I made this today because we needed something sweet and we had the ingredients. It's from a passover recipe book. It comes out kind of like a lemon meringue pie but not. I could have done without the bananas but other folks liked them. It's called a fruit meringue pudding.
Separate 3 eggs. Peel and grate 5 apples. Grate the zest of one lemon and juice the lemon. Beat the egg yolks with 1/2 cup sugar until light colored. Add the lemon stuff and the apples. Add 1/2 cup matzo meal. Mix it well. Put in a greased pan and bake 40 minutes at 350 F.
Meanwhile, beat the egg whites till stiff and beat in 1/4 cup sugar by tablespoonfuls. Slice 2 bananas. When the oven mixture is done, take it out and arrange the banana slices on top. Then put the egg whites on top of that. Bake again at 300 F for about 15 minutes until browned on top. I think it would be best served hot but we served it a few hours later and folks ate it up.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Last minute Pesach recipes by popular demand!
Matzo balls: (Family recipe from my mother’s grandmother, Netta Jacobs, not like you are used to, everyone loves them)
2 matzos
3 oz margarine (melted), chicken fat or olive oil, or skip it, plus other oil/marg/fat for frying
2 eggs
2 small or one large onion, chopped small
parsley – about 1/8 cup
salt and pepper
nutmeg
matzo meal
Brown onions in oil or fat. I salt the onions, it helps them cook, then I don’t add other salt.
Soak matzot in water until soft. Squeeze very dry (easiest to do in a colander), fluff with fork
Add brown onions, margarine, beaten eggs and spices.
Add matzo meal to bind – the trick to keep them light is to add the minimum.
Roll on a plate of matzo meal into small balls – to keep them light, handle them as little as possible.
Make a pot of boiling salted water and cook 20 minutes in this – then add them to the soup.
They will be tastier if you cook them 30 minutes in soup, but you will lose some of your soup since they soak it up.
The challenge with these matzo balls is that the lighter you make them, the more likely they are to fall apart. Every time they come out a little different but they are always very tasty!
Anchovy Eggs – another recipe from Mom’s family – we love these and eat them instead of eggs in salt water these days (we used to eat both!) People who don’t like anchovies like these eggs, but the person who makes them should like anchovies.
Hard boil 12 eggs. Cut them in half horizontally and put yolks in a bowl. Cut the bottoms off each half egg to make the “hats” for the eggs – kids love to put the hats on.
Soak a can or 1.5 cans of anchovies in water 10 minutes to reduce the salt. Drain and chop small.
Mix the egg yolks with the anchovies, 1-2 Tbsp cider vinegar, ½ grated onion (small side of the grater, include the juice). I also add lemon juice – 1-2 Tbsps, and one teaspoon mayonnaise. Put the filling back in each egg, then put the hat on top.
Eat these eggs at the seder and on the hag days – they do not keep long.
Passover granola – My dad found this recipe on the internet and Alen now makes it every year. Great with yogurt.
3 cups matza farfel
2/3 cup sliced almonds
½ cup coconut
2/3 cup pecans broken into large pieces
½ tsp salt
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
6 tablespoons margarine (use butter, it makes it more yummy)
1/3 cup honey
2 cups chopped dried mixed fruit of your choice (raisins, craisins, apricots, dates, figs, etc.)
Preheat oven to 325.
Combine farfel, almonts, coconut, pecans and spices
Melt or microwave butter and honey together for 1 minute
Stir butter mixture into farfel mixture until it is all coated
Spread on large cookie sheet and bake 15-20 minutes. Stir half way through to brown evenly.
Cool and then add the fruit.
When totally cooled, put in airtight container. Serve for breakfasts or snack.
Haroset balls by Alen (recipe from Curacao & Surinam called Garoza balls adapted by Alen.)
Dried figs, apricots, dates, apples, craisins
Cherry jam
Honey
Cinnamon
Grated coconut
Finely chopped almonds
Combine in a bowl finely chopped fruits, about 2 cups in all. Add a tablespoon of cherry jam, a tablespoon of honey, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 handful grated coconut and 1/2 handful of chopped almonds. Mix/knead with hands till mixed consistently in large ball. Put a couple of tablespoons of cinnamon on a plate, make small balls 3/4 in. diameter, roll in cinnamon, freeze until the start of the seder. They don't freeze solid.
2 matzos
3 oz margarine (melted), chicken fat or olive oil, or skip it, plus other oil/marg/fat for frying
2 eggs
2 small or one large onion, chopped small
parsley – about 1/8 cup
salt and pepper
nutmeg
matzo meal
Brown onions in oil or fat. I salt the onions, it helps them cook, then I don’t add other salt.
Soak matzot in water until soft. Squeeze very dry (easiest to do in a colander), fluff with fork
Add brown onions, margarine, beaten eggs and spices.
Add matzo meal to bind – the trick to keep them light is to add the minimum.
