Aishet_Sheretz

New Chatroom to CLEAN together!!! (and also exercise! COME JOIN US TO REMOVE CLUTTER!)

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:41:08 GMT

Hi I've been FLYING for a few years.

I have a CHATROOM for people who are interested in cleaning (and exercise!) 15 mins on, 15 mins resting. (Some people go longer)

Please join me and let's get out of squalor!

Here's the URL

http://www.network54.com/Chat/125292

I am there most of the time (starting at 10 am PST) till midnight

I also have a forum
http://www.network54.com/Index/72153

So please come! I would really love your participation! I have done the Table Squalor, the Clutter Bag, in my home! Please join us!

Thanks!

PS, if this is not according to the rules please remove!

Sorry for cross-posting

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:10:08 GMT

Hello, I hope this doesn't offend anyone because I do have a question about the religion and on the community info it does mention that anyone with a question may ask it.

Anyway, I was wondering if it is against the religion for a woman to have anal sex? I have been reading though Leviticus, 21:1, and reading the "Punishments for Sin" chapter. It delves in many sexual acts, like a man having sex with another man, and incest, and of course bestiality, but there is nothing that I have seen that deals specifically with this. I was wondering if anyone knows anything of the matter?

Thanks for any help or opinions. I am a young woman, and not specifically orthodox/religious. But I do strongly believe in our faith, and would like to know if it is viewed as being 'detestable' or just very wrong in Hashem's eyes.

New chat for flyers: no invitations or registration needed

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:34:13 GMT

Hag Sameah!
The URL is: http://www.snmakeham.com/flychat/chat

Purim is coming

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:34:13 GMT

Purim is a few weeks away, so I was wondering if anyone wanted to share ideas for themed shaloch manos. I figure, we all live in different communities, so if one of us copies an idea that someone else's friend has done, who's gonna know?

My themed shaloch manos have never gone over that well. One year I copied a Jerusalem kugel theme, pickle and cute poem included, but it seemed like one of those things people always do. I have a fish-shaped cookie cutter, so another year I made cookies for mazal Adar and put them on blue bags of ripple potato chips. They were supposed to be fish in water, but I don't think anyone got it. The cutest shaloch manos I ever received was "A Gantz Yohr Purim" (a whole year Purim) and contained a tiny apple and jar of honey, a little cheesecake, a model seder table, and other foods I don't remember.

So, any suggestions?

Hello

Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:05:45 GMT

I've been around for a while, but I don't believe I've ever introduced myself. I'm Diana and I live in the UK. I'll be 20 next week, I'm married, and I have a 10.5 month old son.

My biggest 'housekeeping' problem I think would have to be keeping the floors clear. My son doesn't make that easier as he is toddling about, and now I have tiny bits of Weetabix and other such things *everywhere*. I dread next year'd Peseach cleaning. I find my living room floors, which carpet, is impossible to keep clean and there are small stains here and there from my son and husband (he is partially physically disabled) and some from myself. What are your floor cleaning and carpet stain removal tips?

Hello to all!

brand new Flybaby here!!!

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:48:54 GMT

Hey everyone! I just joined the site (actually I found it via surfing jewish communities and ending up here) and was wondering how you are doing so far?

I find it particularly funny that they tell me to shine the sink.. they have no idea that means doing a week's amount of old dishes first LOL!!

Whatever, i can do this... tshakkah!!

p.s. maybe (hopefully) we can revive this community?

weekday recipes needed

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:20:58 GMT

Fast, easy, and fairly healthy. Any suggestions?

challah baking

Thu, 05 May 2005 17:58:35 GMT

I wrote about this on my own journal, but it's a segulah for parnossa to bake challos in the shape of a key for this coming Shabbos. For a few more details, see my journal.

Update -the timer

Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:30:08 GMT

My best friend in this whole thing has been my timer. The control notebook (whether on paper, on the computer or on your handheld) is a good idea but it has to be remembered. The proverbial shiny sink - oh, yeah. My version is an empty dishdrainer, but, yes, it's a simple success.

I haven't been doing them.

But the timer - my goodness. Because you'd be amazed at what you can do in fifteen minutes of work. In two fifteen minute bursts, I started getting a handle on my kitchen last night. In one last night, with my husband's help, I managed to fill two large trash bags and two recyling bags.

