It is cold and rainy. And it has been for several days. At first I thought today was going to be spent dealing with an electrical crisis at our house - we came home last night to a house that had electricity in only half of it. A little while later, it came back on though, much to my relief, although I still am guessing there is faulty wiring here somewhere, and perhaps water coming into contact with said faulty wiring....
In any case, I CAN cook today after all! So tonight's supper is mostly warming foods:
Tomato Soup with black beans and rice
Baked Potatoes / Baked Sweet Potatoes
Cucumber slices with dip of some sort (the one not warming food, we have cucumbers here to use up, and since cucumbers seem to have gone up in price lately, we are trying EXTRA hard not to waste any!)
Cauliflower something or other - I have a head of cauliflower to use up! - I think I will chop it fine in the food processor and mix with a few things and make some sort of cauliflower casserole. IF it's good, I'll report back!
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Shabbat Parashat Vayakhel (Feb. 25-26, 2011)
Looking forward to a rainy Shabbat this week, if the forecast is right. We like watching the Kinneret fill up from the our mirpeset!
(I just hope all my laundry that is hanging outside dries before the rain comes...)
How do you stay warm on a rainy Shabbat in a poorly insulated house without a good heating system (it's a rental...)?
I know I have to serve warming foods (and be sure the urn is filled to the max!)...
Here's my Shabbat menu - most of it will be served both at night and for lunch (obvious exceptions being soup/stew):
Vegetable Soup
Pan-Fried Tofu, for my favorite vegetarian
Broccoli & Cauliflower Kugel - fill a casserole dish with chopped broccoli and chopped cauliflower. cover with a mixture of (well-blended) eggs, mayonnaise (yes, sounds weird, but it works), flour, water, and spices (i use salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder). bake for 1 hour at 375 F
Carrot Kugel (from the freezer!)
Chicken - whatever kind I find in the freezer that is waiting to be used!
Mushroom Barley Stew
I'm also planning to make something with chick peas, and something with cabbage (I bought some cabbage for 1.89nis/kilo and now I have to find a good use for it)...
Brownies and Peanut Butter Cookies
Let me know what you're serving!
(I just hope all my laundry that is hanging outside dries before the rain comes...)
How do you stay warm on a rainy Shabbat in a poorly insulated house without a good heating system (it's a rental...)?
I know I have to serve warming foods (and be sure the urn is filled to the max!)...
Here's my Shabbat menu - most of it will be served both at night and for lunch (obvious exceptions being soup/stew):
Vegetable Soup
Pan-Fried Tofu, for my favorite vegetarian
Broccoli & Cauliflower Kugel - fill a casserole dish with chopped broccoli and chopped cauliflower. cover with a mixture of (well-blended) eggs, mayonnaise (yes, sounds weird, but it works), flour, water, and spices (i use salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder). bake for 1 hour at 375 F
Carrot Kugel (from the freezer!)
Chicken - whatever kind I find in the freezer that is waiting to be used!
Mushroom Barley Stew
I'm also planning to make something with chick peas, and something with cabbage (I bought some cabbage for 1.89nis/kilo and now I have to find a good use for it)...
Brownies and Peanut Butter Cookies
Let me know what you're serving!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Wednesday night - Feb. 23, 2011
It's clean out the fridge day! I have so many odds and ends hanging around, time to make sure they don't go to waste. It's amazing how much food we throw out when we're not careful...
How do you minimize waste? I'd love to hear what you do...
Here's what's for supper:
Vegetable Soup (from last night)
Crustless Tomato Quiche
Roasted Cauliflower
Roasted Beets
Rice (from last night)
Make your own salad - lettuce, carrots, red pepper, honey-cinnamon'd oranges
How do you minimize waste? I'd love to hear what you do...
