Yuuuumy Shavuos Menu

BaalHabooze what time should i be there?

we eat SOME milchigs before day meal, but then have a fleishige seudah.

we make “har sinai” cupcakes for dessert, decorated before yom tov together with the kids.

OK, I think we’re gonna do something like this –

Appetizer – tuna/vege blintzes with mushroom sauce

Not sure about the soup but onion sounds yummy – we may pass on soup since we have a ton of food for entre –

Lasagna

Egg/cheese quiche

Cottage cheese/pineapple kugel (may have to get the recipe from BHB’s wife for that cherry kugel business though)

Dessert – take your pick

1 israeli cheese cheesecake

1 plain cream cheese cheesecake with blueberry topping

1 chocolate cheesecake

1 sour cream chocolate pound cake

cheese blintzes

milchig ice cream

Ummm, I’m full already thinking about it.

Ohhh, I forgot to mention that one of the highlights for our meal is bagels (yes, there are finally some places here that make pretty good American bagels with top hechsherim here in EY – YEAH!!!!!) with homemade cream cheese and lox.

did someone call my name? you want my shavuos menu??? 🙂

Cheese & wine party.

Oomis

There are a lot of recipes you can make stovetop: Blintzes, cheese latkes, soups, pastas, mashed potatoes, brisket, schnitzel…

Two years in a row our oven broke erev pesach.

We don’t have our convection oven anymore, but I’m sure there are many brands on the market that can roast and bake as you wish.

Keep us posted….

Let me know if u need any recipes.

Oomis – You can make almost anything on the stovetop. Spaghetti & meatballs, stewed chicken and potatoes, chicken cacciatore, fried chicken cutlets, pickled salmon, fish in tomato sauce, croquettes (tuna, chicken or salmon), stir fry, shredded chicken (cook cutlets and sauteed onions in barbecue sauce and water, shred chicken with two forks, cook some more and serve over buns or rice, steamed or sauteed vegetables, quinoa (hot or cold), pasta salads, sesame noodles, macaroni & cheese, pasta in any kind of sauce (vodka, alfredo, marinara), make rice and turn it into a sushi salad or add onions, vegetables, chicken, tofu, etc., stuffed peppers, beef stew, goulash, steamed wontons filled with chopped meat, chicken or vegetables, gourmet sandwiches and wraps. Joy of Kosher or Gourmet Kosher Cooking have great recipes and you can probably put together a great menu quickly.

To all of you who replied with really helpful suggestions, thanks very much. Some of the things you suggested, I can do. Others (like pasta dishes and anything with sesame), I cannot, because there are some allergies and other dietary restrictions in my family (among all the people who will be here for yom tov),that make some of those delicious sounding suggestions undoable for me, unfortunately. (I commiserate with those whose ovens also broke down). My neighbor graciously allowed me the use of her oven today, so I am trying to do what I can this morning. I HATE going into yom tov with stress.

I have a wonderful repair man, whom I trust implicitly, and he cannot get the part needed. The thermostat on my old Magic Chef wall oven, went. They do not make this type of thermostat anymore. The oven was valuable to me because it had a continuous pilot (not electric ignition).

Convection ovens that run on electricity, will be good for before yom tov, but won’t help on yom tov. I cannot get a new oven installed before Shavuos, in any case, even were I able to afford one. But now the question is, any recommendations for wall ovens???? Pros and cons…

i wish everyone much mazal, brocha, and hatzlacha with all the cooking, baking et al. especially you oomis1105! and please, try to enjoy it!

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Thank you Tzaddiq. Once it is yom tov and I am not going back and forth to my neighbors to use their oven, I will be fine. Right now I am like a house on fire. I have literally been up and down the stairs maybe two dozen times today. My only rest stop was posting in the CR briefly today. I happen to LOVE yomim tovim, and the more company I have the better I like it. I am looking at this tiny (in the grand scheme of things) nisayon as a kapara for something else. It just is the timing that was the problem.

Taka – I get mine from Heimishe Bagels, where they have different hechsher. Also good bagels and decent price. There’s also Bush Bagel now on Bar Ilan. Not bad but more expensive. They sell cream cheese there also.

We’re out for the day meal, and home for the night meal. I’m not sure what’s on the menu, but I know there will be Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream in the freezer for dessert. We still get our bagels from Holy Bagel – just picked them up this afternoon and popped them in the freezer when we got home.