And today - today my kitchen, which had been a total disaster (grocery bags everywhere, counter cluttered with everything you can imagine, floor so messy I couldn't even *sweep*, let along wash it, stove crusted and greasy...well, you get the idea.) has all four corners visible. Has been swept. The counters have been cleared and washed. The stove is still bad, but I can get to that tomorrow since I've done my Shabbos shopping.

I can finish up on Sunday, easily. And I can do the rest of the house with my husband's help - and that of the timer. We'll be eating take out chometz or pesadich with paper and plastic from Monday on, and I'll be using my evenings to finish up. By Thursday, I'll have refilled the fridge and started the cooking marathon, which is the fun part.

But I'll be doing everything but the cooking in fifteen minute intervals with ten minute rest periods.

Pesach

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:10:41 GMT

It's two weeks away. As I am the queen of procrastination, I have just started my cleaning. I always get it done in time. I shall get it done in time this year, too.

Again, we all have to remember that Pesach cleaning is not Spring cleaning. If there's a place chometz doesn't go, it doesn't have to be Pesach cleaned.

My own first step? Declutter the kitchen. I'm a terrible housekeeper and my kitchen is piled high with shopping bags and other stuff. Or it was. I got rid of a good amount today using the Flylady method - set fifteen minutes on a timer, clean for that long and *stop*.

I'm also firming up my guest lists and menus for the s'dorim. I'm not at the point of writing them down yet, but that will come. The best way not to spend too much money (yes, I know it's not counted against us for the year, but that doesn't mean we should be wasteful) is to plan all your meals for the week and then write out a shopping list and try to stick to it.

Shopping can be fun this time of year, especially in Flatbush (and I suspect other heavily Orthodox areas, too.) I wanted to make tofu for dinner tonight (don't make faces. I like tofu.) but there wasn't any in my local kosher supermarket. Fortunately, there were cans of chickpeas, so I can make a curry instead. And I have rice in the house.

One of my problems is that my husband is a firm believer in "ein sueda lo bosor v'lo yayin" - it's not a sueda, a feast, unless there is meat and wine. Wine isn't a probelm for a seder, of course, but meat can be. To whit - my brother-in-law, who is coming to us the first night, is a vegetarian, mostly. This means he does eat fish.

So. I'm making chickenless soup - all the normal herbs and veggies that go into a standard chicken soup, or maybe more, but no chicken. My mother-in-law made it last year, and it's delicious and goes well with matzo balls. This will be for both nights - I'm kashering my big soup pot. My matzo balls aren't so wonderful, but we will see. And I'm making an eggplant-zucchini-tomato baked dish that will be a side dish for most of us and a main course for him. And gefilte fish, so he'll definitely have protein. The rest of us will have chicken that I will roast during Maggid, which means all the yumminess of freshly roasted chicken. Yay. I'll also make a farfel kugel. If only we ate kitniyot...I could make brother-in-law tofu.

The second night will be pot roast or beef stew that I'll reheat during Maggid, again, and serve with its own veggies.

We do eat largish seders because we don't hold by large shiurim.

Meanwhile, we also have to deal with the halachic problems this year poses - our houses are pesadich, but we're required to make motzi for Shabbat and we can't make it on matzo so we have to have bread, but no one wants bread in their houses.

Disaster recovery

Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:14:55 GMT

OK, not really disaster, but a tough nut...

Last November, I lost my system to a virus. Had to nuke it from orbit and reinstall. I tried to back up all my personal files before I wiped the hard disk, but wouldn't ya know I neglected to back up my Pesach lists. I searched my server thoroughly, combed through my CD-ROM backup. Nothin'.

Now I have to recreate 15 years worth of cleaning, shopping, and kashering lists. Ugh.

The obvious things like "clean the refrigerator" and "buy Matzoh" are easy, but there are always stupid little things that I forget from year to year and need to be reminded of.

I'm asking this community to share their gotchas on cleaning and kashering, because while shopping is way personal, I'm pretty sure all the secret cleaning gotchas that were on my list are also on at least one of your lists, too.

Thanks for any help. I promise to back it up this time. No, really!

Pesach around the corner

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:50:01 GMT

So Purim is over and now starts the mad-rush to get Pesach cleaning accomplished. Hah! I say again, HAH!

For the last couple of years, I've had a lovely spreadsheet in Excel detailing each room that needs to be cleaned, what specific tasks should be approached, and preferred order.

