Real recipes approved by my family and my most unforgiving critic me. I am not a foodie, nor am I a chef I am a guy who likes to eat. I used to joke I don’t drink, smoke, gamble, do drugs or cheat on my wife. Food was my weakness. I eat when I am happy, sad, stressed etc. My wife says that I cook what I want to eat. That is true. Here are the recipes that I like to eat.
Several years ago I decided I needed a hobby and I started cooking. My family is gluten intolerant. They are not celiac but we have Celiac disease on my wife side of the family. So whenever I cook a meal for the family it has to be gluten free meal.
We keep a Kosher house and are shomer Shabbat. Being shomer Shabbat means that we keep the mitzvot, or commandments, related to the Sabbath, which starts on Friday at twilight and finishes on Saturday after sunset.
One of the traditions for an observant Jewish home is having a nice meal on Friday night and Saturday lunch. Some have compared the Sabbath meal as to having two American Thanksgiving meals a week.
The meals I make for the Sabbath are always gluten free meals, so we can enjoy them as a family. What is Kosher Keeping Kosher
The word “kosher” has become associated with the connotation of “proper” or “acceptable” in English. However, kosher laws derive from the Bible and are expounded upon in the Talmud and other Jewish tradition codes. Breaking it down to the basics there are three types of Kosher.
Meat
Dairy
Pareve
Foods that are meat are either chicken, beef or lamb, dairy is any food that has dairy in and Pareve are foods which have neither meat or dairy such as fruits, vegetables, eggs and other items with neither milk or meat in them.
As with any religious discussion there are differences as to the level of Kashrut one follows. For this site I am keeping it simple all the recipes and products that I link to have a Kosher certifications that my family abides by. If you have specific questions you can ask my or please talk to your Rabbi as I am not a Rabbinic. If you are looking for a good online resource check out the Chicago Rabbinical Council they have a lot of useful information.
As I said I am not a chef. I never went to culinary school but my Grandmother was Fay the cook at the Academy the Jewish high school in Chicago for decades. Ask anyone who went there in the 1970’s through the 1980’s and they will remember her. While in high school I would hang out with her before school and during many of my free periods. I guess besides for eating a lot of food some of her skills rubbed off on me.
There is a Yiddish word “shitteryne”. It is not a swear word rather it means cooking by sight and hand. She would joke that she was a shitty cook. Which could not have been further from the truth.
My recipes for gluten free meals follow the “shitteryne” school of cooking. But so the recipes are repeatable I give measurements when applicable. My family and I have approved every gluten free recipe that I post. I will give credit to others for their recipes, several were made by me or I have modified over time using elements by combining several recipes.
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