Kosher cooking help .

Loanranger

Linda McCartney sausages.

jobbingmusician

My all time favourite veggie recipe, which can v easily become vegan (although probably not necessary for kosher)

Make a sort of (savoury) cheescake pie base by combining crushed up almonds, butter and a bit of garlic. Bake blind but keep an eye on it.

Make a thick mushroom sauce, and fill the pie crust. (Mushrooms in butter, stir in flour for thickening, dilute with full cream milk)

Serve and sit back to masses of applause!

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If she's staying with you, she's not devout (the Yiddish term is frum) and is using the general rules of 'what to do if visiting someone and there's no kosher food around'. If she was devout, it would also cover the cutlery and cooking utensils.. she's not that bothered about 'keeping' kosher.

It might help to know where you are? I've lived in places with different availabilities of kosher food.

Supermarkets sometimes have kosher food hiding in the frozen sections - mine does some great chicken nuggets. Also, you may find some kosher food in the 'ethnic' section - e.g. kosher powdered chicken soup.

It might help to know that it is almost the festival of Purim; this involves dressing up and drinking lots! If you had the time to bake you could make Hamantaschen - http://www.thekitchn.com/food-lovers-guide-to-purim-200999

bluenoseam

This is not a "veggie" problem, this is a religious dietery requirement issue - it's not that they won't eat meat, but there are strict rules surrounding it. That'll often extend to the utensils used to prepare meals so as to completely avoid any chance of any rules being broken. It's something that in all honesty I'd have expected to be told prior to the guests arriving in order to have a plan in place - you've kinda been sold out here!

Best & safest bet is (if possible!) to speak to the young lady in question & find out what if anything you can do to help in the situation, explaining that it's not something you're overly familiar with. Can't say fairer than that as the alternatives (a new set of pans & utensils etc) aren't viable given the fact it's only going to be a couple of days.

silvercar

Fish is easy to cook and virtually all fish apart from shellfish are kosher.

Salmon is easy, just through it in the over with a dab of butter.

Most supermarkets sell pieces of fish with cooking instructions.

Depends how particular she is about ordinary cheese as a lot contain animal rennet. Vegetarian cheese is usually available in supermarkets.

fed_up_and_stressed

Artytarty wrote: »

I don't think she can be that devout or this trip would have been impossible for the reasons you've mentioned.
I've settled on veg spag Bol.
Butternut squash and coconut milk curry with naan bread
and baked potatoes with salad, baked beans or ratatouille and cheese for those that want it.

Last night she did have some shop bought hot chocolate fudge cake for dessert.

Naan pretty much always contains milk go for poppadoms instead.

fed_up_and_stressed

silvercar wrote: »

Fish is easy to cook and virtually all fish apart from shellfish are kosher.

Salmon is easy, just through it in the over with a dab of butter.

Most supermarkets sell pieces of fish with cooking instructions.

Depends how particular she is about ordinary cheese as a lot contain animal rennet. Vegetarian cheese is usually available in supermarkets.

Butter is dairy, which she says she won't eat.

Artytarty

I'm in Northern Ireland.
There was a mix up and I ended up getting different students to the ones I was expecting, hence no warning.
I agree that she's is adopting the "how to behave when visiting rules"
I'm not complaint, she is trying hard not to be any bother, but I don't want her to go hungry and I'd rather not risk offence by serving meat separately for the rest of us.
You have given some great ideas here, thanks, I particularly like the look of the nutty cheese and onion tart and I'm going to investigate Ringos desert option in a moment!

GlasweJen

Salt and vinegar crisps are kosher, not allowed cheese and onion - I always hated this growing up.

She does seem to be making up her own rules here. If she's happy to eat vegetarian spaghetti bolognese made in pans used to cook non-kosher meat then she should be happy to eat dairy. There are lovely traditional dairy recipes in Jewish culture strictly for meals that don't contain meat (fish doesn't count as meat, or at least it doesn't if you're reform).

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GlasweJen wrote: »

Salt and vinegar crisps are kosher, not allowed cheese and onion - I always hated this growing up.

She does seem to be making up her own rules here. If she's happy to eat vegetarian spaghetti bolognese made in pans used to cook non-kosher meat then she should be happy to eat dairy. There are lovely traditional dairy recipes in Jewish culture strictly for meals that don't contain meat (fish doesn't count as meat, or at least it doesn't if you're reform).

Blimey - I've seen LOADS of people's interpretation of how they 'keep kosher', and yes, they make up their own rules. What is this girl meant to do, starve? She probably had no idea there was a tiny Jewish community and no access to Kosher food. She's using "away from home" rules - you have no idea what rules she keeps at home, and she may keep them differently when eating out.

It's a wibbly-wobbly, occasionally hypocritical way of doing things, but it is what it is. Me? I like bacon, but I wouldn't go eating it at my grandams house or she'd kick me out. Any food I'd take there would be kosher whether I liked it or not.

You might take a look in the Asda on Shore road, off the M2. It looks like the closest supermarket to the synagogue (doesn't mean this is where the community lives though...). The only people that would really know where to get kosher food would be the local Chabad. Here's some phone numbers - http://www.kosherdelight.com/IrelandSynagogues.shtml

You can get a guide to what snacks are kosher here - http://www.kosher.org.uk/sites/default/files/2015%20KNG%20Single%20Pages_2.pdf

If you stick to vegetarian you should generally be fine.