This year, we're in a bigger house, but more importantly, there is a small child in the house which is completely throwing me off. I can't figure out how to go about cleaning for Pesach with him in the house.

I mean, he's great, but even though I only feed him in his high chair, he is a crumb monster and crumbs get dragged everywhere, no matter how hard I try to hose him off after meals. Plus there are his toys! Toys that go in his MOUTH!

Argh. So a few questions to those of you who have kids:

How do you limit the chometz-spreading by your toddlers?
How much do I have to worry about his toys?
I usually try to get my kitchen done a little on the early side so that I can do some cooking ahead of time. I'm afraid, however, that if I do that, I'll be limiting Julian's already-limited food choices. How do you work around this?
At what point do I say, "enough's enough, I've done my best" this year? I mean, I'm always very thorough, but I also am not sure how much extra stress I can take this year. Maybe that's a question for my rabbi.

Somehow, this year I just can't get my brain around how to do it. Sigh.

Morning routines

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:54:35 GMT

It's been quiet around here lately, so I thought I'd share my morning routine:

Ailsa's Morning Routine

The morning routine is broken down into four parts:

Rise and Shine
- Say "Modeh ani."
- Fling back covers, head to bathroom, wash hands, say "Netilas Yedayim" and "Asher Yotzar".
- Strip, hang up nightgown, do yoga exercises.
- Return to the bathroom.
- Brush your teeth, shower, draw David's bath.
- Pop David into the bath.
- Swish the toilet and sink and leave the room never to return till later. It is clean and you can forget about it for now.
- Dress, make bed, daven shacharis.
- Get David out of bath and dress him.
- Leave your bedroom with a load of laundry in hand and go straight to the washer.
- Feed & water cats.
Kitchen
- Make coffee and start breakfast.
- If you did your Before Bed Routine, the kitchen is clean and all you need to do is empty the dishwasher.
- Feed the David and put his lunch in his backpack.
Think About Your Day
- Check your calendar.
- Make your list of what you are going to do today (PODA or To Do List)
- Reboot the laundry (put in dryer).
- Hit the hotspots. If you did your Before Bed Routine there will not be any.
Now Think About Yourself
- Take your vitamins.
- Sit down.
- Eat breakfast (if you haven't already).
- Now reward yourself with some computer time. Check your e-mail and write morning LJ post.
- Head upstairs to meditate.

I'm kind of pleased with it, especially since it works over half an hour of exercise into every day.

Succot

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:08:41 GMT

Living in Israel, I only have one day, with a day 'off' before Shabbat. However, I have company from the US, so I will still end up serving 6 yom tov meals (even if I spread out the cooking). Here are my menus.

Wed night: out

Thursday lunch (total = 22 people): melon, brisket with potatoes, Italian chicken cutlets with rice, sweet potato kugel, noodle kugel, salad, apple pie, peach pie, cookies

Thursday night: chicken soup with kreplach, garlic chicken, broccoli, fruit salad

Friday lunch: sweet and sour salmon, mushroom barekas

Friday night (total = 10 people): gefilte fish, cabbage soup, honey mustard chicken, cranberry apple kugel, sesame salad, cherry pie

Shabbat lunch: (total for meal = 10, for dessert total = 20)fruit salad, grilled chicken breasts, (cholent if the current heat wave breaks), potato salad, lemon pie, apple pie, cookies, jelly roll

Yes, I do bake a lot *g*.

And finally, a couple of suggested main courses for people who are looking for quick and easy ideas. Scallopine (made with either chicken or veal) and pepper steak (can be beef or chicken). Both involve basically browning meat and sauteeing vegetables (the scallopine meat is dipped in flour before browning, and white wine and half a cup of soup is added to the vegetables). The chopping is the most time consuming part; the cooking goes quickly and it can be made on yom tov itself (provided you have left a burner on) or made in advance and simply reheated before the meal. Serve with rice.

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:14:56 GMT

Anybody else having trouble coming up with three days straight of festive menus (or even the enthusiasm to come up with them in the first place) since we had three days straight of festivity at Rosh Hashana? Any advice? I had two loaves of challah turn very fuzzy and disgusting without ever being cut, so I do know not to quadruple the challah recipe this time (two challah loaves each for Rosh Hashanah and Shabbos, plus one batch of dough to make pizzas for Rosh Hashanah lunches). But I honestly have no idea what I am going to fix, and tonight is my last chance to run out & get any groceries that are lacking.