Here's what's for supper:
Vegetable Soup (from last night)
Crustless Tomato Quiche
Roasted Cauliflower
Roasted Beets
Rice (from last night)
Make your own salad - lettuce, carrots, red pepper, honey-cinnamon'd oranges
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Wednesday night - Feb. 16, 2011
I'm thinking about a pre-Pesach pantry challenge in a big way. Time to use up some of those things I stocked up on when I found good sales. That said, I am not going to forgo buying fresh produce, eggs, and dairy products, even chicken for Shabbat...
This morning I poked around the fridge and freezer, and I will be making supper using things I have on hand.
On the way to the table:
Yesterday's Tomato Soup - my pot is big enough to stretch it out for 2 meals!
Rice and Lentils - most people make this as one dish, but my crew is so ridiculously picky that I will make rice and I will make lentils... I make lentils very simply: start with sauteed onion, garlic, and any veggies you want to add. Add sorted and rinsed lentils to the pan, along with water and seasonings (or soup stock). cook till liquid is absorbed and the lentils are soft in texture (you may need to add more water as you go along. I don't measure quantities. I just guess.).
Roasted Cauliflower
Cottage Cheese Pancakes - I have cottage cheese that is about to go out of date. Mix it up with eggs, flour, salt and pepper and make pancakes!
Make your own salad - diced cucumbers, shredded carrots, purple cabbage, and honey-cinnamon'd oranges
What are you making for supper? Are you doing a pre-Pesach pantry challenge or freezer cleanout? I'd love to hear how you handle it!
This morning I poked around the fridge and freezer, and I will be making supper using things I have on hand.
On the way to the table:
Yesterday's Tomato Soup - my pot is big enough to stretch it out for 2 meals!
Rice and Lentils - most people make this as one dish, but my crew is so ridiculously picky that I will make rice and I will make lentils... I make lentils very simply: start with sauteed onion, garlic, and any veggies you want to add. Add sorted and rinsed lentils to the pan, along with water and seasonings (or soup stock). cook till liquid is absorbed and the lentils are soft in texture (you may need to add more water as you go along. I don't measure quantities. I just guess.).
Roasted Cauliflower
Cottage Cheese Pancakes - I have cottage cheese that is about to go out of date. Mix it up with eggs, flour, salt and pepper and make pancakes!
Make your own salad - diced cucumbers, shredded carrots, purple cabbage, and honey-cinnamon'd oranges
What are you making for supper? Are you doing a pre-Pesach pantry challenge or freezer cleanout? I'd love to hear how you handle it!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Wednesday night - Feb. 9, 2011
I'm very disappointed with this week's grocery sales. Have you found any good sales lately? I have a Rami Levy, Yesh, Mega, Kimat Chinam and Supersol near me...
Luckily, I still have plenty of produce in the fridge. Time to get creative! I'm not sure my family likes it when I get creative, since that means they have to try new things. But that's the point, so they try new things! How do you get your family to try out new foods?
On the way to the table tonight:
Split pea soup
Mock Garlic Mashed Potatoes (let's see if I can get the kids to eat the cauliflower!)
Polenta topped with roasted veggies and black beans (and some cheese for picky eaters)
Lettuce, Purple Cabbage, Honey Cinnamon'd Oranges, Cucumber, and Avocado Salad
Some notes:
Mock Garlic Mashed Potatoes - I'll puree cooked cauliflower with roasted garlic and other seasonings as the mood hits me, and serve it like mashed potatoes. Rumor has it it's pretty good like this. We'll see how it goes...
Polenta is pretty easy to make. I make it kind of runny so I can pour it into a well greased quiche pan. Then, I top it with all sorts of things - right now I have lots of tomatoes and red peppers, so that will be most of the topping, along with black beans. Then bake it for about 20 - 25 minutes... I have a feeling I may have to melt some cheese on top for my picky eaters!
Once again, I'm serving the salad "salad bar-style". Everybody wins!
Luckily, I still have plenty of produce in the fridge. Time to get creative! I'm not sure my family likes it when I get creative, since that means they have to try new things. But that's the point, so they try new things! How do you get your family to try out new foods?
On the way to the table tonight:
Split pea soup
Mock Garlic Mashed Potatoes (let's see if I can get the kids to eat the cauliflower!)