Roll on a plate of matzo meal into small balls – to keep them light, handle them as little as possible.
Make a pot of boiling salted water and cook 20 minutes in this – then add them to the soup.
They will be tastier if you cook them 30 minutes in soup, but you will lose some of your soup since they soak it up.
The challenge with these matzo balls is that the lighter you make them, the more likely they are to fall apart. Every time they come out a little different but they are always very tasty!
Anchovy Eggs – another recipe from Mom’s family – we love these and eat them instead of eggs in salt water these days (we used to eat both!) People who don’t like anchovies like these eggs, but the person who makes them should like anchovies.
Hard boil 12 eggs. Cut them in half horizontally and put yolks in a bowl. Cut the bottoms off each half egg to make the “hats” for the eggs – kids love to put the hats on.
Soak a can or 1.5 cans of anchovies in water 10 minutes to reduce the salt. Drain and chop small.
Mix the egg yolks with the anchovies, 1-2 Tbsp cider vinegar, ½ grated onion (small side of the grater, include the juice). I also add lemon juice – 1-2 Tbsps, and one teaspoon mayonnaise. Put the filling back in each egg, then put the hat on top.
Eat these eggs at the seder and on the hag days – they do not keep long.
Passover granola – My dad found this recipe on the internet and Alen now makes it every year. Great with yogurt.
3 cups matza farfel
2/3 cup sliced almonds
½ cup coconut
2/3 cup pecans broken into large pieces
½ tsp salt
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
6 tablespoons margarine (use butter, it makes it more yummy)
1/3 cup honey
2 cups chopped dried mixed fruit of your choice (raisins, craisins, apricots, dates, figs, etc.)
Preheat oven to 325.
Combine farfel, almonts, coconut, pecans and spices
Melt or microwave butter and honey together for 1 minute
Stir butter mixture into farfel mixture until it is all coated
Spread on large cookie sheet and bake 15-20 minutes. Stir half way through to brown evenly.
Cool and then add the fruit.
When totally cooled, put in airtight container. Serve for breakfasts or snack.
Haroset balls by Alen (recipe from Curacao & Surinam called Garoza balls adapted by Alen.)
Dried figs, apricots, dates, apples, craisins
Cherry jam
Honey
Cinnamon
Grated coconut
Finely chopped almonds
Combine in a bowl finely chopped fruits, about 2 cups in all. Add a tablespoon of cherry jam, a tablespoon of honey, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 handful grated coconut and 1/2 handful of chopped almonds. Mix/knead with hands till mixed consistently in large ball. Put a couple of tablespoons of cinnamon on a plate, make small balls 3/4 in. diameter, roll in cinnamon, freeze until the start of the seder. They don't freeze solid.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Late night fridge cleaning thoughts
Five people in my house went to sleep and I stayed up cleaning the fridge and realized:
After 16 years, I still sometimes miss being single. I don't miss the loneliness for one minute, but there are moments when I want just to go at my own pace and be alone with my house and the chances for this seem few and far between. Pesach cleaning needs a whole team I guess, but right now I want to do it alone.
I miss being young but I don't miss being stupid.
Glass shelves in the fridge clean up really nicely.
And eating dulce de leche with a spoon from the jar is probably the best way I know of to finish off a sugar free week or two. As good as it seemed like it would be :-)
A lot to be grateful for this season, starting with the five sleeping family members. Please take some time to hug the folks you love. And if you are single and wishing you weren't, take time to enjoy the parts I miss while you wait for what's coming. Someone told me this week, "the very fact that you want something means that it exists out there - all you have to do is find it."
If you haven't noticed, the clock on this blog is wrong. I'm posting it at 11:18 pm.
Hag sameach!
After 16 years, I still sometimes miss being single. I don't miss the loneliness for one minute, but there are moments when I want just to go at my own pace and be alone with my house and the chances for this seem few and far between. Pesach cleaning needs a whole team I guess, but right now I want to do it alone.
I miss being young but I don't miss being stupid.
Glass shelves in the fridge clean up really nicely.
And eating dulce de leche with a spoon from the jar is probably the best way I know of to finish off a sugar free week or two. As good as it seemed like it would be :-)
A lot to be grateful for this season, starting with the five sleeping family members. Please take some time to hug the folks you love. And if you are single and wishing you weren't, take time to enjoy the parts I miss while you wait for what's coming. Someone told me this week, "the very fact that you want something means that it exists out there - all you have to do is find it."
If you haven't noticed, the clock on this blog is wrong. I'm posting it at 11:18 pm.
Hag sameach!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Sea Change
So we're getting ready to celebrate our 17th Passover together and our 10th Passover in Israel. Did I just write that? Can it really be true? I am as shocked as you are.
