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| zuncompany | Jul 11 2010, 12:38 PM Post #1 |
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Whats everyone cooking? |
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| npl | Jul 11 2010, 01:59 PM Post #2 |
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Really not sure - probably lots of short-orders. B"H, this year the only person on a medically-limited diet is me, so everyone else can eat milchigs together, which really simplifies meal preps. I guess I'll see if I can find a fish dish that everyone will eat - probably do a fish-potato pie, and see if I can make tuna patties in the toaster oven. Then there's frozen pizza, noodles and tomato sauce with grated cheese, salads, eggs, etc. The kids might kvetch, but I'll use it to remind them about the meaning of the 9 days, and there's always cereal! |
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| rikal | Jul 11 2010, 02:57 PM Post #3 |
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I'll be gone most of the week at the annual 3 days of learning at Or Chaya. Left the gang fish patties, good goat cheese, tuna and egg salad ready in the fridge. There are also plenty of salad veg. Tonight for RC I made sliced dark spicy bread (katzach) with garlic butter, tomato, onion, cucumber, sprouts, zatar and very rich goat cheese (think Philly in goat), pickles on the side. Was well received by all. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 11 2010, 07:05 PM Post #4 |
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We are basically vegetarian here (only eat chicken on Shabbat, can't really get red meat and don't eat it anyway) so it's not such a big deal for us. Quiche is nice, a good bruschetta with fresh tomatoes and fresh mozzarella, eggplant parm if you want something richer. We don't really love lasagna or big pasta dishes but a good Israeli style 'tapas' is nice -- tabbouli, baba, humus, pita, etc. Vegetarian caesar salad (or with anchovies if you like them), rice and beans (either cold like a salad or warm). My favorite easy crockpot veg meals include 4-bean chili (to which I add a can of vegetarian refried beans, which add a nice thicker consistency) served with shredded lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese, sour cream, guac or diced avocadoes, diced tomatoes, and/or anything else you like on your chili. You can also do the same idea but with taco seasoning instead of chili seasoning, and serve it with the hard corn taco shells. Or the same idea rolled up on flour tortillas and baked, then you have enchiladas/burritos. You get the idea. Just got a great new Vegetarian Times magazine which has some very nice hot-weather recipes. Also, if you do portobello mushrooms you can do 'burgers' and even grill them, then serve them on buns with hamburger fixings. They are very meaty in texture. You can do the same with veggie burgers (easy to make homemade with whatever you like; the new Veg Times had the great idea of using a little bit of overcooked pasta as a binder -- blend it with the beans, then add the veggies you like, then grill or sautee). Veggie stir fry is good; use a little scrambled egg for protein or tofu if you like that (can be marinated to taste like 'chicken'). Homemade pizzas are good too...if you want to do 'personal pizzas' and get the kids involved, use nice big lavash or pita rounds and let them decorate how they like. Those cook up quickly and no worries about making dough. |
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| zuncompany | Jul 11 2010, 07:52 PM Post #5 |
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Oh Nick, I am good :) So far I have planned pizza one night- frozen one night homemade pizza with choose your own toppings veg. lasagna with some gimmie lean fake sausage (the kids love this) waffles and fake sausage patties. We are going to put up homemade apricot jam tomorrow from the apricots we picked at the farm today. Tonight after they go down for bed I will put up fresh bagels for lunches and we will have the apricot jam to spread on them. I have blackberries too so if I can convince dh to let me make them into jam we will have fresh blackberry jam. toffu nuggets with homemade pareve mac and cheese We are going into the fast with pareve chili with toffui and gimmelean sausage in it over noddles as well as breaking the fast. This is dh's request. I did this the last year and it was the easiest fast he has ever had. I also got dh and myself some falafel to have for lunches since he will be home most of the week since Frei and Mo are getting ear tubes this week and Mo is getting scoped. I also picked up some eggplant to make pareve eggplant parm. Edited by zuncompany, Jul 11 2010, 07:53 PM.
