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Jul 21, 2009

Special Raw Food Edition!!

Almond Pulp Spead
-pulp of almond and coconut
-diced pepper
-cilantro
-pinch of cayenne
-olive oil
-say sauce
-lemon
-salt

serve with cabbage leaves to wrap

Sunflower Seed Spread
-celery or cilantro
-2 gloves of garlic
-2 cups of soaked seeds from overnight
-handful of walnuts (do not soak, oil is good!)
-curry spice
-salt
-lemon juice
-add water if too think
food processor

Banana Ice Cream
-3 peeled frozen bananas
-tahina (with husk)
-dates (6-7)
-ice cubes
optional: shredded coconut and vanilla)

Pickling technique

How to pickle capers/olives/parsiline leaves

put in jar
add vinegar equal to the caper/olive
garlic
onion
peppercorn
bayleaf
mustard seeds
lemon (cut into slices)
salt
seal and let chill for a long time

Chava's Simple Bread Puddin'

-tear old crusty bread into small pieces
-add soy or milk (1.5liquid=2 cups bread)
-clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla
-optional: sugar, coconut, raisens

Stir over flame until mush, pour into pan and bake 15-20 mins until golden brown on top

Dec 20, 2008

Kubaneh

This Sfardic bread dish is amazingly good served with Yemenite soup

  • 5 cups of flour (use half whole wheat)
  • make a well and add 2.5 tsp yeast, tbl salt, tbl sugar
  • Add 2 cups of warm water and whip the dough
Don't be alarmed, its a wet dough.
*tip: wet hand in water before whipping
  • Repeat whipping every half hour 3 times
  • pour oil on the counter and roll out dough into flat sheet
  • pour a little oil on the dough and roll it, cup into 6 sections
  • place pieces at bottom of an oiled tall pot and let rise unti 3/4 high
  • bake covered on bottom shelf on 350 for an hour or until crispy

Chanukah Suf Ganiot (donuts)

  • 3 cups of flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • dash of salt
  • 4 tbl. sugar
  • 1 cup yogurt (or sour cream if you aren't counting)
  • 1 cup milk
drop spoon full into canola oil
roll in powdered sugar
eat immediately!

Parve recipe:
  • 1 ounce yeast
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • 3 cups margarine
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 2 egg yolks
  • dash salt
  • 1 1/4 cup warm water
  • filling (chocolate spread, jelly)
  • oil
  • powdered sugar
mix flour, yeast. water, sugar and let rise
combine with the rest and let rise
fry, fry, fry

Zadok's Zucchini Cake

(Add ingredients in this order)
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup of dark sugar (substitute with other sweetener)
  • 3/4 cup oil
Beat it
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • salt
  • cinn
  • all spice or nutmeg
  • 1 cup flour (whole wheat)
  • 2 cups of grated zucchini (or carrot)
  • add craisens or walnuts (optional)
bake for 350 for hour

Emiliano's Salsa

By popular demand (Em I hope you dont mind ;)

Roast about a dozen small tomatoes
Roast about a head of garlic
throw it into a blender with
-half of raw onion
-mad salt
- 3 or 4 or 5 (depends on your tolerance) chipotle chilis
(I like to add lime, but that's not official)

Nov 24, 2008

Morgan's Pumpkin Cookies

2 cups of canned pumpkin
1 cup of oil
2 tsp. vannila
4 cups of flour
2 tsp. baking SODA
2 CUPS of yummy chocolate chips...... fave part
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. cow juice
4 tsp. baking POWDER
2 tsp. Cinnoman
1 cup walnuts......if you want to put them in its optional u no ratorical
2 tsp. PUMPKING PIE SPICE♥
Directions..
mix wet ingrediants in a bowl then mix the dry ingrediants in a seperate bowl, then mix together.
grease cookie sheet, BAKE AT 320 FOR 12 MINutes ok........(your oven may be different so 12 to 15 minutes) check 1st batch okydokey..

Oct 30, 2008

Simple Seseme Noodles

1/2 cup soy
1/2 toasted seseme oil
1/3 cup sugar
seseme seeds

Pour over noodles and serve cold

Squash Kugel (2 variations)

20 oz of butternut squash
1 stick margerine
1/2 cup of parve coffee creamer
1/2 cup flour
drop of cinn
3 eggs
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2 medium squash (8 sweet potatoes) peeled and boiled
1/2 cup oil
3 eggs
3/4 cup sugar (less with sweet potato)
1 cup flour
1/4 vanilla flavored soy milk