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From a budgeting perspective, it’s all too easy to worry about how keeping Shabbat ADDS to the budget. What with all the chicken soup and brisket and dining rooms full of people. But I’ve found that on a personal (dare I even say spiritual) level, keeping Shabbat actually has the opposite effect: It can make [...]
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Plata. Blech. Shabbat hot plate. Call it what you will, my friend Tziporah asked on Facebook if “any of your readers have suggestions on warming trays for Shabbos/Yom Tov? We need one for Pesach.” Perfect timing – because ours is biting the bullet big time and we’ll be in the market as well. I think [...]
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I must start this post by fessing up that my husband and I are not big drinkers. On rare occasions, he’ll do a l’chaim at the Shabbat table, mostly out of peer pressure. The truth is, we just prefer the taste of grape juice, so 99% of the time, that’s what we serve for kiddush. [...]
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We do very well saving money during the week by eating a mostly vegetarian diet. Come Friday, however, not only is my family hankering for some M.E.A.T., but I also feel the need to put out a nicer-than-normal spread lichvod Shabbat (in honor of the Sabbath). But at $8.99/lb for chicken breasts and $12.99/lb for [...]
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I was torn, this week, between two opposing themes: Either a favorite “splurge” (caloric or financial) that you indulge in on Shabbat, or a frugal recipe that graces your Shabbat table – and no one is the wiser. As you can see, I went with the “splurge” theme. It just made sense, since we are [...]
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Hello recipe exchanging friends. Thanks so much for picking up my slack last week and sharing some wonderful comfort food recipes. This week’s recipe exchange theme has been inspired by a food blogger that I really like, Chick in the Kitchen. On Twitter yesterday, she shared a split pea soup & flanken recipe that she [...]
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If you’re new to Kosher on a Budget, every week I pick a different theme or topic, and share one of my frugal recipes, and ask my readers to do this same. It’s great fun – kind of like a virtual Sisterhood cookbook! You may recall an earlier challah-themed exchange, when I shared my Rosh [...]
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I know I said that this week’s recipe exchange would be about beans and lentils. Oops! I changed my mind! We had our first frost of the year last night and I’m so excited that cholent is on the menu for tomorrow. In my enthusiasm, I just had to blog about it. I’ll do beans [...]