Polenta topped with roasted veggies and black beans (and some cheese for picky eaters)
Lettuce, Purple Cabbage, Honey Cinnamon'd Oranges, Cucumber, and Avocado Salad
Some notes:
Mock Garlic Mashed Potatoes - I'll puree cooked cauliflower with roasted garlic and other seasonings as the mood hits me, and serve it like mashed potatoes. Rumor has it it's pretty good like this. We'll see how it goes...
Polenta is pretty easy to make. I make it kind of runny so I can pour it into a well greased quiche pan. Then, I top it with all sorts of things - right now I have lots of tomatoes and red peppers, so that will be most of the topping, along with black beans. Then bake it for about 20 - 25 minutes... I have a feeling I may have to melt some cheese on top for my picky eaters!
Once again, I'm serving the salad "salad bar-style". Everybody wins!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Tuesday Night (Feb. 8, 2011)
I'm a little under the weather, but I still need to run my household. I hung out a couple of loads of laundry today, even though it's raining (I put the drying racks in the covered part of my mirpeset). (I have no dryer)
I didn't think of putting on a coat for that task... I'm cold.
If you have great warming foods to serve, please tell me! I could use some creative and different ideas.
My kids are wondering why I've been serving soup so often lately. Don't they notice it warms them AND fills them?
Here's tonight's menu:
Minestrone Soup
Cheesy Baked Cauliflower
Rice
Roasted Beets
Tomato and Chick Pea Salad
Some notes about this menu:
Minestrone Soup is very forgiving - you can really use all sorts of veggies in it!
I'm experimenting with the cheesy baked cauliflower. I bought a whole lot of cauliflower for 1.99 NIS/kilo. Now I hope I have the energy to clean and check it... I know cheese is not the most frugal food, but you can stretch it pretty far with enough ingenuity.
I will make oven-baked rice, since I'm roasting beets also, and I'll probably bake something else since the oven will be on already. Date bread? Chocolate Cake? Cookies?
I cooked a lot of chick peas the other day, and now we need to be sure to eat them... so we're having a salad repeat. Especially since tomatoes were 1.99 NIS/kilo...
Let me know what you're making for supper!
I didn't think of putting on a coat for that task... I'm cold.
If you have great warming foods to serve, please tell me! I could use some creative and different ideas.
My kids are wondering why I've been serving soup so often lately. Don't they notice it warms them AND fills them?
Here's tonight's menu:
Minestrone Soup
Cheesy Baked Cauliflower
Rice
Roasted Beets
Tomato and Chick Pea Salad
Some notes about this menu:
Minestrone Soup is very forgiving - you can really use all sorts of veggies in it!
I'm experimenting with the cheesy baked cauliflower. I bought a whole lot of cauliflower for 1.99 NIS/kilo. Now I hope I have the energy to clean and check it... I know cheese is not the most frugal food, but you can stretch it pretty far with enough ingenuity.
I will make oven-baked rice, since I'm roasting beets also, and I'll probably bake something else since the oven will be on already. Date bread? Chocolate Cake? Cookies?
I cooked a lot of chick peas the other day, and now we need to be sure to eat them... so we're having a salad repeat. Especially since tomatoes were 1.99 NIS/kilo...
Let me know what you're making for supper!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Monday Night
Aside from the frugal aspect, I'm looking for easy meals. We usually have busy days, and since I homeschool my 4 kids, I really don't have much downtime...ever.
For Monday evening, I'm looking to incorporate leftovers into the plan (I've been trying harder not to have to throw those out. If you have tips to make sure that leftovers get used up, please share! My kids sometimes groan when they see a food served "AGAIN".).
I just took stock of the fridge, and while most of our Shabbat food actually got eaten (and the leftover barley went into the freezer), we have plenty of vegetable noodle soup left!
(By the way, I'm really big on soup right now. It's winter, and we live in a "warm" location in Israel, which means we have a poorly insulated house and not-so-efficient heaters. And it's raining - a good thing! In other words, sometimes it's colder inside our house than out, and I'm too frugal to heat the place all the time!)
