Family Meals and Memories. Today two fellow food bloggers wrote about either the importance of eating as a family or passing down recipes from generation to generation. Many memories of mine came from preparing food and around the dinner table. Now I let my kids look at food books and magazines and allow them to choose one dish for Shabbos. Earlier I noted that food is the universal language. If you are not dining as a family, then there are no food memories to pass down. I would love to hear your take on this. | Mi Kosher Cocina

Family Meals and Memories. Today two fellow food bloggers wrote about either the importance of eating as a family or passing down recipes from generation to generation. Many memories of mine came from preparing food and around the dinner table. Now I let my kids look at food books and magazines and allow them to choose one dish for Shabbos. Earlier I noted that food is the universal language. If you are not dining as a family, then there are no food memories to pass down. I would love to hear your take on this.

17 Jan 2012 2 Comments

by Brina Gonzalez in Uncategorized

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Previous Levantamuertos Soup Its January and that means a lot of people are fighting colds. Chicken soup is known as natural penicillin so I’d like to share my version from my husband’s homeland El Salvador. This soup is a normal Sunday midday delight and if served as an all-in-one meal with a glass of vitamin-c packed orange juice is sure to cure the winter ails. Place the following ingredients in a large pot. Peel and chop vegetables first unless noted. 1 chicken cut up 1/2 cup rice 2 yucca roots- found in Hispanic and produce markets 2 plantain bananas (do not peel this!) 2 small yellow potatoes 1 onion 2 carrots 2 stalks celery 1 zucchini 1 yellow squash 2 garlic cloves minced salt to your taste Next add enough water not only to cover the ingredients but more as well. Bring to a boil. Add 1/4 c chopped fresh cilantro leaves. Let the soup simmer for one hour or until the vegetables are cooked. Wishing everyone healthy winter months ahead. Next Beating the Winter Food Doldrums Usually at this time of year I go into a cooking rut. The skies are gloomy and stay gray all day long. My creativity and motivation goes downhill fast. I long for summer months, blue skies, and my annual trip to the beach. That is until this year. Thanks to the abundance of food blogs and websites and great thinkers running them, I am exposed to new food ideas everyday. Lately for shabbos I have been trying one or two recipes that I find on the sites each week. And while the new food I’m cooking isn’t new to most of you, it’s new to me, and in my case that’s all that counts. So instead of a new recipe, I leave you with my ideas for fighting the winter food doldrums. I hope that by Purim, my ambition to cook perks up with the warming winter and blueing skies. 1. Cook comfort food. In our family that includes rice and beans, cranberry chicken, and salmon stew. 2. Repeat the same meal many times over the month if need be. I think this week will be the 3rd time I’m making cranberry chicken for shabbos in the last two months. 3. Change up meat, pareve, and dairy so you don’t feel like you’re eating the same meal every night. 4. Buy one or two prepared items for each shabbos if available to you. 5. Do look at all the food blogs, sites, and groups available and don’t be afraid to try out others ideas. They could become your family’s new go to dish.

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Jan 18, 2012 @ 02:06:11

I’m sure your recipes are great, but why is your entire post in the title? It makes it really hard to read, especially because of the lack of punctuation and spelling.

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- Brina Gonzalez
  Jan 18, 2012 @ 02:12:57
  
  Sorry. My computer is kaput so I’ve been blogging from my phone and unfortunately that’s how the postings come out no matter how I space or title them
  
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