Rosh Hashanah Menu

(in preliminary form)

Please don’t peek… yes, this is basically the same meal plan I made last year AND the year before. I just open up the word document, shuffle the meals around so it fits the format of the current year’s Yom Tov (in this case, adding a day for Shabbos), and DONE. The actual cooking is the tough part, but choosing what to eat has gotten so much easier since I kept track.

Looking back, I think I accidentally overwrote last year’s meal plan with a sad realization about my father. But you can see that two years ago was basically the exact same foodstuffs, maybe in a slightly different order.

Two years ago in September is when my father started getting really sick (in my head: “going downhill” but I translate it to nice-people-speak for my readers’ sake).

It is just awful not even thinking about him anymore. And – shameful secret – sometimes being with just my mother feels so tiresome without that buffer. Just as she buffered for him so he and I never actually had to talk about his illness, he listened to her, all day every day, so we didn’t have to.

What a lousy daughter.

Meal	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Shabbos
Day		G’s @ Mommy’s house DAIRY taking Neapolitan cake	Judy DAIRY Round Challah Salmon Blintz Loaf Sushi rice salad Broc salad Some kind of cookies Neapolitan cake	Just us MEAT Cholent chicken 3-colour pasta salad Whatever else – kugel?
Night	Mommy MEAT Simanim! Round Challah G fish Squash/Cider Soup Cabbage Rolls Mashed purple tatoes Carrot coins Beets Apple Kugel	Judy / N’s DAIRY Simanim! Round Challah G fish Soup – roasted? leek & tatoe Lasagna w/roasted zucchini	Mommy/Jeff MEAT Mommy-made ROAST meat Apple Kugel

Simanim:

• Pomegranate
• Dates
• Apples
• Fish head
• Carrot
• Beets
• Bee nest honey

Desserts:

Pareve -

• Honey cake
• Chocolate olive oil mousse
• Cinnamon buns (Auntie Sally's challah dough; recipe for sticky layer only) with cinnamon filling from here! (used Earth Balance to make it pareve)
  
• Some kind of cookies?

Dairy -

• Neapolitan Cake: 1 to take to Mommy; 1 to keep here
• Pumpkin cheesecake!