Shabbat Menu -- Rosh Chodesh Av

[gnomi]

Guests for both meals this week, two for dinner and four (plus a baby) for lunch.

Now, yes, I realize that it's Shabbat during the Nine Days, and therefore it is common to be sure to have meat on Shabbat, but (a) next week we also have a Shabbat of the Nine Days, so we could do meat then and (b) it's too hot for me to flip my kitchen.

Menus

Friday Dinner:

-- Challah, grape juice
-- Olive oil and zaatar for the challah
-- Mixed berry soup
-- Three-cheese baked ziti
-- Honey-ginger glazed carrots
-- Roasted, marinated green beans
-- Dessert brought by guests

Shabbat Lunch:

-- Challah, grape juice
-- Olive oil and zaatar for the challah
-- Mixed berry soup
-- Tortellini with mustard-pesto sauce
-- Honey-ginger glazed carrots
-- Broccoli-rice casserole
-- Dessert brought by guests

Comments

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

oohhh, berry soup. Sounds delish!!! Actally, the whole menu sounds pretty darn tasty :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

The berry soup is easy-peasy. It's one of the recipes I still have to type up and post.

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

Is there a good way/practical way to keep kosher for me when Annie, who is not Jewish, is eating other, non-kosher foods? Is it OK to designate certain shelving in the fridge, for example, would that be separate enough?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm really not sure. You'd have to ask your rabbi the best way to go about doing so.

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

I kind of figured - I just am not comfortable with our current rabbi and I usually try to avoid talking to her if I can help it, which is horrible, I know, but we're like oil and water.

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

if you felt so inclined to post the ziti recipe, I would be oh so happy. I think I can make ziti and freeze it for future consumption. I'm trying to think of some things I can make ahead and freeze. Berry soup is one of those things you can also blend and have as a breakfast smoothie, which is making my mouth water as I think about it.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Other things you can make ahead and freeze include lasagna, quiche, and many soups (chicken (if you eat meat), lentil, etc). Many casseroles do fine also.

[sharonaf.livejournal.com]

Have I ever mentioned how nice it is to know that we're not the only family to make milchig shabbos meals?
*grins*
We had Moroccan chickpea stew over rice and an eggplant pie with Meunster cheese... chocolate pudding for dessert and homemade sushi for appetizer. People around here think we're crazy, until they hear we /don't/ in fact choke down plain tofu every week...

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

A few years ago, I was telling a to-the-right-of-me friend that we had just shifted our kitchen over to all-milchig, and after a dumbfounded silence she finally said, "but what do you eat for shabbas?"

I explained that we eat dairy, or parve, and named off a few recipes.

"But what do you do for CHOLENT?!!?

(At which point I changed the subject.)

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, sounds good. Sorry we missed you at shul this morning, assuming you were there (we weren't: lunch across town, ending at a time perfectly coordinated with the 3:30 downpour). Hope you had a good shabbas!