And I have a horrible sinking feeling that we are going to be racing against the clock to get the Sukkah up again.

erev yom kippur

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:04:40 GMT

Wishing everyone a g'mar chatima tova and an easy fast!

Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:13:28 GMT

So, here's my menu for the next three days of festive eating. I realize a) most of you don't have time to look at it now, and b) everyone else did this earlier, but I couldn't grocery shop until today (payday) anyway, so I didn't make up my menu until last night. Oh, and the table format (hand-coded) was to force myself to sit and take a few deep breaths before jumping back into the fray. I can do it. I can.

Rosh Hashana				Shabbos
Day 1		Day 2		Shabbos
Dinner	Lunch	Dinner	Lunch	Dinner	Lunch
Challah
Apples & honey	Swedish fish (for fish heads)	Pomegranate	Swedish fish (for fish heads)	Applesauce
Gherkins		Gherkins		Gherkins
Honey roasted peanuts		Honey roasted peanuts		Honey roasted peanuts
Blade roast a la Alton Brown	Homemade pizza	Turkey breast	Homemade pizza	Swedish meatballs	Quiche
Baked potatoes		Pilaf		Brown rice
		Kreplach		Apple kugel	Devilled eggs
Alton Brown's Parsley Salad	Tossed salad	Crudites	Tossed salad	Carrot salad	Israeli salad
Hermits	&Chocolate chip cookies	Hermits	&Chocolate chip cookies	Hermits	Chocolate chip cookies
Apple crisp	Ice cream	Apple pie	Ice cream	Chocolate cake	Ice cream

L'shan tova, everyone! :)

Everybody's doing it... oh! the peer pressure!

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:30:26 GMT

Well, since it's becoming a trend, here's my holiday menu (pretty much verbatim out of my own journal):

1st Night (Wednesday):
Guests:(7, including Seth and me)
Menu:
Challah
Apples and Honey Sticks
Porcini Mushroom and Onion Soup (done)
Gefilte Fish
Pomegranate Chicken (meat is marinading now. Won't take long to cook tomorrow...maybe I'll make Seth cook it while the electrician is here)
Tomato and cucumber salad (will do Wednesday immediately before dinner)
Mushroom Tart (in freezer... will need to do last bit of cooking when I get home Wednesday afternoon)
Broccoli Kugel (new recipe....in oven now)
Basmati Rice
Pomegranate
Teiglach (will pick up Tuesday...already ordered) and assorted fruit

Thursday Lunch: out

2nd night (Thursday):
Guests: (6 total)
Challah
Cold Carrot Soup (no idea when I'm going to make this...probably Tuesday night)
Gefilte Fish
Apples and Honey Sticks
Lynne's Fabulous Chicken minus the nuts
Apple Kugel (done...in freezer)
Rice
Pomegrantes and some other new fruit (haven't found another)
Roasted Caramelized Carrots (drat! I forgot about making these...they're quick. I'll do them late Monday night)
Honey Cake (will pick up Tuesday...already ordered)

Friday lunch: leftovers

Friday night:
Guests: (total: 4-9 unknown for the moment)
Challah
Er... some kind of soup, maybe. If I get around to it. Possibly more cold carrot soup if there's enough.
Gefilte Fish
Garlic Dip (will make Tuesday night)
Salad
Brisket (will start on Tuesday. Will finish during the day on Friday)
Scalloped potatoes (will make on Friday)
Asparagus (possibly Asparagus quiche if I feel like going to the effort)
Cranberry apple pie thingy (this is a side dish, not a dessert)
Apple Crisp for Dessert (need to make this...argh)

Saturday lunch: OUT

As you can see, I haven't cooked nearly enough. I should have worked on my fish last night, but my feet and back were KILLING me from hauling stuff around all day and then standing in the kitchen for hours. I needed a break. I feel like I ought to have done more ahead of time, but last week was a zoo and I was lucky to have shabbos dinner on the table. How early can I possibly do this? The kidling (Aaron) specifically asked if we were going to have the fish that he likes, so I have to make it. It's just very time intensive, what with all the frying. Oh heck, who needs sleep the week before a holiday?

more Rosh Hashana menus

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 05:47:14 GMT

Since mamadeb posted her menus for the chag, I thought I'd do the same. (Recipes available on request).

