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4 ounces fettuccine-width rice stick noodles

1/4 cup peanut oil

1/4 cup tamarind paste

1/4 cup fish sauce (nam pla)

1/3 cup honey

2 tablespoons rice vinegar

1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes, or to taste

1/4 cup chopped scallions

1 garlic clove, minced

2 eggs

1 small head Napa cabbage, shredded (about 4 cups)

1 cup mung bean sprouts

1/2 pound peeled shrimp, pressed tofu or a combination

1/2 cup roasted peanuts, chopped

1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro

2 limes, quartered.



1. Put noodles in a large bowl and add boiling water to cover. Let sit until noodles are just tender; check every 5 minutes or so to make sure they do not get too soft. Drain, drizzle with one tablespoon peanut oil to keep from sticking and set aside. Meanwhile, put tamarind paste, fish sauce, honey and vinegar in a small saucepan over medium-low heat and bring just to a simmer. Stir in red pepper flakes and set aside.

2. Put remaining 3 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat; when oil shimmers, add scallions and garlic and cook for about a minute. Add eggs to pan; once they begin to set, scramble them until just done. Add cabbage and bean sprouts and continue to cook until cabbage begins to wilt, then add shrimp or tofu (or both).

3. When shrimp begin to turn pink and tofu begins to brown, add drained noodles to pan along with sauce. Toss everything together to coat with tamarind sauce and combine well. When noodles are warmed through, serve, sprinkling each dish with peanuts and garnishing with cilantro and lime wedges.

Yield: 4 servings.
Recipe - Pad Thai - NYTimes.com

Smokin'

Smokin' THis guy is a real foodie. Incredible.

After having relocated to SoCal, and finding myself predictably out of work, and having nothing better to do with my time, I began a great love affair with BBQ. In 2005, seemingly every food publication was talking BBQ. I learned that BBQ is not grilling, but instead is "low and slow" roasting in the presence of wood smoke. Turns out I had never had real BBQ in my life, but rather sauced meat that people called BBQ. But with everyone talking about it, it must be compelling. So I began doing it, to see why everyone was talking about it, to see why it was compelling. It wasn't just the ambience of the BBQ restaurants, because as I learned, there is no ambience. BBQ was frequently served in dirty, smoky holes-in-the-wall, charming in their way, but devoid of the props (fine china, white tablecloth, great table service) that propel many of us to try new restaurants. Instead, it's all about the food- solid, masculine, smoky meat, with sides like you'd get at home from your grandma if she had grown up and learned to cook in the '30s or '40s, Settlement Cookbook style. I'm talking about macaroni and cheese (obviously not on my menu), cole slaw and potato salad, baked potatoes, various vegetable casseroles, etc. And of course, Barbecue is typically served on paper, with a minimum of fuss.
Surprising as it may be, we discovered that the Jewish community, especially the women, don't seem to respond kindly to paper. Consequently, last week we switched to china/stoneware, inauthentic though it may be. More important to have customers. And, we now offer a wider variety of food than before, attempting to have at least 1 vegetarian soup available at all times. And since we love them, we've been featuring jook (Cantonese rice porridge, made with turkey broth) and/or pho (Vietnamese beef noodle soup), esoteric to the Jewish community at large, but widely eaten serious food among nonJews. They may not be BBQ, but they hit the spot- like BBQ, they're comfort foods from their respective cultures. Jook is something my wife, Jennifer, grew up with, being San Francisco Cantonese, while Pho is something so popular in Los Angeles culture that we could not help but wonder about its attraction, and having produced creditable pho at home, fell in love with it. Obviously, the pho we make is faux pho, in that we substitute other things for fish sauce. And we have provided vegetarian onion soup, minestrone, vegetable soup and/or split pea soup for those vegetarians who find themselves dragged to Smokin'! with their carnivorous cohorts. We don't always have vegetarian soups, though, so please call ahead of time to check.
For catering, we can try anything you like, given enough advance notice, from smoked duck to smoked rib roast, and even plenty of un-smoked food. Please be aware, though, that not everything is readily available, or in stock in our kitchen or even at the distributor. We're pleased to work with you to bring your concept beautifully to fruition. And in this difficult economic time, please be aware that BBQ catering is often much less expensive than standard catering. One reason for this is that BBQ is typically delivered in steam table pans, and served as a buffet. Often catering is not even done on-site, and is treated like standard take-out or delivery, which makes it inherently appropriate for casual affairs. But even when it's desired for a more formal affair, the food costs themselves are often less than other types of foods. Where table service is desired, we can work with other caterers or event planners to get the job done, though we do not have the staff to do it ourselves.
We love catering Purim parties!

