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And this is just Shabbos lunch 🙂

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Moroccan Pepper & Tomato Salad

3 red peppers, diced

28 oz. can diced tomatoes

Chopped garlic

Chopped jalapenos

Olive oil

Hot sesame oil, optional

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Sephardi Carrot Salad

Carrots, peeled and sliced

Paprika

Cinnamon

Cayenne

Cumin

Dressing

Lemon juice

Olive oil

Salt

Honey (optional)

Cook carrots and spices in water until carrots are as soft as you like them. Drain the carrots but save the cooking liquid. Mix the dressing ingredients then pour the dressing and some cooking water over the carrots.

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Spicy Eggplant (delicious with gefilte fish!)

Eggplant, washed well (unpeeled) and cut into chunks

Several hot cherry peppers, seeded and chopped finely

15 oz. can tomato sauce

Chili powder

Cook over a very low flame until soft (an hour? more?). Fight the urge to add water! The eggplant will release liquid as it cooks.

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Provencal Eggplant Salad (Based on a recipe from Healthy Cooking for the Jewish Home, Faye Levy)

Chopped garlic

Olives

Capers

Lemon juice

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Wheat Berry Salad

Wheat berries

Craisins

Dressing

Orange juice

Olive oil

Salt

Pepper

Mix the dressing then pour over the wheat berries and craisins.

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Quinoa with spinach

Quinoa

Frozen chopped spinach, thawed

Cook quinoa in salted water, according to package directions. Add spinach while the quinoa is still hot. Optionally, you may dress with an olive oil and lemon juice vinaigrette.

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Chickpea Salad

Can chickpeas, rinsed & drained

Olives stuffed w/ pimentos, cut in half

Red pepper strips, chopped (optional)

Dressing

Lemon juice

Olive oil

Chopped garlic

Salt

Pepper

Combine dressing ingredients; pour over chickpeas, olives and red peppers.

(This recipe is based on a Ronzoni pasta salad recipe but I always have way too many starches for Shabbos lunch and this is delicious on its own.)

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Potato Salad

Potatoes, peeled, diced, cooked in salted water until tender but not mushy

Dressing

Mayonnaise

Salt

Pepper (white is nice)

Lemon juice

Optional:

Hard boiled egg, still hot from cooking

Sugar

Stir mayonnaise (this step will help ensure a smooth dressing), stir in salt & pepper, add lemon juice and stir until smooth. If you are using light mayo you may need to add a little water because it is thick.

Optional: mash egg very finely, stir in a little sugar, add to dressing. This will make the dressing rich & delicious!

Gently toss potatoes in dressing.

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Red Cabbage Salad

1 bag red cabbage

Salt

Sesame seeds

Slivered or sliced almonds

Dressing

Vinegar (I use brown rice vinegar in this recipe but any will do)

Olive oil

Honey

Plenty of black pepper

Toss cabbage with salt.

CAREFULLY toast sesame seeds and almonds in the oven. Bake them in separate pans so you can remove each as it is ready.

Mix dressing then pour over cabbage, sesame seeds & almonds.

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Creole Slaw

1 bag green cabbage

1 jar marinated artichokes

1 jar sliced olives

Dressing

Vinegar

Olive oil

Spicy brown mustard

Sugar (optional)

Pepper

Mix cabbage, artichokes (break up chunks) and olives. Mix dressing ingredients and pour over vegetables.

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Avocado and Hearts of Palm

Avocado

Lemon juice

Canned sliced hearts of palm, drained

Chopped garlic

Olive oil

Salt

Pepper

Dice avocado and toss with lemon juice to prevent browning. Add hearts of palm. Make dressing of remaining ingredients and gently fold into avocado and hearts of palm.

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Macaroni Salad

Cooked elbows, shells, spirals or similar pasta

Red pepper, very finely chopped

Pickles, very finely chopped

Dressing

Mayonnaise

Italian dressing

Mix mayonnaise and Italian dressing then mix with other ingredients.

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Farfale with Chestnuts

Cooked farfale (large bowties)

Bag of chestnuts, roughly chopped

Dressing

Mayonnaise

Pasta cooking water

Salt

Pepper

Thin mayo slightly with a bit of cooking water (or plain water), add salt and pepper and mix with pasta and chestnuts.

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Orzo Salad

Cooked orzo (rice-shaped pasta)

Dressing

Lemon juice

Lime juice

Olive oil

Salt

Pepper

Mix dressing then toss with orzo and drained dried fruit.

LAer’s *There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can’t

reminded me of this one:

There are 10 kinds of people – those who know binary and those who don’t.

am also lax about the laws of tznius. That was a completely inappropriate statement to make and I would hope you see fit to apologize.

The Torah was not given to malachim. It is for us, to LIVE with.

I’ve been behind the scenes at hotels on Pesach and I’ve seen “issues” with kashrus. On the other hand, that’s life. Unless you shecht and kasher your own chickens and meat, milk your cows and grow your own produce, (and even then!), there are going to be problems … We try to minimize them, but life happens. Someone who is observing kashrus because it’s his job (whether just for the week or year round) won’t be as careful as someone to whom kashrus is an inherent value, and this is a problem at all levels of food production – from manufacturing to your local pizza parlor.

And I realize that I neglected to respond to your prior posts.

Of course I got rip-roaring drunk, but I made sure not to start drinking until after removing my tallis and tefillin.

Postsemgirl – how much room does your extended family have 🙂

We stay home – I would rather cook than pack! And we happen not to have tens of thousand of dollars to spare …

Oomis – refuah shelaima!!!

We’re having lots of food that not everyone eats. I think franks in blanks will be the one universal!

Chicken soup (homemade) with kreplach (store-bought)

Stuffed cabbage (store-bought)

Stovetop grill pan grilled chicken cutlets

I have a couple of desserts in the freezer … we made the ice cream cookie sandwich recipe from Kosher by Design Kids in the Kitchen and I have a DELICIOUS parve cheesecake brownie recipe I had gotten from a food newsgroup.

Not having anything even appropriate enough to wear next time I meet the Queen of England, I guess I should stop davening because the King certainly outranks the Queen …

Certain Israeli (or American) “chareidi” rabbonim want girls to keep their hair short or tied back, good for them. That does not make it halachically required for anyone other than the followers of those rabbonim, if even that. The attitude expressed by certain posters is what turns Jews off the derech. First, you state that minority halachic opinions are absolute requirements, then you denigrate those who chose not to keep those minority opinions. There are plenty of DECENT girls with long, unbraided/pony-tailed hair.

ujm – let me tell what I think of the Torah: I think Hashem gave us an incredible blueprint for life, but even something that perfect is not immune to being hijacked by the Taliban.

That’s a beautiful idea! I’ll IY”H say 120-134.