Wednesday night: various 'simanim' (apple in honey, beets, dates, pomegranite, tongue--in lieu of a fish head, 'shehecheyanu' fruit), gefilte fish, chicken soup, Italian chicken cutlets with rice, broccoli, peach pie and cookies

Thursday lunch: (milchig) melon, salmon, mushroom berekas, ice cream

Thursday night: redux of previous night, only main course is the rest of the tongue in a sweet and sour sauce

Friday lunch: (milchig) fruit salad, quiche, lasagna

Friday night: soup, honey-mustard chicken, kugels (potato and carrot), cake

Shabbat lunch: gazpacho, grilled chicken breasts, cold cuts, salad, apple pie and cookies

We are a family of six (including two very hungry teenage boys), plus will be having company at nearly every meal. Needless to say, I'm spending the next 3 days in the kitchen!

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:01:09 GMT

My guest list is set - friend from shul the first night; my mother, her boyfriend and another friend from shul the second night.

Menus: Wednesday night
Apples/honey
Wine
Challah
Gefilte fish
Chicken noodle soup
Turkey
Challah stuffing
Broccoli
Honeycake

Thurs lunch:
Tuna salad
Fruit

Thurs dinner
challah
wine
fish
soup
pot roast
veggies from pot roast
honey cake

Friday lunch
Omelets.

Shabbat dinner:
Leftovers

Shabbat lunch
Leftovers part deux

Cooking schedule:

Making the chicken soup *now*. Will cook the pot roast tomorrow night, and possibly the fish. Make the stuffing/kugel on Tuesday night *after* my Pakua evaluation (not ready for blue belt yet, but hey.) or on Wednesday. Turkey gets cooked on Wednesday. Get bread and honey cake then.

Looking at that, it's actually doable. Huh.

Eruv Tavshilin:

Can't be done later than Wednesday before Yom Tov. Take two cooked foods - bread and hardboiled egg are standard, but so long as they're cooked in two different ways and take two different brachot, you're fine. Take the foods with the intention of eating them on Shabbat.

Say the bracha, which is a long statement in Aramaic. It's in any O siddur or machzor. You can also say it in English. Set the food aside for Shabbat. You have now officially begun preparing your Shabbat meals, and can now do anything you need to do in reference to Shabbat on Friday. This includes cooking and lighting Shabbat candles. Try to remember to eat the set-aside food on Shabbat.

(I'm seriously thinking of using the turkey...)

Tishrei

Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:04:23 GMT

Less than one month to go before Yom Tov.

Rosh HaShanah starts the evening of September 15th, which is a Wednesday night. So it's a three day holiday. That means that Yom Kippur is on Shabbat, and Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah are also on Thursday, which means three days outside of Israel.

It's time to start planning, and past.

With three days to plan for, you need to know what you're cooking for six festive meals in a row, and how to do it with the various restrictions due to holidays.

There are several rules to holiday cooking if you're Orthodox or lotherwise observant.

1. Fires cannot be stopped or started, but can be transferred. Some rabbi'im permit increasing and decreasing fires, others only increasing. Some willl even permit the shutting off of a gas stove because it is permitted to remove fuel from a fire. If you do not have a pilot light for your gas stove, you can use an existing flame to light a burner. I keep a long burning candle in my kitchen. It serves as a "pilot light" for my stove and as a source of flames for my second day and Shabbat candles. If you cook with electricity, consult your rabbi.

2. It is not permitted to prepare anything on a holiday for the next day - not even for the holiday that begins that very night. You can't start dinner for Thursday night on Thursday afternoon, unless you plan to consume part of that dinner before nightfall. This becomes a major factor on a Friday yom tov, because while one can cook on Thursday night, one cannot cook Friday night. And one must light the Sabbath candles at the normal time, which is still technically Friday afternoon. So what one does is prepare an eruv tavshilin - setting aside two cooked foods, usually a roll (or piece of matzah if it's Pesach) and an egg with a blessing. These foods are to be eaten on Shabbat. You have therefore begun your preparations for Shabbat. You simply continue them on Friday. This does not work between Thursday afternoon and Thursday night because one can cook and light candles on Thursday night.

That said, one should prepare as much as possible in advance. So start planning menus for the holidays and the Sabbaths.