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| ebpeuka | Jul 12 2010, 08:44 AM Post #6 |
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aishes chayil
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Wow, you are so organized and have such a nice repertoire. It has become really hot here and I am so not in the mood of cooking. I am thinking of tuna patties today, with macaroni and spinach. Then in the course of the week, pizza, lasagne, fried flounder fillets, Hungarian cheese balls and cheese noodle kugel. I would love to make gazpacho. It would be so perfect for the weather. But the only one who would eat it would be me. I was also going to make cheese blintzes, but dh broke it to me yesterday that he doesn't like them at all. Anybody have a nice fruit soup recipe? |
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| Marion | Jul 12 2010, 10:17 AM Post #7 |
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I'm not. It's wasted effort on my family (who, as we speak, are throwing toys instead of eating what I DID cook), so DH can fend for himself, DS#1 and I eat reasonably well at lunch, and DS#2 gets a full [fleishig] meal at daycare at noon and doesn't need more than a snack. I've had it. |
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| npl | Jul 12 2010, 01:54 PM Post #8 |
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Marion - I sympathise! Even when I cook a regular dinner, I'll find that some aren't hungry, some object to an ingredient they don't like, etc. This week, we'll do a lot of "making do", and if they eat sandwiches twice a day, I really don't think it's the end of the world - maybe it will help them to feel the tzara of the 9 days? I'm definitely not planning any meals that require more advanced planning or complicated cooking. I'm happy to take requests from the kids, if they can all agree on something, but if not it will be quick-and-easy, pick-n-mix meals (eg pot of pasta, choose if you want sauce, beans, cheese, etc, veggie sticks on the side, fruit for dessert). |
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| realeez | Jul 12 2010, 01:58 PM Post #9 |
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In general, we eat mainly fish/pareve/dairy during the week so it's not usually too different during the 9 days. Lately, though, we had been eating more chicken due to my diet but I will have to figure things out differently. My kids are picky eaters and usually end up eating mac n cheese, eggs, that type of thing. |
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| zuncompany | Jul 12 2010, 04:08 PM Post #10 |
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My kids know if they don't eat what I serve than they can make themselves a bowl cereal or go to bed hungry. However, they can't have cereal until they have tried the food I have made (generally- the number of bites they must try is equal to how old they are). My kids are a lot less picky once I started this! Tev will just sit there and go hungry but we found by teasing him to stop smiling cause he is not allowed and don't you dare eat dinner works like a charm for him and he ends up eating mult. servings. Once he starts in, Zu wants in the fun. Freida on the other hands ends up in tears begging to be allowed- LOL We do eat fleish most nights. We only very recently got many beans back and Mo is not yet cleared (we were going to trial for the 9 days but he is having tubes and a number of GI tests done Wednesday so they asked us to wait until after this). We still can't do egg, nuts, or fish. We really avoid dairy in the house 99% cause Freida is so incredibly sensitive- she is ana. by contact and to very very very minute amounts. Have to think outside the box more. I was going to do quinoa stuffed peppers but my peppers aren't ready to be picked. If I get enough zucchini I will do quinoa stuffed zucchini one night instead of pizza. |
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| rikal | Jul 13 2010, 12:14 PM Post #11 |
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That home is NOT a restaurant is something I made clear early. That said, I know what my kids like and don't and I don't make meals that I know that someone who is home won't eat. I learned that if there is no or little accommodation then picky becomes less of a pay off. I don't ever make a kid eat anything but there is no guarantee you will get anything until the next meal. They all lived to be big strong (mostly) boys. Now that they are olser they tell me that they feel like x and if I can I'll make it. I let them cook for themselves now or they'll go out and buy shwarma or something if they don't like. Fir the 9 days its good they love soy shnitzel or baked potato in the microwave. Cereal is not here because we don't consider it food except a good granola. Of course they don't like it. |
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| zuncompany | Jul 13 2010, 12:35 PM Post #12 |
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Ah, my kids will take a good granola any day. |
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| npl | Jul 13 2010, 01:36 PM Post #13 |
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Oops - I seem to have inadvertently opened a can of worms! I don't cook separate meals for each member of the family. I make something that theoretically everyone can eat some of. So, I keep the pasta plain, and there are toppings/sauce available for whoever wants. Salad vegetables are available separately, rather than all mixed up with dressing on, etc. I don't cook, for example, eggs for one, pasta for another, and pizza for the third. And, whatever is served is what there is. You can choose to eat only pasta, but there's no complaining. And, if you don't eat much and are hungry half an hour later, it's too bad. The boys know that supper is the last food on offer before bedtime, although dd stays up much later and is welcome to take a healthy snack later in the evening (last night she hate a bowl of oatmeal before bed). I do try to vary the offerings, so that we don't davka make something that one kid dislikes every night. But, on the other hand, if the meat sauce (not 9 days) has a vegetable that one kid dislikes, they may pick out the vegetable but should eat the rest of the meat sauce. And if I make a frozen veg that I know one kid really doesn't eat, I'll make sure there is a second that is at least tolerated. This system worked for us even when some of the kids were incredibly limited by allergies, so that we could all sit down as a family to one meal. It also reduces the possibility that mealtime can become a battleground and keeps the focus on coming together as a family and on learning to make healthy food choices. If I wasn't so limited in my diet for the baby and because of my allergies, I would definitely eat the same meal as everyone else, but instead I'm eating separately, and at a different time, which also fits in better with the rest of the family schedule. I know this is just a short phase we are going through. |
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| zuncompany | Jul 13 2010, 03:29 PM Post #14 |
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npl- I actually eat separate for the same reason. |
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| U Tarzan Me Jane | Jul 13 2010, 05:38 PM Post #15 |
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I. Really. Hate. The. Nine. Days. |
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