Archive for the ‘Kosher Food’ Category

Kosher Catering

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
 
Many Jewish food companies all over the world offer high-class kosher catering services. It is especially popular in the United States, where one can find kosher catering companies in almost every state and in every big city, like New York, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Boston, that are famous for having a big Jewish population.

Kosher catering services can be used not only for celebrations or parties. You can use catering services for every-day home or office meals, or in any other location you could think of. Top-class kosher catering services will usually offer you a huge number of locations that you can choose from. The Kosher catering menus are usually modern and innovative at the same time, offering top-class prepared food and service. When choosing your kosher caterer, make sure that he uses only the best and fresh ingredients for the meals and that all food is made according to kosher rules and traditions under strict supervision. The best kosher catering services usually offer delicious food cooked according to the most modern trends, but at the same time having an exquisite traditional Jewish flavor (usually called kosher fusion food).

Kosher catering is very often used for such events as Jewish weddings, traditional dinners, bar or bat mitzvah, corporate parties and other social events. When catering services are used for such big and important occasions in your life, it is necessary to find a reliable and professional kosher catering company. Make sure that the company employs event architects, as they are essential when it comes to organizing a significant event, which requires all details such as cars, flowers, tablecloths and cutlery, to be organized properly. A kosher catering company should understand your needs and desires perfectly to organize a memorable celebration that you would not be able to forget for many years. Such company will be able to organize an event completely, from start to finish, fit into your budget and make everything just like you wanted!

No matter how complicated or simple a kosher catering event is, a good company will be able to offer the right menu, the right venue and the right staff to make the function . Many people prefer choosing old companies that have been on the market for a long time and have proved the consistently high quality of their food and services. Check the recommendations on the website of a kosher catering company, find out if any of your friends know about it and try to learn, with what clients and in what venues the company has worked with before. High-quality kosher catering companies usually have experience in working not only with private parties, but also in organizing events in synagogues, big hotels, banquet halls and country clubs, and should have worked at least several big corporate clients. Make sure the company pays attention to every detail to meet your needs.

Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews food eating tradition

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Before we start talking about Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews difference food eating tradition, let’s differentiate and understand what the difference between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews is.

Sephardic Jews are from Mediterranean countries, like Spain and Portugal (“Sephard” is translated “Iberian Peninsula” from Hebrew). Sephardi are also subdivided into Sephardim (Jews from Spain and Portugal) and Mizrachim (Jews from Middle East and Northern Africa). The first Jewish settlers in America where Sephardic and organized their congregations in New York and Philadelphia. Most of the Jews in Israel are now Sephardic, particularly Mizrachim.

Jewish Food

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Jewish traditions come from many years in history and Jewish food, therefore, is very diverse. Over many centuries of the development of Jewish nation, Jewish food traditions have evolved and formed the traditional Jewish food and dietary traditions and laws, known in the world as Kashrut (or eating kosher).

Kashrut is a Jewish way of making eating not just a physical pleasure, but more a spiritual thing. It is a way that Jews use to follow Torah and live a Jewish life, as well as to show that you are a Jew. Jewish people believe that eating a very significant effect psychologically, physiologically and spiritually. Following kashrut and keeping the Jewish dietary laws causes you to think and make a choice every time you put something in your mouth. Jewish food traditions are passed from one generation to another.

KOSHER RECIPE: DESERT “SEMOLINA SOUFFLE”

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Ingredients:
1) 5 cups milk
2) 1.5 cups sugar
3) 3 tablespoons semolina
4) 50g. butter
5) Lemon peel
6) 9 eggs
7) Vanilla

Cooking according to Jewish cooking recipes:
Take three cups of milk and pour into a pot. Dissolve one cup of sugar in the milk. Set the pot with kosher food on fire and slowly stirring the contents, add 3 tablespoons of semolina. Cook the kosher deserts for 8-10 minutes until it boils down.
Take five eggs and separate the white from the yolk. Whip up the egg whites.
Cool down the kosher deserts from semolina and add 50gramms of butter, lemon peel and keep constantly stirring the kosher product, add 5 egg yolks one by one. Stirring the mixture of kosher food products, add the beaten egg whites.
Oil an oven pan and lay the mixture of kosher food products there. Strongly heat the oven. Bake the kosher palette for about 30 minutes.

One of the most famous kosher food recipes – LATKES

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Potato pancakes Latkes – is one of the most famous and popular dishes which you can find in Jewish cooking recipes.

Ingredients:

 1.Potatoes
2. Vegetable oil
3. Onions
4. Salt
5. If necessary, add eggs and flour

STUFFED KOSHER FISH

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Ingredients for preparing kosher fish:

  1. Rosemary
  2. Fish (carp or other kosher fish, which is suitable for stuffing)
  3. Onions
  4. Olive oil
  5. A few eggs
  6. Nuts
  7. Black pepper
  8. Sour milk
  9. Carrots
  10. Green olives
  11. Lemon
  12. Garlic
  13. Tomato puree
  14. Parsley
  15. Cilantro.

If necessary you can substitute sour milk with sour cream.

Cooking kosher fish:


Take the kosher fish (from 1,5 kg or more), clean, wash, add salt and pepper.

Cut into circles of three medium sized onions.

BEDOUIN KOSHER CHICKEN RECIPE

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

BEDOUIN KOSHER CHICKEN RECIPE

 This is one of the oldest and most popular kosher chicken recipes.
Ingredients:

  1. Kosher chicken
  2. Tomatoes
  3. Potatoes
  4. Carrots
  5. Sweet potatoes
  6. Garlic
  7. Onion
  8. Salt
  9. Ginger
  10. Turmeric
  11. Rice
  12. Kamoun

Cooking kosher chicken:
Peal and cut onion bulbs into eight pieces each. Take enough onion to cover the bottom of the pot. Add oil and stir fry the onions without bringing them up to readiness.

SWEET’N'SOUR KOSHER MEAT

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Ingredients for cooking kosher meat:

  1. Kosher meat 1.5kg
  2. 500g of prunes
  3. 100g of tomato puree
  4. 3-4 onions
  5. 5 potatoes
  6. 6-8 garlic cloves
  7. 1 cup of broth
  8. 1 spoon of honey
  9. 3 spoons of ginger
  10. 3 spoons of vinegar
  11. 4 spoons of brandy
  12. Sugar by taste
  13. Allspice, bay leaf

 

Cooking Jewish meat:

Meat should be cut into small pieces, and fried in vegetable oil with adding salt, put kosher meat into stewpot, pour broth and put the stew on low heat. The Jewish kosher food should be stewed for about 45 minutes.

Kosher breakfast and kosher breakfast items

Monday, September 14th, 2009

A nicely cooked kosher breakfast is the best way to start your day because this is the fuel that carries you around, literally, for the entire day. No wonder they say that your breakfast is the most important meal of your day so you should never take it lightly.

With a dedicated assortment of dietary precepts the ancient and wise Jews wanted to make sure that the kosher breakfast you have gives you not only nourishment, but also protection from pollutants that are present in naturally appearing foods.

Kids and children kosher foods

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Are you worried whether your kids are getting kosher food at school or at places children often frequent? There are certain restaurants and food joints that either sell kosher foods exclusively or offer them as an option, but you do often have to make an extra effort to make sure you kids have healthy kosher food on a regular basis.