I often wonder if we will ever feel like we live here, but some of the stuff going on right now makes me feel like we do. Not big stuff, just day to day stuff. The level of involvement we have in our local community, which feels very high after 3 years. The number of people we know and the connections we have. Small things.
I went by myself to a shloshim commemoration for a colleague and friend's father. She had gone to the states for the funeral and shiva so this was a chance for her community here to greet her. There were lots of people there I did not know, but lots of people I did know. And there were some people there I know who I had not seen in years. That means I've been here for years and years could go by with my not seeing them. I sat and easily listened to talks in Hebrew and English. I thought about what it means to lose a parent far away and about what it means to live in two civilizations. Then I came home.
There's a lot going on here - there's a bad conversion bill before the Knesset (see www.irac.org for what you can do). There's the new housing being built in a place I for the life of me can't figure out why they are calling East Jerusalem - it's in Ramat Shlomo. I guess it's at the top of East Jerusalem somehow. I'm much more worried about what's going on in Sheikh Jarrah, which is in the heart of East Jerusalem. There are problems right here in our area, which I hope to write about soon.
Sasha has a book about chocolate and it talks about how Cortes conquered the Aztecs. Gabi wants to know who was good and who was bad. When I can't answer that, she wants to know which side I am on. Help me out here if you can - should I say Cortes was bad? Is it important that I take a side here? The book says the Aztecs were very fierce and the Mayans were afraid of them. Who were the good guys anyway?
The neighbors borrowed two suitcases for their kids who are going on a school trip. I spent two hours at a birthday party where I knew the clown from Gabi's birthday last year and he greeted me like a friend. We hosted 4 kids at our house on Sunday for a host home for Gabi's school. These small things are making me feel like as we're heading into our 10th Pesach in Israel, we actually live here.
The coming year is right about when I expected congress to pass something letting us back in the US (and helping the thousands of binational couples like us who don't have the right to live together in the US). March in Washington on Sunday to make it happen (www.immigrationequality.org). I figured right around the time we felt really at home here, the laws would change. I'm feeling more at home, we're still waiting, but I'm not packing any suitcases.
P.S. One person who read this thought it meant we're moving back to the states - no, really we are not, we don't have that option and don't know what we would do if we did have the option. And P.P.S. Right after I wrote this I took Alen's car for inspection and was in and out in less than 30 minutes. I'm still waiting for where I have to pay the price for that miracle!
I often wonder if we will ever feel like we live here, but some of the stuff going on right now makes me feel like we do. Not big stuff, just day to day stuff. The level of involvement we have in our local community, which feels very high after 3 years. The number of people we know and the connections we have. Small things.
I went by myself to a shloshim commemoration for a colleague and friend's father. She had gone to the states for the funeral and shiva so this was a chance for her community here to greet her. There were lots of people there I did not know, but lots of people I did know. And there were some people there I know who I had not seen in years. That means I've been here for years and years could go by with my not seeing them. I sat and easily listened to talks in Hebrew and English. I thought about what it means to lose a parent far away and about what it means to live in two civilizations. Then I came home.
There's a lot going on here - there's a bad conversion bill before the Knesset (see www.irac.org for what you can do). There's the new housing being built in a place I for the life of me can't figure out why they are calling East Jerusalem - it's in Ramat Shlomo. I guess it's at the top of East Jerusalem somehow. I'm much more worried about what's going on in Sheikh Jarrah, which is in the heart of East Jerusalem. There are problems right here in our area, which I hope to write about soon.
Sasha has a book about chocolate and it talks about how Cortes conquered the Aztecs. Gabi wants to know who was good and who was bad. When I can't answer that, she wants to know which side I am on. Help me out here if you can - should I say Cortes was bad? Is it important that I take a side here? The book says the Aztecs were very fierce and the Mayans were afraid of them. Who were the good guys anyway?
The neighbors borrowed two suitcases for their kids who are going on a school trip. I spent two hours at a birthday party where I knew the clown from Gabi's birthday last year and he greeted me like a friend. We hosted 4 kids at our house on Sunday for a host home for Gabi's school. These small things are making me feel like as we're heading into our 10th Pesach in Israel, we actually live here.
The coming year is right about when I expected congress to pass something letting us back in the US (and helping the thousands of binational couples like us who don't have the right to live together in the US). March in Washington on Sunday to make it happen (www.immigrationequality.org). I figured right around the time we felt really at home here, the laws would change. I'm feeling more at home, we're still waiting, but I'm not packing any suitcases.
P.S. One person who read this thought it meant we're moving back to the states - no, really we are not, we don't have that option and don't know what we would do if we did have the option. And P.P.S. Right after I wrote this I took Alen's car for inspection and was in and out in less than 30 minutes. I'm still waiting for where I have to pay the price for that miracle!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Mindy's website
While I have been quietly doing nothing (well, not exactly), my wonderful friend Mindy has put up a fabulous website for her papercuts. Please take a look and spread the word!!!
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