New Pesach Cookbook - The Balabuste's Pesach Companion

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I think that's the name, anyway, it looks GOOD!

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I saw an ad for it in HaModia. Have you seen it? I was wondering if the recipes are for portions of like 144 like the regular Balabuste cookbook (I think I'm thinking of the same one - the one from the ladies from Nitra?). B'H, we have lots of guests, but not THAT many.

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No, it's a normal cookbook, with servings for a family.

It has pictures and looks specially good for those who don't use processed food.

it only if you eat potatoe starch and oil, I was gonna buy it but when I saw the recipees I relized I couldn't make anything.
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Yael should make a cook book ! with all the delicious recipes from imamother.com and sell it online. Surprised

Gold Member Joined: Mar 21 2006 Posts: 2052

That's the problem with being Lubavitch you cannot use anything besides for meat, chicken, potatoes, fruit, veg fish and eggs. By the time Pesach is over everyone is fed up. I seem to put cheap wine in everything to try and give the food flavour, also lemon juice. I am so used to using different spices and herbs during the year that the food just does not seem to be right.
My other problem is that my Husband grew up in a house that used loads of proceded foods and he is used to matzah brie, cocunut pyramids, lemon curd, etc... so he really gets fed, but I do try and sometimes you do take it a bit personnaly when you spend hours trying to make food look good and taste good and he turns his nose up at it. Crying or Very sad

Well never mind he will have to get used to it I guess. Very Happy

There's an online cookbook of 100 recipes or pages, I forget,from Nshei Chabad of London that can be downloaded. (Sorry I don't have the link, maybe I'll try to find it and edit it in.) and of course the purple Spice and Spirit Kosher for Passover Cookbook. The recipes are minhag Chabad. Especially the London one has no processed foods incl. potato starch AFAIK.

I don't know when anyone has a chance to patchke with all the fancy recipes anyway. I can't get beyond the basics. We are all happy with the chicken in sweet potato, carrot , onion, orange sauce, chicken soup with egg "lukshen", potato kugel and we eat our gefilte fish with or just plain cucumbers, or salad flavored with avocado, it works like oil. applesauce, and cut up fruit for dessert. And matza of course Very Happy

the rest of the time we are squeezing lemons and oranges.
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SY- im on a campaign to convince family that avocado is perfectly ok for pesach. I'm glad to hear you eat it Very Happy

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GR, don't be so set on your campaign, if people only want to eat what they had in Europe, then avoacado is out, along with pineapple and a host of other things.

I have that downloaded cookbook and like a few of their recipes!

it's true SaraG, my BIL won't use cucumbers, zuchinni, canteloupe. Maybe because it has seeds? Pumpkin, butternut squash seeds can perhaps be considered kitniyos? However, I don't know of any use for canteloupe, zuch. or cucumber seeds?

We never used tomatoes till recently, but we cut off all the peel and then some Laughing

, I wouldn't blanch them, because if anything's wrong with the peel, putting it in hot water would really "cook" it in, no?

does anyone know the story with Romaine lettuce? Is it OK to use after the Seder for salad? (for those who use only things that you peel) I thought, if you use it at the Seder, why not the rest of Pesach, but then again, I hear that many do not. My parents never did, but I never thought into it. They also didn't use tomato, when I was growing up. could be that my father learned his (Chabad)Pesach minhagim from certain eltere Chassidim. My grandparents were not Lubavitch (originally Wink

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My in-laws didn't either use all the salad stuff- tomato, cucmber, lettuce.

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Posted: Wed, Mar 22 2006, 12:36 pm Post subject:

BTW, the downloadable cookbook is on Shmais, http://www.shmais.com/cookbook.cfm

we use the romain lettuce after the seder but only the one from israel, with all the sand thats really expensive.

as for avocado's we eat them why would you eat them?

Posted: Wed, Mar 22 2006, 12:50 pm Post subject:

Is that romaine lettuce (Katif) available this year?

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48157

SY, you have to use your "klipah" pot for the tomatoes - put them in hot water, the the skin slips right off, in one piece!

As far as the lettuce, you're allowed to have that the days of the seder - I asked the rov.

Acording to him, you can't have:

Horseradish, raw or cooked - and lots of people mistakenly put it in their fish recipe

Walnuts - but you can have other kosher for passover nuts

Apples - not raw and not cooked either

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We use the leftover romaine lettuce from the seder for salads.

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Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48157

SY, can you make sure you get unwaxed tomatoes?

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Diamond Member Joined: Dec 27 2005 Posts: 2805

I have a real problem. My dh is much more lenient on things that I grew up not touching pesach (like lettuce other than seder) I am so used to doing things that way and he just doesn't get why I'm so obsessed wiht these things but I guess it's a matter of habit......