dinner last night
Jun. 29th, 2003 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioWe ended up with a small group for the NetBill dinner last night. (NetBill was a past job, and most of us were/are friends.) One person ended up not being able to come at the last minute, and all the SOs turned out to be unavailable, so it was just four of us. It was a fun gathering, though, and people stayed until sometime after 1am.
Because the dinner started before Shabbat ended, I did a combination of pre-cooking and using the crock pot on a timer. Since Dani was away at a convention, I didn't need to use the crock pot for lunch. (I just ate cold foods instead.) I adapted a recipe I've previously made in the oven for the crock pot and it came out well.
What I did:
Brown chicken breasts in a skillet in hot oil. Put them in the crock pot, and in the same oil cook chopped onions for a couple minutes (cooked but not thoroughly limp). Throw those into the crock pot, along with diced apples, raisins that have been soaked in water, curry powder, a little honey, and white wine. Cook.
(I did all of this Thursday night, including cooking the pot for a couple hours on high to make sure the meat wasn't raw. Friday I set the crock pot on a timer on low and put the pot back in on Saturday around noon for a 7:30 dinner.)
Proportions: 8 chicken breasts, 4 small white onions, 4 small apples, about 0.5C raisins, about 2T honey, about 1T curry, about 2C wine. This was more liquid than was actually necessary, but that's hard to judge with crock pots sometimes, especially when they're full as this one was. I think I would have preferred a little more of both apples and onions, but the pot was full. If I made this with 4-6 pieces of chicken I'd probably keep the amounts of everything else (except wine) the same. I deliberately kept the curry level mild; this was not hot and zippy but was quite tasty. (I also didn't use one of the hotter curries.)
Because the dinner started before Shabbat ended, I did a combination of pre-cooking and using the crock pot on a timer. Since Dani was away at a convention, I didn't need to use the crock pot for lunch. (I just ate cold foods instead.) I adapted a recipe I've previously made in the oven for the crock pot and it came out well.
What I did:
Brown chicken breasts in a skillet in hot oil. Put them in the crock pot, and in the same oil cook chopped onions for a couple minutes (cooked but not thoroughly limp). Throw those into the crock pot, along with diced apples, raisins that have been soaked in water, curry powder, a little honey, and white wine. Cook.
(I did all of this Thursday night, including cooking the pot for a couple hours on high to make sure the meat wasn't raw. Friday I set the crock pot on a timer on low and put the pot back in on Saturday around noon for a 7:30 dinner.)
Proportions: 8 chicken breasts, 4 small white onions, 4 small apples, about 0.5C raisins, about 2T honey, about 1T curry, about 2C wine. This was more liquid than was actually necessary, but that's hard to judge with crock pots sometimes, especially when they're full as this one was. I think I would have preferred a little more of both apples and onions, but the pot was full. If I made this with 4-6 pieces of chicken I'd probably keep the amounts of everything else (except wine) the same. I deliberately kept the curry level mild; this was not hot and zippy but was quite tasty. (I also didn't use one of the hotter curries.)
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Date: 2003-07-03 12:50 pm (UTC)I've been working out how I observe Shabbat for the last 11 or so years. My current practice is not to use Electricity, unless I really, really want to. Basically I think that it's halachically permissable, but I try not to use it if at all possible as a personal stringency.
I think I don't have a good handle on "shabbosdig". I mean, to be properly shabbosdik we wouldn't touch secular matters at all -- we'd pray, eat, study torah, sing (Jewish) songs, perhaps nap, but we wouldn't read a novel, play games, ask the kids what they've learned in (secular) school, etc.
You forgot sex. That's a traditional shabbat activity. :-) I enjoy taking relaxed walks on Shabbat -- It's been a few weeks since Joy and I have gone to Central Park (we almost did last weekend, but napping won out), but that's a really nice thing to do on Shabbat.
But I have no problem reading novels or reading the newspaper on Shabbat. I try not to obsess about work on Shabbat, but I might talk a bit about it...
At one point, I had an exception for Star Trek: not only would I watch it on Shabbat, but I'd even turn it on. Of course, with the current Trek series, I wouldn't even dream of it. :-)
It's also a lot easier dealing with the long summer shabbatot when you've got friends who you can go and visit with until 5, leaving a mere 4 hours for napping and other activities.
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Date: 2003-07-03 02:13 pm (UTC)Omitted, rather than forgot. :-)
But I have no problem reading novels or reading the newspaper on Shabbat. I try not to obsess about work on Shabbat, but I might talk a bit about it...
Same here -- but if reading a novel is considered shabbosdik and watching a movie on TV is not, then I do not grasp the difference. So, in a halachic system that permits electricity, either "not shabbosdik" isn't the argument against the movie, or there's a subtlety that's beyond me. If the latter, I am forced to wonder what other activities that I think are ok aren't by this logic.
I got a giggle out of your Star Trek exemption. Did it apply to Babylon 5? New episodes but not reruns? :-)
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Date: 2003-07-04 06:07 am (UTC)Well, I didn't grow up in this tradition either, so I'm not sure. Maybe because TV is more public, or less quiet? Maybe it's an analogy to movies? I remember some people in college who wouldn't go to movies on Friday night, even though it was possible to pre-pay, on the theory that if the projector broke they might be tempted to fix it. (I responded to this by thinking that since I normally don't do that, it wouldn't be an issue, but I ended up not seeing movies on Friday night more because I never remembered to pre-pay and had other things to do.)
I got a giggle out of your Star Trek exemption.
good!
Did it apply to Babylon 5? New episodes but not reruns? :-)
Hmm... I don't remember what day of the week B5 was on. I started watching B5 in '96, by which point I was a bit stricter... I think that new episodes of B5 are definitely in a different category than reruns, or even tapes/DVDs.