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I lived in Israel for four years. I have been back to visit three times. I am looking forward to going again.
Yes, you can make it without nuts.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/3 cup butter or margarine
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
Measure 1 cup sifted flour. Add baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Sift again. Add 1/2 cup chopped nuts. Mix well and set aside.
Melt 1/3 cup butter. Add 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar and mix well. If shortening is used, add 1 tablespoon hot water. Cool slightly.
Add egg (beaten) and vanilla. Blend well. Add flour mixture, a little at a time, mixing well.
Spread in 9 x 9 x 2 inch pan. Sprinkle 1/2 to 1 cup chocolate chips on top. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
eyes open…can your recipe be made in advance and frozen?
I disagree with will hill, and I totally agree with SJSinNYC.
I disagree, please post your source.
Will Hill- I respectfully disagree with giving tochacha about tznius to these women. Devorah K. writes “Their clothing is designed to make an impression and they sit in the most provocative of ways. Their conversations range from the mundane to the profane.” We don’t know that their clothing is not tznius, just that it’s out to make an impression. I do agree that they can be told in a nice way that the food isn’t kosher, like “excuse me, but is the food here kosher? I don’t see any certicate, I was told it wasn’t, etc.”
Only a close friend can tell you about tznius things, not a total stranger. For example, I used to wear slits in my skirts, below the knee, until a very close friend of mine taught me that it is very attention grabbing (peek a boo effect) to wear them. my friend even bought me a sefer about tznius (an expensive one at that). That was the only way I could accept this mussar, when it was given from a friend and with total love and caring.
as I posted above, I think that these ladies don’t know that it is not kosher. Why would they go there and not the many other restaurants all over Rockland that are kosher?
I mentioned this story to my family and my daughter said that there are starbucks in brooklyn that are kosher (can even get CY milk upon request), I don’t know this for a fact but perhaps these women think the starbucks here is kosher as well. Then it would be a mitzvah to tell these ladies that the Starbucks has no hechsher (of course in a nice way)and if they continue eating you have done your job.
Just to add on, if you are at the mall and want to get Haagen Daas icecream from the vendors, or any other snack, it is important to look at their certificate of kashrus to see what exactly is kosher and what is not.
There was a very interesting article in the Bina Magazine this week, about this girl who wasn’t thin and she wasn’t getting shidduchim so she started to diet and became a size 2 and then she got engaged and married but she was so obsessed with the dieting that she was almost anorexic and she wasn’t getting pregnant and the doc told her to gain weight. I think it was a wake up call to the mothers of the boys who want a thin girl for their sons.
Devorah…can you please tell us which starbucks you are referring to, as there are several in Rockland County. Maybe they have one with some kosher food?
On the other hand, maybe they brought food from home and just bought some coffee there?
how sad! Give them a gift certificate to Purple Pear! Devorah, seriously, why don’t you use the computer at the library or something so you don’t have to watch the “excitement” at Starbucks.
I think twelve cups of coffee is way too much. I was told two cups is okay.
Squeak, can you explain what simple brew is please?
As the mother of three daughters who are all driving, I share your concern about teen driving. But over here where I live in the suburbs driving is a necessity for them to get to college. Plus, when they get married they won’t have to learn how to drive when it’s harder cause there are young kids at home. I say let them learn how to drive (and PRAY). Also important is for them to take this special drivers ed course to educate them, and lots of lessons on the road and on the high way with a good driving teacher.
I am off coffee since the sunday before yom kippur.
“political issue”, don’t you mean “a power struggle”? must be because of the election coming up….
But I totally agree with you, chalish
Important to be calm/chilled about food with kids. forcing them to eat something won’t be good, but you can have the good foods like cut up fruit and veggies available. Cereal and milk is probably better than fast food, french fries and pizza, but I still think it is a good idea for a kid to get used to and eventually enjoy fruit and veggies, that way they will eat it as an adult.
At 12 years old a boy is usually not available to help cook the dinner of his choosings. Perhaps he can make a list of his favorate suppers? Although he is not eating chocolate and candy, I still think that cereal is not doing the job nutritionally, as you are missing out on the protien and veggies. My nephew is around this age and is a little finicky about food.
We have a hashkoma minyan so some people daven at Hashkoma and then come back for some hakafos and then go home. it is terrible when there is fighting in shul.
I use earth balance maragarine all the time. No transfat at all.
popa_bar_abba,
A young lady should not make it a priority to be THIN. She should make it a priority to eat well and exercise and be besimcha with herself because she feels SHE is worth it!!! I see plenty of skinny girls who are not finding their shidduch so easily either. Some men like a more full figured girl, they don’t want to give a hug to a bag of bones. Uch. Thank G-d my husband finds skinny women very unattractive.
I understand it is important to check the shidduch out, but sometimes it gets to be too much, and people who dig too deep discourage me from trying to make shidduchim for their children. no wonder their kids are getting older and still not getting married.
KRUNCH, I also long for the days of my youth, when I was first becoming frum and everything was so special, and I did mitzvos and davened with geshmack. Now here I am, thirty years later, dreading eating in a freezing sukah,and UGH,I have to fast!!! now how low is that? I long for the times when I didn’t have to face the yeshivos and principals, when I had respect and trust for any yeshivish or frum person, I long for those days when I was so innocent and trusting, before I got so burned out by so called frum people. This is how life is, and that is how Hashem wants us to grow, it was just so much easier then!
My children used to insist on bringing along food and water for the chickens when we went to do kapporos. Then they refused to go. I have seen children chase and abuse kittens and dogs, my daughter once saved a kitten from being attacked by a crowd of boys.
My husband just does it for us with money. The only way I could do it is if I raise my own chickens and bring them to the shochet. Just chickens are so noisy and MESSY.
I agree with you. This mass marketing of capporos chickens should be abolished.
I don’t see what the problem would be with timed release nutrition if taken before yom kippur. After all, when we eat seudah mafsekes, the food we eat takes several hours to digest. So what really is the difference?