Yom Teruah Dinner

Leviticus 23:24

“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you have a rest, a remembrance of blowing of trumpets, a set-apart gathering.

Thought I'd share this years Yom Teruah Dinner with ya'll:

Apple-Crusted Salmon found @ Whole Foods Market

Garlic Broccoli found @ All Recipes

Green olives stuffed with Garlic

Black olives

Cinnamon & Spice Challah found @ Look Who's Cookin

Grape Juice

and for dessert:

Apple caramel pie topped with home made vanilla whipped cream
(everything from the pie crust to the caramels are made from scratch)
Apple Caramel Pie found @ All Recipes

Caramels found @ All Recipes

We would like to spend Yom Teruah outside perhaps at a near by part,

sounding the shofar, singing, reading and praying.

Rejoicing in our Creator and his Messiah!!

Our Shabbat Dinner

Shabbat Shalom!

Have a peaceful rest!

A dear friend requested that I post about our Shabbat Dinners. So this

is an attempt to do so...

Our Shabbat Dinner is a special dinner that is set apart just like the Shabbat which is

the seventh day of the week.

Preparation for this dinner starts early in the morning with baking two

loaves of Challah Bread, making a desert, and doing all the

cleaning because on Shabbat we don't want to work, it's a day of

long awaited rest!

Of coarse many wives simply buy their Challah bread, (our

stores don't stock it, go figure) and

with the Challah bring home a pie to pop in the oven. My dh

prefers home made pies, yes dear it's my pleasure to

make you a home made pie :-)

Our Shabbat dinner isn't like the traditional 'Jewish Shabbat Dinner' if there

is an actual traditional one. I've found through the years that

Yahweh will lead each family if they ask him to, to observe

Shabbat in a way that pleases him.

The Table

Our dinner table is set apart that is to say we don't set

it the same way as during the week, we use a table cloth,

cloth napkins, two candles, wine glasses (for the grape juice)

we have only one set of dishes but if I had a set of fine China

I would use it.

Our Menu
I try to cook a 'special dinner' on the eve of Shabbat (Friday evening)

Usually I cook either Fish or Chicken as our main dish.

In the summer we do a nice salad with corn on the cob or

some other garden fresh veggie.

The vegetable dish varies.

Two loaves of Challah Bread,

butter for the bread,

Grape Juice

and

a home made desert.

Blessing the Meal

We all sit around the table while dh says the blessing.

Some people have a regular blessing they say, dh just prays

what's on his heart.

Then my girls get to light the candles :-)

As they light the candles the say:

'Blessed are thou O Yah our Elohim

King of the Universe.

Who sanctified us and commanded us

to keep the Shabbat

Blessed be your name forever!'

everyone says together:

'HalleluYah

Praise Yahweh!'

Dinner begins with worship music playing

in the background.

Oh I forgot to mention I try to keep

worship music on during the day to keep

me focused and in a spirit of worship.

Some families say the blessing after

the meal because often times in the Bible

after Yahweh provided for his people

they would forget about him, in

saying the blessing after the

meal shows that they didn't

forget about him. Nice symbolism!

Making (or purchasing) two loaves of Challah bread

symbolizes 'the gathering of manna' in the

wilderness. Yahweh commanded that

they gather twice as much so they

would not have to work on Shabbat.

The loaves also represent the

bread of life our Messiah

who died for us that

we might live.

When giving the prayer of 'Thanks' often

the loaves are lifted up and the prayer of

thanks is give (we don't do this, but it's nice to do)

then the the scripture is read in Exodus 16:22-23

Just before we eat everyone raises their wine glass

and toast each other by saying:

Shabbat Shalom!

After the meal we quickly clean up trying to beat

the sun before it sets, which now, since we set the clocks

back an hour, the sun sets much earlier. After clean up we read, listen to music,

and relax.

.

Many have the husband/daddy pray for the

children speak blessing on them, which is

what I want dh to start doing. He

also prays for his wife and pronounces

blessing on her.

I read somewhere that

studies show Jewish

children tend to excel in their studies

and have

a positive attitude and grow

into being successful adults in life

believing

they are blessed and walking

in their blessings, the one

thing that was

found different in

their lives apart from

others was this one simple act of blessing

them on each Shabbat

of their young lives.

Many families go to Shabbat Service in the

evening and on Shabbat (saturday) but we

don't because we there isn't

a Torah Observant congregation here

that follows the Messiah.

