Would you offer suggestions for preparing a quick traditional Jewish meal?

bagel and lox for appetizer cut in small bite-size squares.

This would be a nice and easy Israeli dinner. Make falafel for appetizers or main dish (if you serve it as sandwiches). In that case, make (or buy) some hummus and baba ganoush for the appetizer. You can serve it with a traditional Israeli tomato-cucumber salad. Make some rugelach cookies for dessert, or serve fresh chilled watermelon with a salty feta cheese. B’teavon.

You could make a nice roast chicken for a main course. If you get an organic chicken, you can fry up the liver with some onions and blend it with a hard boiled egg and chop it up all real good for an appetizer, as in “what am I, chopped liver?”

I’m off at nine sis and I’ll be over. I didn’t read the book, but I really want the watermelon with salty feta cheese, man that sounds good!

You don’t even have to do anything for that dessert. Just cut up the watermelon into wedges, and serve chunks of feta cheese next to it. Awesome treat for dessert on a hot day…

@shilolo I bookmarked that recipe, I can’t believe how good that sounds!

@SuperMouse The contrast of sweet with salt is the bomb (um, maybe not the best slang for an Israeli recipe, but still…)

@shilolo lol4rl!

Potato latkes are one of my favorite foods of all time! Make them nice and crispy and serve with sour cream and/or applesauce. Right now you should be able to find lots of Jewish specialty foods in the grocery stores for Passover.

Chicken soup! With extra noodles!!
Brisket!
Kasha and bows!
Blintzes! (if you’re not serving meat, of course)
Seven layer cake!
Humantashen (now’s the season)
Manishewitz (crappy kosher wine, for a truly authentic Jewish meal)

We just finished eating matzah ball soup in my house. Oh my, that is yummy!

@shilolo

That menu is pretty much pareve which would not conflict with anyone’s prior meals. Good idea. To keep it truly pareve, omit the feta, I guess.

I don’t think that Rugelach are milchig, do they contain butter?
I don’t bake at all.

SRM

@srmorgan – why does it need to be pareve? I didn’t see where gimmedat even said it needed to be kosher…

@srmorgan and @La_chica_gomela Yeah, I didn’t really intend a pareve meal. I just set up a modern and traditional Israeli meal Since the book is about an Israeli man, I felt it would be apropros.

@shilolo – I agree. I think it sounds like an excellent menu.

nothing traditional is quick

i must say that having snacks related to the book is a great idea! lurve to your book club!!!

Thanks so much to all of you. I don’t care for hummus or falafel, so I went with matzo ball soup, some kosher cookies, bagels with a veggie spread and lox, the watermelon and feta dish, and for another dessert I baked a kosher chocolate banana cake. Good stuff…I hope.

The book is an interesting read. The idea of food related to the book is just another reason I love my bookclub ladies. We rock.

@La_chica_gomela

I wasn’t suggesting that the meal had to be pareve. I just drew that conclusion before reviewing the menu and seeing the feta
It sounds like a great menu to me, but like gimmedat, no one else in the house will eat hummus or baba ganoush, so it’s a party of one here unless you and Shilolo want to come to North Carolina.

SRM

@gimmedat – then I see you took my suggestion, but gave me no lurve. I see how it is. :P