Smokin'!
Take-out, Sit-down, Catering
12514 Burbank Blvd.
Valley Village, CA 91607

Tel: 818-752-6866

email: craig@ganeden.com

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Kosher Bento

Lunch in a Box: Building a Better Bento
Clickety Click Lunch Box Review -- Safe Lunch Boxes for Kids with Clickety Click

Save the Date - June 22, 2009 Swing for a Cure

Save the Date!
Monday, June 22, 2009

La Canada Flintridge Country Club
5500 Godbey Drive
La Canada Flintridge, CA 91011

Call (626) 792-3175 for more information
or e-mail info at andrewtorres.org
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Jock Muscle Recipes

Going to the gym again? Try these links. Try this recipe:

Chocolate Banana Crunch
1 serving of Jock Muscle Chocolate Whey
8 oz. of water or milk
1 banana
3 ice cubes
4 low fat chocolate wafers

Directions:
1. In a blender, mix chocolate whey protein and water/milk.
2. Add banana and ice cubes to blender, and blend on high 45 seconds.
3. Add chocolate wafers, then blend at low speed for 10 seconds.
4. Drink immediately.

Jock Muscle

The Blog

MYBLOG by Ouriel: My ShakShuka recipe

MYBLOG by Ouriel: My ShakShuka recipe: "1 white onion
Garlic
1 red pepper (option add 1 green pepper but not for me)
1 cup of sugar
concentrate of tomatoe
2 tomates
4 eggs (2/personn)
olive oil
Parsley, cumin, pepper, salt
1 large pan"

My Jewish Learning: Shakshuka Recipe

My Jewish Learning: Shakshuka Recipe
A recipe for one of the most popular egg dishes in Israel
By Joan Nathan
Reprinted with permission from The Foods of Israel Today (Knopf).



In 1930, Simon Agranat, the chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, wrote to his aunt and uncle in Chicago: "I had my eighth successive egg meal during my three-day jour­ney through the Emek (the valley)." Eggs have always been a main protein for people in Israel. When I lived in Jerusalem, I would make for my breakfast--or even for dinner--scrambled eggs with sauteed spring onions, fresh herbs, and dollops of cream cheese melted into the eggs as they were cooking...CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE

Bone marrow drive for Walter Furman Dec 7th at PJTC

Stem Cell Match Drive for this Sunday

Walter Furman currently is fighting Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, a particularly aggressive form of cancer affecting the production of healthy blood cells. The only cure for this disease is a bone marrow transplant. Bone marrow matches are most likely to be found within ethnic groups. There are currently over 700,000 Jewish donors in the various bone marrow registries across the world, but none have matched Walter’s profile.

Pasadena Jewish Temple will host a stem cell match drive this Sunday, December 7th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. All Jewish community members between the ages of 18 and 61 are encouraged to come in for testing. All that is required is registration in the National Bone Marrow Registry and a mouth swab. If a match is made, most likely the transfusion will involve giving blood only.

Walter is a social science researcher and on the faculty of UCLA. He is the husband of Dr. Miriam Shenfeld and the father of four daughters, Alissa, Becky, Caroline, and Kayla.

For more information, please contact the PJTC office, 626-798-1161. Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center is located at 1434 N Altadena Dr Pasadena, CA 91107 (626) 798-1161



Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center 

The Bagels of Los Angeles

Today's Los Angeles Times reports on Los Angeles BAGELS:

"Most people choose the bagel they grew up with," says Richard Friedman, and for most Southern Californians, whether they know it or not, that means the choice is bagels made either by Friedman or his oldest competitor.

