Planning: R”H meals

[magid]

Right now, it looks like there will be people over for the first two dinners, I’m out for the first two lunches, and I’m alone for Shabbat. I haven’t quite broken food down into which things at which meals, but I think these are the things I’ll be making/serving.

challah
apples and honey
turkey with wild rice stuffing
pomegranate chicken
chickpeas and spinach in a red sauce with preserved lemon (vegan main course, if needed)
green salad
tomato salad
roasted veggies of some sort, likely more than one kind
sliced beets
vegan chocolate cake
an apple dessert
(after the turkey has had its initial serving, transmogrify some leftovers into turkey soup)
Possibles: hummus, gefilte fish, other fish.

I can make the challah dough tomorrow morning and bake it after work. Also up for tomorrow night: getting more produce; roasting vegetables; making the chickpeas; making the wild rice and assembling the stuffing; making both or either dessert.

If I don’t go on Tuesday, early Wednesday morning, I’m going in to Brookline to get a turkey, then cooking it on time-bake while I work. When I come home (after getting the farm share), the pomegranate chicken goes in, and it should be ready before I have to leave for shul. I’d also like to get a pot ready for the soup, with the veggies all ready dealt with.

Last minute items: assemble salads, slice up apples.

Constraints: time (to cook) and space (the fridge holds only so much). The biggest space issue is the turkey, I think. So in some ways it’s preferable to get it on Wednesday, so I don’t have to fit it whole into the fridge. But if I get it tomorrow, there’s comfort in knowing it’s been bought already....

I’m still debating leaving the oven on, to heat things on yom tov. I also have an electric burner on a timer (since my wonderful gas stove doesn’t have a pilot light, and I’m too nervous leaving the live flames on the whole time.

edit, 0700, 9/14/04
I think I'll have to double some quantities... I think I have another meal to make and deliver on yom tov....

Comments

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

You just gave me a great idea -- I had planned to stuff my R"H turkey with mushrooms and onions, but now I think I'll add rice to the mix as well ...

[magid.livejournal.com]

Glad to help :-)

I usually make a bread stuffing, but that would mean a second batch of bread, and a lot of people I know are trying to minimize carbs, so wild rice is a bit easier. I would usually put pine nuts or almonds in, but. So, yeah, mushrooms and onions. What else are you putting in?

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

I think just mushrooms (chopped portobello) and onions (and salt), maybe with a bit of chicken bouillon. This is the filling I like to use in stuffed grape leaves, and it's usually good enough that I'm willing to eat it alone. With the turkey drippings it should be even better.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you have any empty seats left? :]

[magid.livejournal.com]

Possibly; it depends on whether I actually make the food that I've planned. Send me an email? (Tonight is the pareve stuff night, so I'll have a much better idea later today.)