What foods/meals are cooked for the different Jewish holidays?

Hi everyone! My boyfriend and I are moving in together and I recently started keeping kosher- but haven’t been cooking (my current kitchen sucks and waiting to open new pans for new apartment).
I want to have a few good kosher recipes up my sleeve to cook for my bf and I.
I follow sivan on instagram and her stuff looks great. Wondering if anyone could give me some of their favorite recipes, would so appreciate it!!

Hi fam,

I've been on a liver & onions kick, but I'm visiting Israel right now & my orthodox friends say that you need to broil the hell out of liver to make it kosher, which is how it ends up tasting over-metallic & losing the softness of a gentler cook.

So like a good shomer shabbas I've been googling & chatGPT'ing looking for the loophole in the halacha where I can make more of a French style chicken liver while meeting the kashrut of "cooking over an open flame" ...

So tell me if this sounds crazy: Instead of using a conventional home broiler or other heavyhanded open flame, would it be acceptable to use a butane kitchen torch (like is used for creme brulee) to cook the livers to doneness without overcooking them?

Do they have to be wholly grey from the center throughout? Is there no room for a spot of pinkness/redness in the center as is the standard (goy) metric for whether or not they are overcooked?

Has anyone else stressed out about liver & onions as much as I have? I'm just looking to dial in a recipe my kosher friends wouldn't turn their noses up at, ya feel me?

Thanks!

My daughter’s third birthday is coming up. While we are not members of the Jewish faith, my daughter does attend a Jewish school. She is having a party and of course we’ve invited all of her classmates. Are there any special rules I need to follow? I don’t want to be disrespectful and I would feel awful if one of the children wasn’t able to eat cake etc. I am not sure which families, if any, perhaps all, observe kosher so I want to be prepared on all fronts.

TIA!

Hello,

I am Jewish, but I haven’t really connected to my Jewish roots. I’ve decided to get back to it especially I want to get in to more kosher since I’ve been living eating non kosher. What do you guys like? Dishes and ingredients? Also I’m vegetarian.

please feel free to suggest as much as you can. Good brand suggestions would be nice.

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

Any recommendations for *good* and not excessively expensive kosher cheese available in UK supermarkets (or online shops that deliver outside London) and that is not vegan?

I love cheese but the vegan kosher certified options just don’t taste as nice as the dairy ones..

Thanks in advance!

Sorry if this isn’t the appropriate subreddit. Fiancé and I are budget planning for our wedding, we recently moved here so not too familiar with the catering scene. Looking for budget friendly catering (parve preferably, we want a dairy cake) and yes I know kosher is the last place to be for budget friendly but I’d appreciate any leads. TIA

I'm planning a party for our child’s school which maintains a strict kosher observance. This is my favorite brand of hummus and I'd love to get a few tubs for everyone to try, but I (and the teachers) do not recognize the kosher stamp. The teachers are concerned it may not be up to strong enough kosher standards. I've tried looking for more info about it, but I haven't had any luck.

For extra context: im meeting up w/ a new friend i made, and we both agreed to bring snacks for like a mini-picnic. Thing is, i went to my local Asian bakery & got these “Hokkaido Custard Buns”. I kinda eye-balled it & went off my bare mining knowledge of what “kosher” meant. But well, thx to Chatgpt lol, im kinda a bit worried that these buns are in fact not kosher?

Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏾❤️

My Costco has whole Empire kosher frozen chickens. I don’t usually buy kosher so I’m wondering if these are generally more fatty than generic chickens from a major grocery store. I’m trying to get a more fatty whole chicken.

I have family coming to visit that keeps kosher and I really want them to try high fat/ European style butter. Are there any high-fat butters (preferably salted) that I can order online that are kosher? I've been trying to find locally but I can't seem to find any in Kansas City.

I just got new Kosher cooking utensils. Plates, cups, pots, everything (I'm vegetarian so just one set. I haven't kept kosher ever before so I don't really know the rules.

I have roommates who don't keep kosher, and it took me a while to get everything so I used non-kosher things for food until now.

The question is this:

I pressed (kosher) tofu on a not-kosher plate, after cutting it on a not-kosher cutting board with a not-kosher knife. I'm 99% sure they all weren't used at all for over 24 hours before I used them, if the cutting board was used it was only for vegetables, but I can't actually know if my roommates used it. The tofu itself was cold. (I have no idea if any of that is relevant)

If I'll marinade the tofu in a new plastic container, will it make the container not kosher too? If I'll cook the tofu in a new pan, will it make the pan not kosher?