Though there is a wealth of Jewish delis in Southern California, most of the best-known buy their bagels from either Friedman's 55-year-old Brooklyn Bagel Bakery or Steve Ustin's 61-year-old Western Bagel. If you eat at Nate 'n Al, Langer's, Art's or Factor's delis, you prefer Brooklyn's bagels. If you prefer Brent's or Mort's, you're a Western Bagel person.
Certainly there are other bagel bakeries in the area, including the Bagel Broker in the Fairfax District and the kosher Bagel Factory outlets on the Westside and in Torrance. And there are a few delis that bake their own, including Junior's and Canter's.CLICK HERE FOR The bagel: an L.A. story - Los Angeles Times

A related story {The best bagels in the Los Angeles area - Los Angeles Times) lists all those bagel places

The Bagel Broker. 7825 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 931-1258. www.bagelbroker.com. 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday; 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The Bagel Factory. 8986 Cadillac Ave., Los Angeles, (310) 837-6046; 3004 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, (310) 477-8460; 21157 Hawthorne Blvd., Torrance, (310) 540-2077. www.thebagelfactoryinc. 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday; 5:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Brooklyn Bagel Bakery. 2217 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, (213) 413-4114. Open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.

Western Bagel. Headquarters with retail store, 7814 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, (818) 786-5847. www.westernbagel.com. Ten retail stores with varying hours, see website for details

...And here's YELP

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Save the date: From the Exile is pleased to announce that Roz Rothstein, founder and Executive Director of Stand With Us will speak at Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center on September 10, 2008.

The opinions expresses in From the Exile are not the opinions of Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center or PJTC. This is an independent blog.

Jamie Oliver - Recipes Sicilian Street Salad

CLICK HERE FOR FULL RECIPE

serves Serves 4 to 6
ingredients
• 500g/1lb 2oz new potatoes, scrubbed
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 3 handfuls of mixed crunchy salad leaves, e.g. radicchio, rocket, romaine
• a small handful of fresh mint, leaves picked and torn
• 1 bulb of fennel, halved and finely sliced, herby tops reserved
• optional: ½ a Cedro lemon, sliced wafer thin

for the Sicilian blood orange dressing
• juice of 1 blood orange
• 3 tablespoons good-quality white wine vinegar or herb vinegar
• extra virgin olive oil
a good pinch of dried oregano
• 2 tablespoons capers, washed if using salted, chopped if large
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper


Serve de 4 a 6
ingredientes
• 500g/1lb 2 onças novas batatas, scrubbed
• sal marinho e pimenta preta recém terreno
• 3 handfuls Crunchy salada mista de folhas, por exemplo, radicchio, foguete, Romaine
• um pequeno punhado de hortelã fresca, deixa colhidos e rasgada
• 1 bulbo de funcho, finamente cortada para metade e, herby tops reservados
• opcionais: ½ Cedro um limão, cortado bolacha fina

para o siciliano sangue laranja vestir
• suco de laranja 1 sangue
• 3 colheres de boa qualidade vinagre de vinho branco ou erva vinagre
• Azeite virgem extra
uma boa pitada de orégano secos
• 2 colheres capers, lavado se utilizando salgados, chopped se grandes
sal marinho e pimenta preta recém terreno

Southwestern Pulled Brisket Beef - Slow cooker

This is an adjusted recipe for From Food Network Kitchens, adjusted for Kashrut purposes. This works well in a slow cooker... See also Step-by-step photos

3 pounds beef brisket
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
5 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
1 Spanish onion, halved and thinly sliced
1 tablespoon chili powder
2 teaspoons ground coriander
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 cups water
1 (14 1/2-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, with their juices
2 whole canned chipotle chiles en adobo
2 bay leaves
3 tablespoons molasses
Soft Parve sandwich buns
Pickled jalapenos

Season the beef generously with salt and pepper, to taste. Heat a large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Add the oil and heat just until beginning to smoke. Add the meat and cook, turning once, until browned on both sides, about 10 minutes total. Transfer the meat to the slow cooker; leave the skillet on the heat.
Add garlic, onion, chili powder, coriander, and cumin to drippings in the skillet and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add vinegar and boil until it's almost gone, scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Stir in water and pour the mixture over the brisket. Crush the tomatoes through your fingers into the slow cooker; add the tomato juices, chipotles, bay leaves, and molasses. Cover the cooker, set it on LOW, and cook the brisket until it pulls apart easily with a fork, about 8 hours.

To serve, leave the meat in the slow cooker and use 2 forks to pull it apart and stir it evenly into the sauce; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Remove and discard bay leaves. Pile the meat on sandwich buns and serve with jalapenos. (This is also great rolled up in parve tortillas, available in SoCal with a heckher at Ralphs, as well as at the Kosher stores.)

