The Return of the Shabbat Menu Skeleton

[gnomi]

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)

-- Another veggie? Another starch?

-- Dessert of some sort

Comments

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

Hey! I was just asking for good Gazpacho recipes. What's yours? :D

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i second the request for your gazpacho!

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

The baked shells in cream sauce with cauliflower sound nothing sort of amazing!!! :)

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

Mm. Swiss Cheese Vegetable Medley? *perks* (I can't have pastas anymore, so I'm always looking for new ways to get creamy cheesy sauces onto my veggies.)

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Challah with olive oil, zaatar, maybe roasted garlic

Suddenly I find I'm very hungry.

How about black bean salad:
1 can black beans
1 medium tomato, diced
1 red pepper, diced
1/2 red onion, sliced fairly small
juice of 1 lime
cumin and salt to taste
cilantro
optional: sour cream, crumbled corn chips

[elul-3.livejournal.com]

Green beans! They should finally have some at the market this week, too. Either do your famous roasted green beans, served cold, or steam them lightly and dress them just before serving with soy sauce + OJ + canola oil + sesame oil (even better if you reduce the soy sauce and OJ mixture into a thicker syrup beforehand, and even even better if you do that step with a couple of sliced of candied ginger in the pot).

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

Care to share the swiss cheese medley recipe? I LOVE swiss cheese!
don't forget the AC, or a fan at the very least if it's going to be that hot.

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

echoing what elul_3 said...did you ever post how well those garlicky green beans went over, when you made them? that was a while ago. i still haven't made them myself yet.

[eal.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to see you like On Top of Spaghetti -- we get a lot of use out of it, too.

B loves the pantry pasta :).

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It's less a recipe and more a melange. I patterned it on the gazpacho that a friend used to make for us, but he puts in pickles and I don't. But I'll be happy to post my ingredients and method once I've found out what's available veggie-wise.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'll post it (well, ingredients and method; it's not really a recipe per se) once I've got an idea of what veggies are available to me this time.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'll post the recipe; it's quite yummy.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'll type up the recipe sometime this week, if I get a free moment. It's a great recipe (even if it's not particularly *healthy* overall).

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds yummy. I could do that, or you've just reminded me I could do Santa Fe Bean Salad as a side. I shall have to ponder.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Is that the dressing you made for the beans you served last time mabfan and I came for Shabbat dinner? I loved those.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Fans in the living room. The AC is only in the bedroom this year.

And I'll be posting the recipe once I type it up. It's quite yummy.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

The roasted marinated green beans are always a big hit. And the garlic-ginger broccoli was also a big hit (if that's the recipe you're thinking of). I've made it a couple of times now.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I've only started exploring recipes from it, but I've liked what I've found. I was on a quest for a pasta sauce without tomatoes, and this one fit the bill perfectly.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

you could also make black bean and corn salad, which is pretty much the same thing except with a can of corn instead of tomato, and with some red wine vinegar to taste. dunno how well it goes with challah, tho....

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)

I adore cauliflower in all forms.

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

ah! yes, my brainwires were crossing. i wrote the recipe down and stuck it in my recipe notebook and then forgot about it.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

The Santa Fe Bean salad is black beans, salsa, corn, cilantro, green and red peppers, and something I'm forgetting, I think. It's most excellently yummy.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

You could ask pressburger if he has his recipe typed up anywhere.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I don't actually want a recipe. I like being able to make it based on what vegetables I have available.

[magid.livejournal.com]

The Tiger&Strawberries blog (syndicated on LJ as tigerberries) just had a post about gazpacho with Moroccan flavors, if you're in the mood to experiment.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, yum. I'll have to take a look. Thanks!

Since we're having guests-of-unknown-food-issues, I think I'll stick with the standard, but I'll definitely check them out for future gazpacho needs.

[lisafeld.livejournal.com]

Wow, i never thought of zatar and garlic for challah (I usually assume they need a really neutral bread, not a sweet one) but it sounds intriguing. I'll have to try it!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I meant, for you to pass on as requested... if he has one preexisting, it would save you from having to compose one (especially since you prefer to improvise, as you say).