Also start thinking about Sukkot - what sort of foods would be nice to eat in the chilly October air? And which would be easy to transport down a flight of stairs or even several blocks to a shul sukkah? And remember the days can still be warm and you need to prepare for that.

Any ideas for menus?

I'm serving turkey one night and pot roast the second, with leftover for Shabbat when it comes to Rosh HaShanah.

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:40:50 GMT

Shavua tov.

Tuesday is Tisha B'Av. The worst day on the Jewish calender. The day both Temples were destroyed. The day chosen for the Jewish expulsion from Spain. The day we remember the massacres during the First Crusade and Holocaust (as well as on Yom HaShoah).

For twenty-five hours, we do not eat. We do not drink. We do not bathe. Men do not shave (not that they have been for the past nine days anyway). We do not have sexual relations. We do not wear clean clothing. We do not wear ointments. We do not wear leather shoes. We do not learn Torah except as directly relates to this day. We do not greet our friends. As it is not a Torah holiday, we can drive and spend money and watch television and go on the computer and make phone calls. We can cook, although that would be more like torture.

But what we have to concern ourselves with is the prefast and postfast meals, and what to do with the kids under bar/bat mitzvah.

In my house, we eat the salmon pasta I talked about previously for the prefast, and we try to drink a lot of water during the day. I usually overload, though. Not a good idea, as it just, well, means you spend a lot of time in the bathroom. (The true last meal is, of course, a hardboiled egg and ashes, but that's not going to see you through a fast day.)

I make it in advance and serve it cold because this can be a rather rushed meal and it makes life easier to have it on hand.

My post-fast meal is even simpler - I break the fast with V8 juice (for those who can have sugar, a sports drink or orange juice would work well.) and then finish with bagels and lox or whitefish. Nothing that needs to be cooked.

How do others manage? And what do you do with the kids? Make food in advance so you can just dole it out?

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:14:16 GMT

I invented this dish one Shabbat when we were having a non-meat eating friend over for dinner at the last minute. It's since become a standard erev Tisha B'av dish.

Sarah's Pasta

1/2 bag bowties or spirals or other similar pasta
3/4 fresh salmon fillet, skin removed, or one large can salmon
One half package frozen peas
Three or four cloves of garlic, chopped, mashed or grated.
Wine, balsamic vinegar, or cider vinegar during the Nine Days when wine is forbidden.
Pepper
Olive oil

While the pasta cooks -

If using fresh salmon, dice and saute it in the olive oil, in a large saute pan. If using canned, skip this step.

Saute the garlic in the oil until just turning brown. Add the canned salmon if using and the wine or vinegar, and the pepper.

Put the frozen peas in the colander. When the pasta is cooked, drain over the frozen peas so that they cook. Mix the pasta and peas with the salmon mixture - toss to make sure it's mixed. Can be served warm, cold or room temperature. Makes a good alternative to gefilte fish and works well for a potluck.

Recipes

Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:28:52 GMT

Now that the Nine Days have begun, I thought it would be a good idea if people posted a favorite/simple/tasty milchig dish.

Here's my contribution:

PIZZA QUICHE

1 9 inch (unbaked) pastry shell*
1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
1 small onion, chopped
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
3 eggs
3/4 cup milk
2 firm tomatoes, thinly sliced

Preheat oven to 350F. Sautee onion in butter until transparent (do not allow to get too brown), add seasonings and set aside to cool. Place pastry shell into baking dish/pie plate. Spread cheese over the bottom. Place sauteed onion on top of the cheese. Arrange tomato slices on top of onion. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with a fork, then pour in milk and continue beating until thoroughly mixed. Carefully pour egg-milk mixture on top of the tomatoes and then place the dish into the oven. Bake for 40 minutes.

*For those who wish to make their own quiche dough,

QUICHE DOUGH

4 cups flour
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 3/4 cup shortening/butter (margarine will not work as well)
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 large egg

Combine flour with sugar and salt. Cut in shortening, using a pastry cutter. In a separate bowl, combine water, vinegar and egg. Combine the contents of both bowls and stir with fork till moistened. Divide dough (should be rather crumbly/sticky) into 4 equal portions/ball. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Knead each ball of dough briefly, then roll out and place into a baking dish. Yield: 4 pie shells. Unused dough can be frozen for later use.

the next holiday

Wed, 02 Jun 2004 03:27:23 GMT

is the next holiday tisha beav because if it is thats bad because thats not a fun holiday