Yom Kippur Survival Kit
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PrintBlintz Soufflé
–Adapted by Miriam Gray
In blender:
1 stick of margarine or butter
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups sour cream
1/2 cup sugar (cook’s note: I don’t use that much)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon orange juice
Pour mixture over 2 packages (not defrosted) frozen blintzes (cheese or fruit). Bake in greased 7 x 11 pan at 350 degrees for about an hour — check after 45 minutes. You don’t want the top to be watery.
Quiche
–Eileen Schneider
1/2 pkg. frozen vegetables, defrosted (use chopped spinach — drain all the water — or chopped broccoli)
1/2 bag shredded cheese, 6 - 8 oz.
Frozen deep dish pie crust
1 1/4 cups milk
3 eggs
bit of flour
Prick bottom of pie shell with a fork. Drain veggies well. Place on bottom of crust, spreading around. Toss cheese with about a teaspoon of flour (keeps from sticking) and mix in with veggies. Blend milk and eggs in blender with any spices you want. I might put in a little dried minced onion, basil, garlic, whatever. Pour into crust. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes until golden on top. Test by putting knife in, when it comes out clean.
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Beth’s tips for a post-Yom Kippur fete
Preparing for a break-the-fast meal should not be overwhelming. It is as simple as being organized and ready to go with plans in place to make an organized break-the-fast happen.
First, make a workable list and follow it. If you are a list-writer normally and already have several in your kitchen, write this list on a really bright piece of paper, so you can find it easily. Think about your guests and their diets. Is there anyone who needs to be dairy-free? gluten-free? low sugar or low salt, etc.? People with special needs appreciate the extra care.
From Ramadan to Rosh Hashanah
California chasid says Islam has much to teach about repentance
For Lee Weissman, a Breslov chasid in Irvine, Calif., the onset of the High Holy Days capped a spiritual journey he began two months earlier with the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and continued a month ago with the start of the Jewish month of Elul.
Weissman — a teacher at the Tarbut v’Torah Community Day School in Irvine and a scholar of Southeast Asian religions — says similar themes run through Ramadan and Elul, traditionally a month of repentance, charity, and extra prayers leading up to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. And, he says, his close ties with local Muslims helped to put him in the “correct” frame of mind to begin his own month of penitence and prayer in preparation for the Days of Awe.
LOS ANGELES — You didn’t let Maimonides catch you napping on Rosh Hashanah, did you?
His famous quote, “Awake, awake, you slumberers from your sleep, inspect your actions and return” — usually found in the High Holy Days prayer book before the sounding of the shofar — is meant as the ultimate shluf alarm, his righteous tap on your shoulder.
But what if while sitting in the much longer services this Yom Kippur you should “accidentally” hit the snooze button and head off into the realm of somnambulant psalms?
Think of it as fourth and long
Football can offer strategies for the personal struggle of repenting
LOS ANGELES — Yom Kippur, the fourth quarter of the High Holy Days, is coming and time is running out. Our seats are waiting, the gates are closing.
Each year we look for a new way to prep for the day: Could football offer a strategy?
Though Yom Kippur certainly is no day for sports, like football it does have a time limit, sundown, and a playbook: the machzor. There is even a halftime and cheerleaders — liturgical cheerleaders, that is.
It’s a day when the liturgy seems to ask: Are you going to run, pass, or pray?
