chicken marsala with white wine (as opposed to marsala wine), but chicken + mushrooms + white wine (particularly chardonnay) = yummy, so...there ya go!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

My recipe (which didn't have white wine originally) was tweaked by a friend who worked as a professional chef, and he said, "oh! use white wine instead of the water here." So I did, and oh, yummers. :-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

(it also has marsala in it)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Bad eggs! Shame!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Egg-sactly! :-)