I've been doing well with the pantry challenge so far - we bought milk (as predicted), bananas (do your kids eat bananas like mine do?), and fresh yeast. And we're keeping a list of all those things we discovered we're out of and we've been making do and improvising!
Tonight we are having another hearty soup! I love serving soup. While cooking, it warms up the kitchen, and while we're eating it, no one is asking me to turn on the heater! (They may ask right before and right after, but not while they are actually eating it!) And if it's a thick soup, it fills everyone up and I can cook fewer dishes and wash fewer dishes, too. Win-win!
So here's the menu:
Homemade dinner rolls
Lentil soup with rice (I'm posting the recipe and pics soon!)
Carrots, cucumbers, green peppers
What's on your table tonight?
I started this site because so many of the frugal food sites I love are just jam-packed with recipes that are decidedly un-kosher. And lots of other frugal living sites are extremely religious, and not in a Jewish way. And that just wasn’t working for me. I hope that I can share some ways to be frugal AND kosher. And share some of my thoughts about our life since making Aliyah. Oh, and if you share my recipes, menus, musings, etc, please link back to this blog. Thank you.
I'm with you on the soup! ...Especially the ones that don't require sauteing, just dumping everything in the pot.
ReplyDeleteAvocados were on sale at Rami Levi last week, and we've been having them in our salads every night this week. Tonight I think we'll have avocado pita melts to finish off a couple more, and then it's guacamole with the challah on Shabbos! I have seriously never eaten so many avocados in my life.
I don't really like lentils ... have you another soup to offer me for tonight - after last nights success
ReplyDeletemy standard vegetable soup? it's really good - you can add noodles if you want vegetable-noodle soup! find it here: http://kosherfrugalmenus.blogspot.com/2011/01/shabbat-menu.html (sorry, there aren't any pictures. the instructions are at the bottom of the post)
ReplyDeleteOK - I had already decided on a veggie soup - I only have carrots, potatos, onions and garlic - and I added tomato paste. Do I throw the noodles in uncooked at the end, or cook them separately?
ReplyDeleteI cook them separately, and drain off the starchy water. but i know people who cook them right in the soup. it probably doesn't make much difference...
ReplyDeleteWhen does the pantry challenge end? I want you to buy more chumus! (And please make sure it's not mizrachi chumus.)
ReplyDeletenext week, kiddo. maybe we'll buy ground sesame seeds and make our OWN chumus. what do you say?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds cool.
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