Golden oldie Kugel Blog

February 15, 2007

Unanimous opinion knocks out Ninth Circuit decision that
time-barred all Kugel related disease litigation in the Golden State
Boston, MA:

BACKGROUND

Kugel companies benefited from a decade of legal immunity from claims by injured schnapps Kugel addicts from 1988-1998. After the legislature corrected this situation, the first four trials against Kugel companies brought by injured Kugel fressers resulted in findings of industry liability and punitive damages. These were:

February 1999: Kook, Rav., v. PJTC Great Kugel Cookoff Contest - $51.5 million

March 2000: Og v. R.J. Reynolds and PJTC Great Kugel Cookoff Contest - $21.75 million

June 2001: Hagar v. PJTC Great Kugel Cookoff Contest - $3.05 billion

October 2002: Amalek v. PJTC Great Kugel Cookoff Contest - $28 billion

Although the amount of punitive damages was subsequently reduced and the second of these cases, Ritual Committee vs. Saturday Minyan of PJTC, is being retried right now in San Francisco after being overturned on a technicality , it was clear that well-informed California juries were to be deeply feared by the Kugel industry.

In 2000, an injured Kugel fresser and correspondence law school student named A. L. sued on her own behalf and represented himself on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The appeal interrupted the encouraging start of California Kugel litigation ( Soliman v. PJTC Great Kugel Cookoff Contest Inc., 311 F.3d 966, (2002). The resulting decision meant that sick Kugel addicts could not sue for their injuries because the statute of limitations began to run at the time the Kugel fresser realized or should have realized that he/she/it was addicted. Because most schnapps -caused diseases manifest themselves decades after the victim is addicted to the addictive tsuris in the product, virtually all pending cases were be time-barred and attorneys could no longer represent severe indigestion-stricken customers of the Big Kugel, PJTC, PJTC Ritual Committee or the Great Kugel Cookoff.

The California Supreme Court accepted a transfer of 2 cases pending before the appeals court that ruled in Eliahu v. PJTC Great Kugel Cookoff Contest and REDACTED v. PJTC Great Kugel Cookoff Contest . While the Court's rulings in regard to the two plaintiffs, Mr. Eliahu and Ms. REDACTED, are mixed, the importance of today's unanimous opinion and the reason the case was taken up by the state's highest court, is to dismiss the peculiar notion that the addiction that usually occurs within weeks of Kugel- initiation marks the start of the 2 year statute of limitations for filing a personal injury claim.

Justice REDACTED, joined by Justice REDACTED, writes:
We reject the proposition advanced by defendants, based on Sisterhood v. PJTC Great Kugel Cookoff Contest , Inc. (9th Cir. 2002) 311 F.3d 966 (M & J), that the statute of limitations should have commenced on the physical injury claims as soon as the minyan discovered or should have discovered each was addicted to schnapps.

COMMENTARY


REDACTED Professor of Law at Northeastern University in Boston, noted that, "the California Supreme Court just changed the light from red to green and a high volume of Kugel litigation traffic is about to roar into California Courtrooms."

REDACTED, Director of the Kugel Products Liability Project at Northeastern University School of Law, stated that, "contrary to many analysts proclamations, the time is ripe for a major resurgence in individual schnapps cases.

COLESLAW

Alton Brown has this complicated recipe, but my cousin gave me a simple one:

Coleslaw Recipe courtesy Alton Brown
Show: Good Eats
Episode: Salad Daze II: The Long Arm of the Slaw


1/2 head green cabbage, thinly sliced
1/2 head red cabbage, thinly sliced
1 carrot, thinly sliced
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 fluid ounces plain yogurt
2 fluid ounces mayonnaise
1 tablespoon pickle juice
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 tablespoon chives, chopped
Kosher salt, as needed
1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper

But this is a simpler way to do it.

My cousin's simple recipe
Thin slice some green cabbage
Put into the bowl
Sprinkle white wine vinegar on it
Add a little mayonaise.
Salt and pepper if you want
Stir with fork

Voila'

I guess you can add shredded carrots or red cabbage, but I like it plain.

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to do list: Skip the pork, go to Jeff's Sausages and Kosher Club (20lb briskets)

It's BBQ season. Time to head out to Jeff's Gourmet Glatt Kosher Sausage Factory & Deli Meats, Los Angeles, California8930 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
310-858-8590

Relish the joy of finely cured and cooked meats, and the thrill of creative salads and slaws. At Jeff's Gourmet we make everything from scratch, using the finest meats, fresh herbs, stocks and California wines.