This Week's Shabbat Menu

[gnomi]

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_3)

As things to have with the challah, I'll be putting out roasted garlic and olive oil and zaatar. There will also be honey, since we're having a couple of newlyweds at our lunch table (there's a minhag (tradition) to serve honey with the challah for the first year of a marriage).

Comments

[saxikath]

So what makes the strawberry shortcake post-modernist?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It's deconstructed. Biscuits and strawberries and whipped cream all in no particular structure. That was the only way to transport them once they'd been built but not eaten (I made three trays; about 1.5 trays' worth got eaten, but then I had 1.5 trays' worth to try to fit onto one tray to get it all home).

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

As things to have with the challah, I'll be putting out roasted garlic and olive oil and zaatar.

And butter! Don't forget the butter!

Narf!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It's on the shopping list. :-)

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

nothing's better than challah with roasted garlic and zaatar. I have a ton of garlic (sadly, no zaatar. I should keep some around for these types of emergencies) so I'm going to whip some up after work. Thanks for the inspiration!
I like your creative shortcake design. That's how I ususally make desserts that are "supposed" to have some type of structure.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I've gotten into the habit of roasting garlic for Shabbat. It kind of started randomly, but both mabfan and I love it, so I've kept doing it.

And the shortcakes *had* been lovingly constructed for the sheva berachot. But joules314 and elul_3 suggested the deconstruction, and I thought it was a brilliant idea.

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

It is a brilliant idea :)
We usually have some garlic-related item for shabbat meals when we're home. I want to start a new tradition of having roast garlic on shabbat, so in 70+ years from now, my great grandchildren (Gd willing) will have garlic at their shabbat table, and they can talk about how this tradition started. Corny, yes. But that's me sometimes....

how are you feeling?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

We've got traditions that are going to be hard to explain if they get passed down, most definitely. But that's part of the fun of it all.

Doing well, except still sleepy (we're eating dinner and going to bed tonight, hiding from the universe). And for bizarre, not completely known reasons, my toe hurts. But that should be the worst of my problems, yes?

How're you doing?

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

absolutely!!!! Maybe you're sleepwalking :)

[elul-3.livejournal.com]

No fair! You're making something new! I'm just expanding the chili.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

::snerk:: It's an excuse to use up the rest of the tomato juice that I bought for the Spanish rice, since neither mabfan nor I like tomato juice qua tomato juice. But as a base for gaspacho, it does just fine. :-)

(I'm also expanding the Santa Fe salad. Since we retrieved it from you last night, there's plenty of Spanish rice left.)

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

sounds yummy and all, but i'm still curious as to why the challah in your icon is colored green...

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

For that, I have no answer. I got the icon, colored as it is, from shoegirl_icons.

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

i'm only teasing. i think i made a comment when you first introduced it, about challah being yummy, but not when it's green--unless it's St.Patrick's Day challah? heh.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I think you did, yeah.

And around here, we get green bagels on St. Patrick's Day from some bakeries.

green challah

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

idea #1: spinach challah
idea #2: garlic challah (colored by the plant more than the "spice" part?)
idea #3: to remind you that it's parve (green being one standard marker for parve in "blue is dairy, red is meat" setups)

Re: green challah

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

spinach challah actually sounds kindof appealing.
does the food itself need to be colored, or just the packaging? maybe we're looking at a normal challah loaf through that colored cellphane as wrapping.

i'm in a silly mood. must be friday.