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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.
Thu, September 18 2025
25 Elul 5785
Temple israel Happenings
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Thursday ,
SepSeptember 18 , 2025Sisterhood Membership Celebration Dinner
Thursday, Sep 18th 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Are you a paid up member of Sisterhood? Then this is a Dinner for you! After a very brief opening meeting, share a delicious dinner, featuring a very special guest speaker. Free of charge to all paid-up Sisterhood Members. -
Sunday ,
SepSeptember 28 , 2025Reverse Tashlich 2025
Sunday, Sep 28th 12:30pm to 2:00pm
People of all ages welcome at Senasqua Park - 2 Elliott Way, Croton-on-Hudson NY 10520 Come at 12:00 with your own picnic lunch.- Clean up starts at 12:30 During Tashlich on Rosh HaShanah, we symbolically cast our "sins" into water. In Reverse Tashlich, we will remove human "sin" from the water by cleaning up the Hudson River and beginning the Jewish new year with purpose and care. -
Tuesday ,
SepSeptember 30 , 2025Sisterhood Book Group
Tuesday, Sep 30th 6:00pm to 8:30pm
We will be discussing the book "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante about the lifelong friendship of two women who grew up in Naples, Italy. We will be meeting at a congregant's house and having a potluck dinner. -
Wednesday ,
OctOctober 1 , 2025Kol Nidre
Wednesday, Oct 1st 8:15pm to 10:00pm
Choir Director Eddie Pleasant, Composer-in-Residence Dina Pruzhansky, and our choir, Hallel B'Shir will provide the music and a sermon will be given by one of our clergy. The Kol Nidre prayer itself will be enhanced by the beautiful sounds of the cello. Most appropriate for adults and children over the age of 12 but all ages are welcome to attend.
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