Still cold out, and it's supposed to rain. Not just rain, maybe even a thunderstorm. THAT makes me want to crawl back under my covers! So, here's a menu for warming us all up:
Creamy tomato soup - saute onion (in butter) with salt and allspice, till onion is translucent and fragrant. sprinkle in 2 T. flour and cook 5 min more, while stirring. Add chopped tomatoes (canned or fresh - with fresh, you'll have to cook it longer, but it gives it a really great flavor if you have great tomatoes) and 1/4 t. baking soda. mix the pot and allow to simmer for about 30 min. (but watch it and stir it occasionally) Add water as needed, honey, black pepper if desired. Add a bay leaf to the pot. Continue to simmer (about another 10 min.). Remove the bay leaf before you add 1 cup of milk or half and half (add it slowly). Don't bring to a boil after adding the milk, just gently reheat and serve (with croutons!)
Grilled cheese sandwiches
Steamed or roasted vegetables (depends what I find in my fridge!)
I'm so excited to bring you my favorite tips, deals, great things to know and do for your life in Israel or for when you visit Israel! (please note: this blog contains affiliate links)
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Printable Coupon!
Don't forget to check your favorite store's Facebook Page or website and see what printable coupons they have to offer.
(And if you find some good ones, please link to them in the comments section!)
New-Pharm has a couple of coupons for Facebook Fans:
https://www.facebook.com/NewPharm?sk=app_209601355772114
These coupons are for fleece blankets and razors, if you're on the lookout for those items!
Happy saving!
(And if you find some good ones, please link to them in the comments section!)
New-Pharm has a couple of coupons for Facebook Fans:
https://www.facebook.com/NewPharm?sk=app_209601355772114
These coupons are for fleece blankets and razors, if you're on the lookout for those items!
Happy saving!
Monday, November 14, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
I am so burnt-out on so many levels. There has just been a lot going on around here lately, and the to-do list keeps growing, and the to-stress-about list never shrinks! I just wish someone would wave a magic wand and arrange for a TOTAL break from real life, even if just for a day. I guess I mean to say, I NEED to recharge my batteries!
But since that's not happening, and there is a full day of homeschooling 4 kids ahead of me, and tons of laundry to fold, cleaning to do, sorting through I-don't-know-what-all-that-stuff-is that is sitting in piles in various rooms of the house (mostly in the kids' rooms, the master bedroom,and the newly renamed "activity room" - formerly known as the "playroom"), I will have to have a supper plan early in the day.
So here it is:
Garlic Bread & Minestrone Soup
(Can you tell I'm experiencing cooking burn-out, too?)
If anyone is hungry after that, well, they will just have to find SOMETHING on their own!
But since that's not happening, and there is a full day of homeschooling 4 kids ahead of me, and tons of laundry to fold, cleaning to do, sorting through I-don't-know-what-all-that-stuff-is that is sitting in piles in various rooms of the house (mostly in the kids' rooms, the master bedroom,and the newly renamed "activity room" - formerly known as the "playroom"), I will have to have a supper plan early in the day.
So here it is:
Garlic Bread & Minestrone Soup
(Can you tell I'm experiencing cooking burn-out, too?)
If anyone is hungry after that, well, they will just have to find SOMETHING on their own!
Money Saving Tip
Printable Coupon!
This coupon is good at most pharmacies.
Click here for a coupon for 15% of "Rikuzit" or "Rikuzit H" - herbal treatments to assist with focus and attention
Coupon good thru 12.31.2011
This coupon is good at most pharmacies.
Click here for a coupon for 15% of "Rikuzit" or "Rikuzit H" - herbal treatments to assist with focus and attention
Coupon good thru 12.31.2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Tonight's menu:
I was really not in the mood to cook, so here's a quick, boring menu:
Vegetable Soup (leftover from Shabbat)
Pizza Baguettes
French fries
Fruit
What's on your Sunday night menu?
I was really not in the mood to cook, so here's a quick, boring menu:
Vegetable Soup (leftover from Shabbat)
Pizza Baguettes
French fries
Fruit
What's on your Sunday night menu?
Money Saving Tip
I'm back with a money saving tip!
Today through Thursday, you can make free international calls from your home phone line. Yes, you read that right, but there is some fine print:
Make sure the country you want to call is on this list:
US, Britain & Northern Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Holland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco, Malta, Luxemberg, Liechtenstein
Just use the Bezeq Int'l prefix (014) and make sure your call starts after 4 pm and ends by 5 pm, and it's free!
Thanks to No Fryers for publicizing this!
Today through Thursday, you can make free international calls from your home phone line. Yes, you read that right, but there is some fine print:
Make sure the country you want to call is on this list:
US, Britain & Northern Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Holland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco, Malta, Luxemberg, Liechtenstein
Just use the Bezeq Int'l prefix (014) and make sure your call starts after 4 pm and ends by 5 pm, and it's free!
Thanks to No Fryers for publicizing this!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Shabbat Parashat Vayera, Nov. 11-12, 2011
I think it's a little ironic that this is the week I chose for a "no guests" week! We have just been inundated with guests for the last month, and I felt I needed a little break. A chance for a really quiet, no pressure Shabbat.
Just us.
So what's on a "just us" menu?
Challah
Vegetable soup
Whatever already prepared chicken I pull out of the freezer
Carrot Kugel (from the freezer)
Spicy Roast Potatoes
Mushroom-Barley Stew in the crock pot for lunch
Make your own Salad
Fruit, brownies, or whatever my kids bake tomorrow
Pretty simple, no frills. Hopefully we'll have a simple, fun Friday and Shabbat!
What's on your menu? Are you having guests?
Just us.
So what's on a "just us" menu?