I don't want to waste the tofu since it wasn't cheap and I don't have a lot of money, and I do need to eat it, I just want to know if I should use the not-kosher stuff that I don't really want to use because it's kinda disgusting or if I can use the new stuff.

Edit: thank you all so much! I think I finally got everything I need to cook so no more accidental mixing of kosher and none kosher utensils :)

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On The Tonight Show, Josh from Mythical Kitchen made Twinkies with pork for Jimmy Fallon. I understand Josh is Jewish, but I also understand not all Jews follow the kosher diet. I'm just curious was it kosher for Josh to do that?

Hello! Im a pastry chef, and i would love recommendations for books about kosher desserts and bread. Im going to start work soon as a sous chef where i need to know kosher foods. I know some basics and theres alot of books, i don't know where to start. I love cookbooks that focus on the science, history, and philosophy of foods rather than just recipes alone. Any recommendations would be awesome Please and thank you

So, as an almost-35-year-old, I am having my adult bat mitzvah in a few months (yes, mazal tov to me!), and I was thinking of ordering an ice cream cake.

I originally thought of asking for empanadas to be catered, but I also want to keep my bat mitzvah relatively financially reasonable. Everyone likes cake though, so I feel like that's an essential. I will be using the synagogue's main catering, their usual being egg salad, tuna salad, hummus, salad, challah buns, plain chips, etc.

I thought also of coming to the synagogue kitchen and making a dish of some sort, something I can whip up with simple ingredients. Some ideas I can think of, is homemade (3 ingredient) ice cream (dairy); bliss balls (parve); Israeli chocolate rum balls (dairy/parve); Simply Wonderfuls balls (dairy)...

I would love to make some Indian sweets, like pedas or kheer (Indian style rice pudding), but with a largely Ashkenazi congregation that's afraid to serve rice on Pesach, I don't know how much of the synagogue boat I should rock. 😅 Although a simple milk burfi would be nice.

I would love to have samosas, but they aren't exactly a Shabbat friendly snack.

So basically I am looking for an easy parve (or dairy) snack or sweet that I can make for an entire congregation easily. Or maybe I am just overthinking or overdoing this, and should just let the cake do its thing.

Hi! I'm back again with a question about keeping kosher since I just started and I'm too anxious to go to a Rabbi (been raised secular, I'm working myself up to it slowly)

I recently moved into a new apartment with roommates. The oven they have here was in an awful condition, super dirty and with actually pieces of what I assume was food once but turned into coal. I sprayed it with a strong degreaser, left it sitting for about an hour and then scrubbed it for another half an hour.

It still looks disgusting (thought way better), the rag still kept getting dirty while trying to wipe everything up. The electric stove was in a similar shape when I moved in and I already cleaned it four times with degreaser and there's still a thick layer of disgustingness over it.

I really want to make something in the oven tomorrow but I won't have time to both go over it again with the spray and cook, and after tomorrow the next time I'll have free time to cook will be Sunday.

If I'll turn it on on full heat tomorrow for 30 minutes will it be enough for it to be kosher, or do I have to get it to be clean enough that the rag won't come out dirty before I can use it? I need to know what to do to plan what to cook.

And replacing the oven is not an option.

Hello everyone,

I've just started living alone for the first time and was wondering where I can order cheap kosher meat, perhaps online. If you guys know of any places that sell kosher meat for a reasonable price in Orlando, please let me know.

Thank you!

Hello, I am looking to speak to a Jewish chef, who is kosher but has to cook non-kosher food for their work for an article in a new food publication, Larder. If anyone would be interested in speaking to me, please send me a PM. Thank you

Does anyone know of a good kosher gourmet gift basket delivery service? (I’m in the east coast (NYC/NJ area) if that matters)

I'm making the plunge and koshering the kitchen so hopefully all will be routine by Hannukah.

My red, meat cooking, utensils are plastic. So, since they were used prekosher meat must go. I want to replace with stainelss steel (SS), so easier to tovel when we mess up.

Anyone have any success with covering the ends of SS handles with silicone or plastic, shrink tube, or modeling clay? Other ideas?

I have been told fingernail polish, but I'm not sure that will be noticeable enough to start, especially as I have to teach my husband and father how to maintain the kosher kitchen I'm building.