Rosh Hashana, meals edition
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magidWelcome back to the food channel...
I'm invited out to dinner first night (though I need to ping someone about when I'm expected where); unclear whether I should bring something or not, especially since some of the others are oenophiles, and I am not that nuanced.
I'm hosting first lunch. We're eight, and these are the constraints: no eggplant, minimal gluten (read: gluten for motzi purposes only), reasonably accessible for somewhat unpredictable kid palates.
The menu:
The cooked foods are either in the oven or done. I'll make the salad at the last minute. If I suddenly feel like I need another vegetable, I can always add red sauerkraut. The rest of what needs to happen is straightening and organizing so my house is less of a mess. Oh, and I suppose I should've tried to avoid nuts, as per some people's minhag (also pickles, I think), but I just didn't want to figure out something else. I did make a point of having carrots, and putting extra thyme on the peppers (English puns count as well as Hebrew ones, right?).
Second dinner is currently solo.
And I just got an invitation to second lunch across the river; hopefully that will work :-)
I'm invited out to dinner first night (though I need to ping someone about when I'm expected where); unclear whether I should bring something or not, especially since some of the others are oenophiles, and I am not that nuanced.
I'm hosting first lunch. We're eight, and these are the constraints: no eggplant, minimal gluten (read: gluten for motzi purposes only), reasonably accessible for somewhat unpredictable kid palates.
The menu:
- wine/grape juice, challah (which will be When Pigs Fly bread, since I like it so much, and I just wasn't up for making bread this week)
- apples and honey (both local, the former picked by me!)
- hummus, pickles, and olives
- chicken baked with rice (in an attempt to be sorta kinda Persian-ish, I put a layer of thin slices of potato on the bottom (a la Persian rice with potatoes), and added carrots and garlic to the rice (a la shahee polo); the idea is that the potatoes will get crisp when I warm this on Shabbat. Hopefully.)
- "baby" artichokes, likely with something like zaatar as a dipping sauce
- roasted sweet potato with onions, cayenne and cumin
- roasted red peppers with onion and thyme
- green salad (current plan: mesclun, red leaf lettuce, yellow tomatoes, radishes, and a balsamic vinaigrette)
- honeydew melon
- baked apple dessert (one involving apples, honey (this one from Land's Sake), lemon juice and zest, bits of marzipan, and cinnamony sweetened rice-flour crumb topping; the other using everything but the honey and lemon juice; totally experimental, but hopefully at least acceptable)
- tea, perhaps liqueurs
The cooked foods are either in the oven or done. I'll make the salad at the last minute. If I suddenly feel like I need another vegetable, I can always add red sauerkraut. The rest of what needs to happen is straightening and organizing so my house is less of a mess. Oh, and I suppose I should've tried to avoid nuts, as per some people's minhag (also pickles, I think), but I just didn't want to figure out something else. I did make a point of having carrots, and putting extra thyme on the peppers (English puns count as well as Hebrew ones, right?).
Second dinner is currently solo.
And I just got an invitation to second lunch across the river; hopefully that will work :-)