So here's what we'll be eating (it's a vegan menu!):
Vegetable-Noodle Soup
Sloppy "Sams" in pitot
Steamed Cauliflower and Broccoli
Oven-crisp Roasted Potato Wedges
I rarely do dessert during the week, but maybe I'll even bake muffins! I have a few wrinkly apples to use up.
Some notes about these foods:
The soup is the same one from Friday night. I keep all my Shabbat soups pareve, so I can use them again during the beginning of the week.
Sloppy Sams are Vegetarian Sloppy Joes. I'm making these with drained and crumbled tofu (I buy these at Kimat Chinam; if you buy 3 tofu cubes at a time, they are 3/23.99 NIS. Does anyone have a better deal to share?), browned in olive oil with diced onion and peppers, cooked with tomato paste, water, and spices. We still haven't worked out the perfect combination of Sloppy Sam spices, so if you have any TNT recipes, please share!
Cauliflower and Broccoli - the cauliflower was on sale for 1 NIS/kilo, so we'll be going heavy on the cauliflower, light on the brocolli. The best price I found for broccoli was 8 NIS/kilo at Yesh. Kimat Chinam was 14 NIS/kilo and Rami Levy something like 17 NIS/kilo. My kids love broccoli, so I figured I would have to continue to buy it and stretch it with the cauliflower...
For the Potato Wedges, I usually combine olive oil, mustard, garlic, salt, and pepper. Mix well with potato wedges (just scrub and cut - leave those peels on so you get the vitamins and trace minerals!), and bake in the oven at 400 F till crispy and turning brown. The kids like to eat them with ketchup...
For Monday evening, I'm looking to incorporate leftovers into the plan (I've been trying harder not to have to throw those out. If you have tips to make sure that leftovers get used up, please share! My kids sometimes groan when they see a food served "AGAIN".).
I just took stock of the fridge, and while most of our Shabbat food actually got eaten (and the leftover barley went into the freezer), we have plenty of vegetable noodle soup left!
(By the way, I'm really big on soup right now. It's winter, and we live in a "warm" location in Israel, which means we have a poorly insulated house and not-so-efficient heaters. And it's raining - a good thing! In other words, sometimes it's colder inside our house than out, and I'm too frugal to heat the place all the time!)
So here's what we'll be eating (it's a vegan menu!):
Vegetable-Noodle Soup
Sloppy "Sams" in pitot
Steamed Cauliflower and Broccoli
Oven-crisp Roasted Potato Wedges
I rarely do dessert during the week, but maybe I'll even bake muffins! I have a few wrinkly apples to use up.
Some notes about these foods:
The soup is the same one from Friday night. I keep all my Shabbat soups pareve, so I can use them again during the beginning of the week.
Sloppy Sams are Vegetarian Sloppy Joes. I'm making these with drained and crumbled tofu (I buy these at Kimat Chinam; if you buy 3 tofu cubes at a time, they are 3/23.99 NIS. Does anyone have a better deal to share?), browned in olive oil with diced onion and peppers, cooked with tomato paste, water, and spices. We still haven't worked out the perfect combination of Sloppy Sam spices, so if you have any TNT recipes, please share!
Cauliflower and Broccoli - the cauliflower was on sale for 1 NIS/kilo, so we'll be going heavy on the cauliflower, light on the brocolli. The best price I found for broccoli was 8 NIS/kilo at Yesh. Kimat Chinam was 14 NIS/kilo and Rami Levy something like 17 NIS/kilo. My kids love broccoli, so I figured I would have to continue to buy it and stretch it with the cauliflower...
For the Potato Wedges, I usually combine olive oil, mustard, garlic, salt, and pepper. Mix well with potato wedges (just scrub and cut - leave those peels on so you get the vitamins and trace minerals!), and bake in the oven at 400 F till crispy and turning brown. The kids like to eat them with ketchup...
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