Challah
Vegetable soup
Whatever already prepared chicken I pull out of the freezer
Carrot Kugel (from the freezer)
Spicy Roast Potatoes
Mushroom-Barley Stew in the crock pot for lunch
Make your own Salad
Fruit, brownies, or whatever my kids bake tomorrow
Pretty simple, no frills. Hopefully we'll have a simple, fun Friday and Shabbat!
What's on your menu? Are you having guests?
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Wednesday night - November 9, 2011
How about a one pot meal?
Lentil, Rice, and Butternut Squash Stew, served with Pitot on the side.
Here's my stew, but you can change it up and be as creative as you'd like:
Onions, Garlic, Red peppers, Carrots, Potatoes, and Butternut Squash - diced and sauteed in olive oil. Add lentils and rice (sorted and rinsed), vegetable stock and spices to taste (I used salt, pepper, and oregano. I happen to think that oregano complements lentils and rice really well.) The quantities are so arbitrary, depending on the size of your pot. I used a rather large pot for this stew and used 1-2 onions, 2 cloves of garlic, whatever sliced carrots and peppers were in my fridge from earlier in the day, 2 potatoes, 1 butternut squash, 1/3 of bag of rice, and 1/2 a bag of lentils.
Lentil, Rice, and Butternut Squash Stew, served with Pitot on the side.
Here's my stew, but you can change it up and be as creative as you'd like:
Onions, Garlic, Red peppers, Carrots, Potatoes, and Butternut Squash - diced and sauteed in olive oil. Add lentils and rice (sorted and rinsed), vegetable stock and spices to taste (I used salt, pepper, and oregano. I happen to think that oregano complements lentils and rice really well.) The quantities are so arbitrary, depending on the size of your pot. I used a rather large pot for this stew and used 1-2 onions, 2 cloves of garlic, whatever sliced carrots and peppers were in my fridge from earlier in the day, 2 potatoes, 1 butternut squash, 1/3 of bag of rice, and 1/2 a bag of lentils.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Back to Posting Menus! Nov. 8, 2011
I've taken quite a long break from posting, but now I'm trying to get my life back in order, and that includes finding time to plan (and blog about) menus!
This week I'm back to trying to minimize the shopping (but can't pass up Mega's special - 2NIS/kg for avocados, pomelit, and bananas, so I'm going to have to get there tomorrow!)... I peeked into my freezer and realized that there's enough in there to keep us going for a while.
Here are some foods we made this week using the items already in the freezer, fridge, and pantry:
Red Lentil Soup - saute 1 small onion and 1 clove garlic in olive oil. when soft, add water, red lentils (sorted and rinsed), salt and pepper (optional: juice of a lemon. I like it lemony but my finicky family disagrees. You can always add lemon to the bowl!). This soup is my go to soup when we are all cold and I hadn't planned soup, as red lentils cook so quickly it can be ready to serve in about 15 minutes!
Chinese Vegetable Soup - this soup starts the same way most of my soups do: saute onion and garlic in olive oil. (you can also saute fresh sliced ginger with the onion and garlic, if you don't have any, you can use the dried ground version, just add toward the end of the cooking process) when soft, add your choice of vegetables - I used mushrooms, broccoli stalks (peeled and thinly sliced), carrots (scrubbed and thinly sliced), and snow peas (still had some in the freezer from when they were buy 2 get 1 free at Shufersal). You can also use bok choy, celery, and any other vegetables you have around that seem like they'd fit. saute it all. then add soy sauce and rice vinegar. Allow to simmer for 10 min. Add water to desired level. Add pepper (and ginger) to taste. garnish with green onion, if you have some!
Pasta with creamy sauce (I cheated and used up the leftover garlic and dill cream cheese as the basis of this sauce)
Pasta with tomato sauce
Baked Potatoes
Steamed Broccoli
Make your own Salad
Fruit Salad
These foods came together in different combinations to make several nights worth of suppers!
What have you been making?
This week I'm back to trying to minimize the shopping (but can't pass up Mega's special - 2NIS/kg for avocados, pomelit, and bananas, so I'm going to have to get there tomorrow!)... I peeked into my freezer and realized that there's enough in there to keep us going for a while.
Here are some foods we made this week using the items already in the freezer, fridge, and pantry:
Red Lentil Soup - saute 1 small onion and 1 clove garlic in olive oil. when soft, add water, red lentils (sorted and rinsed), salt and pepper (optional: juice of a lemon. I like it lemony but my finicky family disagrees. You can always add lemon to the bowl!). This soup is my go to soup when we are all cold and I hadn't planned soup, as red lentils cook so quickly it can be ready to serve in about 15 minutes!
Chinese Vegetable Soup - this soup starts the same way most of my soups do: saute onion and garlic in olive oil. (you can also saute fresh sliced ginger with the onion and garlic, if you don't have any, you can use the dried ground version, just add toward the end of the cooking process) when soft, add your choice of vegetables - I used mushrooms, broccoli stalks (peeled and thinly sliced), carrots (scrubbed and thinly sliced), and snow peas (still had some in the freezer from when they were buy 2 get 1 free at Shufersal). You can also use bok choy, celery, and any other vegetables you have around that seem like they'd fit. saute it all. then add soy sauce and rice vinegar. Allow to simmer for 10 min. Add water to desired level. Add pepper (and ginger) to taste. garnish with green onion, if you have some!
Pasta with creamy sauce (I cheated and used up the leftover garlic and dill cream cheese as the basis of this sauce)
Pasta with tomato sauce
Baked Potatoes
Steamed Broccoli
Make your own Salad
Fruit Salad
These foods came together in different combinations to make several nights worth of suppers!
What have you been making?
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