Women Cook Passover Recipes
Almond Passover cookies
½ kilo almonds
4 large eggs
1 ½ cups sugar
1 package vanilla sugar
A little grated lemon
Directions
Soak the almonds in boiling water, take off the skin. Rinse and dry them on a towel for 8 hours and then grind them twice in a food processor. The first time by themselves and then the second time mix the almonds with sugar and grind them again. Whip the eggs. Add the eggs to the almond mixture and then add the rest of the ingredients . Place the mixture in a piping bag and press onto baking paper. Decorate with candies.
Fish patties in a piquant sauce
Ingredients for 6 diners
500 grams of ground fish- Tilapia or salmon or a mix
3 eggs
100 grams of parsley chopped finely
50 grams cilantro
½ cup matzah meal
500 grams tomatoes chopped into small pieces
3 cloves garlic
½ cup sunflower or canola oil
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 spicy green pepper(optional)
Directions
Place in a bowl the following ingredients: fish, eggs, matzah meal, ½ spoon salt, pinch of black pepper, one of the cloves of garlic crushed
In a medium sized pot or medium sized deep-frying pan heat the oil
Add the two remaining garlic cloves, add the tomatoes, and cook several minutes until it boils.
Make balls from the fish mixture and add it to the tomato mixture slowly.
Optional to add the spicy pepper at this time
Cook for about 40 minutes on a small fire. Bon appetite
Meat and Olive recipe
Ingredients
1 kilo pitted olives
250 grams roast meat
1 large onion
¼ cup oil
1 chicken bouillon (one tablespoon)
¼ teaspoon turmeric
¼ teaspoon black pepper
Bunch of parsley
Directions
Chop the onions and sauté them until browned and then add the olives and cook. Add two cups of water, ¼ cup oil, one tablespoon chicken bouillon. Chop the meat into small cubes, sauté them with ¼ cup oil and add ¼ teaspoon black pepper, ¼ teaspoon turmeric and cook on a low fire, towards the end of cooking add the olives and cut the parsley and add to the pot. Continue to cook until the most of the sauce is absorbed.
Healthy Cookies
2 cups sesame
2 cups of sunflower seeds
2 pumpkin seeds
2 egg whites (without egg yolks)
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Directions
Mix everything together. With a spoon make circles and place on baking tray covered with baking paper. Bake them at 170 degrees Celsius until they become golden.
Matzah balls Sephardic style
½ kilo matzah meal
3 eggs
2 cups boiling water
Pinch of salt
1 ½ cups sugar
20 pitted prunes
Directions
Place flour in a large bowl. Pour in 1 cup of boiling water and salt. Mix and knead well. Add the eggs, one at a time and mix so dough is soft and pliable.
Make 20 balls. Oil an area and place the balls and flatten them. Put a small spoon full of the prunes in the middle of each of the flattened balls. Close the balls well, make an oval shape with your hand. Boil water add sugar and little liqueur or rum or vanilla extract to the boiling water. When water is boiling well add the balls and cook of about ½ hour to ¾ hours on a low fire
Yemenite Soup
Ingredients:
2.5 lb. chicken: 3 leg quarters cut in a total of 6 pieces
1 onion, chopped
Three cloves garlic
1 cardamom pod
1 T of hawaij powder
¼ t of ground black pepper
¼ t of cumin
¼ t turmeric
¼ t of salt
2 potatoes, cut in 1-inch cubes
½ tomato
¼ bunch of cilantro
1 T of chicken soup powder
2 T of flour
Instructions:
Add a quart of water, 1 clove of garlic, and the cardamom to a 4-5-quart pot and bring it to a boil.
Add the chicken parts, the hawaj, cumin, salt, turmeric and stir.
When the chicken turns yellow, add potato and boiling water until ¾ of the pot is filled
Cook for about 20 minutes.
In a separate bowl mix flour and 2 cups cold water. Stir well until smooth and then pour into the simmering soup.
Put the rest of the ingredients in a blender/food processor: tomato, cilantro, the remaining cloves of garlic, pepper, chicken soup powder. Blend together.
Pour into the soup. Cook it for another half an hour on low heat.
Sat, July 27 2024
21 Tammuz 5784
Temple israel Happenings
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Tuesday ,
JulJuly 30 , 2024Sisterhood Book Club - "The Women"
Tuesday, Jul 30th 6:00pm to 8:30pm
We will discuss the book over dinner at someone's home. You will get their address the day before the event. Please bring your own dinner or something to share as pot luck. We are looking forward to hearing your opinion! -
Wednesday ,
AugAugust 7 , 2024Cocktails at the Lake with Sisterhood
Wednesday, Aug 7th 4:00pm to 7:00pm
RAIN DATE THURSDAY, AUGUST 8th. All women of Temple Israel and their friends are invited to a social, relaxing sunset potluck dinner at Stillwater Lake in Ossining. Come at 3:00 if you'd like to take a refreshing swim in the beautiful, clear lake with a sandy beach. To keep this cost-free, please sign up to bring something for the potluck AND register to attend below. Come for the whole time or stop by after work for a drink, snack, swim & shmooze. -
Friday ,
AugAugust 9 , 2024Shabbat Shabbang
Friday, Aug 9th 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Join our clergy for songs, music, crafts, challah, pizza, and yummy treats! We welcome families with children 7 and under (and their older siblings). Bring a friend to share in our Shabbat! -
Monday ,
AugAugust 12 , 2024Community Service Through Flowers
Monday, Aug 12th 11:00am to 12:30pm
The program promotes a sense of peace and unity within our community and beyond through acts of loving kindness and social justice. Our goal is to bring joy into the lives of the elderly by creating floral arrangements which are distributed to local nursing homes and to build community among volunteers through this process.
Events
Today's Calendar
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Friday Night
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Shabbat Day
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Upcoming Programs & Events
Jul 28 Matt Mansfield Sunday, Jul 28 2:00pm |
Jul 30 |
Aug 7 |
Aug 8 Private Memorial Service Thursday, Aug 8 10:00am |
Aug 9 |
This week's Torah portion is Parashat Pinchas
Shabbat, Jul 27 |
Erev Tishah B'Av
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