Rosh Hashana food

[cellio]

Friday we're having guests and eating:

• apples and honey (I have four varieties of apples, so everyone will get an assortment of slices)
  
• challah
  
• gefilte fish with carrots
  
• roasted chicken with oregano, rosemary, sage, and garlic
  
• acorn squash (baked, with either margarine or raisins and honey)
  
• coleslaw
  
• dessert (brought by guests)

Saturday lunch it's just us:

• apples, honey, challah
  
• chicken with apricot sauce
  
• pasta salad with vegetables
  
• coleslaw
  
• whatever dessert is left over from Friday

Saturday night is out. Sunday we're having guests who don't eat meat (but do eat fish):

• apples, honey, challah
  
• papaya (my usual "new fruit" is starfruit, but the store didn't have any)
  
• baked orange roughy (not sure exactly what I'm doing to it yet -- maybe with sliced tomatos and herbs, or maybe cooked in orange juice)
  
• acorn squash
  
• steamed broccoli florets
  
• cake, cookies

(I wanted soup with this meal, but the store didn't have any parve soups pre-made and I didn't have time to make something.)

Comments

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Sounds good.

I'd have suggested a quick yellow lentil soup made with olive oil, onions (you sweat them for flavor), and a little salt and pepper and a bay leaf. This is a quickie I learned from a Lebanese grocer years ago.

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Another soup recipe: 1 lb split peas, 1 diced onion, 2 stalks diced celery, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp pepper. Dump it all in a pot, add 2-3 quarts of water, bring to a boil, turn heat down and simmer, stirring occasionally, till all is mush; add salt to taste when serving. I hesitate to call it a quickie recipe since it does require at least a couple of hours, but it is so easy. And it tastes fantastic.

Sweat them?

[rob-of-unspace.livejournal.com]

I'd like to try this recipe (although probably with orange lentils). What does it mean to "sweat the onions"? I've never heard of that before.

[cellio]

Thanks for the tip! I might yet be able to pull that off.

(Sweat?)

[zare-k.livejournal.com]

The apple and honey combination sounds absolutely delicious right now. May have to make something like that this weekend.

What do you put in the apricot sauce for the chicken?

Re: Sweat them?

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Yellow lentils = orange lentils.

To "sweat" them means you cook them in a fat on low heat until they get translucent but not brown.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

To sweat vegetables is to cook them over gentle heat (usually low or medium-low) with a small
amount of fat, often in a covered pot. With sweating, vegetables release moisture and flavor and soften without
browning.

Re: Sweat them?

[rob-of-unspace.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This might be dinner tonight!

[cellio]

I bought this particular apricot chicken from the hot-foods section at kosher mart, so I don't know. In the past, though, I've had good luck with using preserves as a glaze -- slather chicken with preserves, bake at high heat (425 or 450) until meat thermometer says done. (I don't think I've done this with apricot yet, but it's worked well with peach preserves and orange marmalade.)

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful! L'shanah tovah!

Did you get my e-mail, by the way?

[kerryp.livejournal.com]

Hello and L'shana tovah

You don't know me, but I enjoy reading your blog (we have interests in common) and so I linked you to my friends list.

About a pareve soup - as an old standby, the Manishewitz Matzo Ball and Soup Mix is Pareve and easy. To jazz it up, I just throw in some cut carrots, onion and celery while the water is boiling, prior to adding the matzoh balls. In my family, matzo ball soup is served at all holidays and simchas. "It isn't just for Passover, anymore".

Good luck. I, however, am looking forward to trying the lentil soup recipe that figmo suggested.

Happy and Healthy to all . . .

[cellio]

Got your email; will reply after Rosh Hashana -- sorry for the delay! (The answer is "yes", which leaves specifics to work out.)

[cellio]

L'shana tova, and welcome to my journal.

"It isn't just for Passover, anymore".

Good point -- thanks!