The Return of the Menu Skeleton

[gnomi]

This Shabbat, we're home for dinner (with 2 3 4 guests) and out for lunch. So, dinner skeleton:

-- Challah and grape juice
-- Starter (gazpacho? other cold soup?)Chilled berry soup (from Moosewood Cookbook, suggested by lucretia_borgia)
-- Three-cheese macaroni and cheese (not a macaroni penguin)
-- Some veggie or other
-- Chocolate chip cookie bars

Simple meal, but (I hope) tasty and satisfying.

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Gazpacho! Yes!

Narf!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Narf!

Now leaning toward froot sooop (see below).

[tru2myart.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful! What's Challah exactly?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Challah (http://www.jewfaq.org/food.htm#Challah) is the traditional braided egg bread we use on Shabbat and festivals. See the link for much more information.

I have a recipe that I learned from lcmlc when I was a child. One of these days, I'll bake my own again.

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

A lot of places have berries on sale this week (raspberries a buck a box at Jonny D's -- doesn't help you any, I know, but I think I saw S&S has berries, too). If I were having guests I'd make the Moosewood berry soup. With cream. Yum!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, good plan. Yum, indeed.

Though maybe half-and-half, not cream? I'm just thinking...

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling like I have to make up for the lost calories from yesterday. Diet notwithstanding.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heh. True enough.

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

you of course will be sharing the mac and cheese recipe. And the fruit soup.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

But of course!

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

Can you give me the name of the mac and cheese cookbook? I want a copy, as does my friend, who can eat that 24/7.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I have it at home, so I'll post it tonight. The one I'm making for Shabbat, actually, is my own changes to a found-online recipe for a very basic mac and cheese.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Conveniently enough, the title of the cookbook is Macaroni and Cheese by Marlena Spieler, ISBN 0-8118-4962-7 (ISBN-13 978-0-8118-4962-3).

[cellio]

Some veggie or other

Asparagus would be nice with that. Or consider a spinach salad with mandarins and pine nuts.