The only congregation here that observes Torah

is a Jewish one and they don't believe that

Yahshua is the Messiah :-(

So we listen to EliYah or YRM

for our Shabbat service via the internet.

When the sun sets we pray to end Shabbat, but

many have another (smaller) dinner,

we don't.

I'm learning to enjoy and call the Shabbat a delight, it's

hard because I long for fellowship with like minded

believers. I believe if we did have

a congregation to fellowship with I would

enjoy it so much better. But Father knows

best and I believe there is a reason for this

time in our lives without a physical

assembly.

I hope this has helped you my Sister Bridget, there are no

set 'rules' per say to a Shabbat dinner just a nice

dinner, teaching the children that Shabbat is

a set apart day that

Yahweh commanded

his people everywhere

to observe

so we begin it with a special

dinner that is unlike the rest of the week.

There are many 'Jewish Traditions' for Shabbat

but we like to keep ours simple and have

the Holy Spirit lead us in our observance.

Well, got to get back to preparing for Shabbat,

May you have a

His Shalom on

Shabbat!

Second week's give away celebration

Ok, so this is the second week of a one month give- way celebration. Here is a post from last November the 24th. This week's give away is related to this post and the above clipart in some way. Take a guess at what it could be and your name will be added to the drawing twice. Oh one more thing, all the names from last weeks drawing (with the exception of the winner) will be put back into the drawing this week along with the newer names of this week...come on just make a guess...double your chances of winning!

Changes

We are making some changes...I just learned that toothpaste, laundry detergent, fabric softener, bars of soap, and deodorant all can and most likely do contain pork fat. Now, this presented a problem for our family since we do not consume pork or pork product and we certainly do not want to clean our bodies, teeth, or clothes in the stuff! So, after a little searching I found several recipes for these cleaners: And am praising Yah for them! He will never ask you to do something without giving you the means to do it...He is worthy to be praised! HalleluYah!

*Toothpaste~
1/4 cup of Baking Soda
2 packet of Steava (natural sweetener)
2T of coconut oil
Blend well and dab onto your tooth bush. My girls really like it ;-D

*Laundry Detergent (this site has lots of recipes)
Hot water1/2 cup
Washing Soda
1/2 cup Borax
1/3 bar Soap (grated)
In a large pot, heat 3 pints of water. Add the grated bar soap and stir until melted. Then add the washing soda and borax. Stir until powder is dissolved, then remove from heat.
In a 2 gallon clean pail, pour 1 quart of hot water and add the heated soap mixture. Top pail with cold water and stir well.
Use 1/2 cup per load, stirring soap before each use (will gel).

*Fabric Softener~
1 part Vinegar
1 part Baking Soda
2 parts Hot Water
Oil of Essence your choice of fragrance (I didn't have to purchase EO because I filled a large vinegar jar full of orange peels with ground cloves and let it set for about 7 days...ummm smells mighty good!)
Place a pail large enough to hold double the amount of ingredients in the kitchen sink or bathtub. Mix the baking soda and water in the pail, stir till the powder is dissolved. Then add the vinegar. Remember that baking soda and vinegar reacts with fizzing, so use a big pail to account for this. Once it’s stopped fizzing, pour into clean bottles, cap, then use 1/4 cup per rinse cycle.
Updated Info: The baking soda won’t be completely dissolved, just shake the bottle to mix the batch up before adding to the rinse cycle.

*Dryer sheets~
buy a bag of inexpensive sponges at the dollar store soak them in the home made fabric softener wringe them out just a bit and toss it in the dryer instead of dryer sheet. I use two sponges per load :-D

*Bars of Soap~ (for now we will purchase our herbal natural veg base soaps)
This site has the generic recipe I'll be using, however I want to research
a little bit more, so that I'm comfortable with what I'm doing.
Here is another site I found for glycerin soaps, again I'll have
make sure the glycerin is either a veg or beef base.

*Deodorant~
1/4 cup of baking soda
1/4 cup of corn starch
few table spoon of coconut oil
an empty deodorant container
Just blend together and pack into the container
I found this recipe at this site which I visit nearly everyday

11/24/08

Foam Soap Recipe

Making foam soap for pennies...

After your store bought foam pump liquid soap dispenser is empty, fill it with a few drops of dish soap, about 1-2 table spoons of alcohol, and water. Whoa la...foam soap!

Sourdough Starter II

Well it's been well over a week since I embarked on trying to grow my own SD starter and it only showed life one time, it smelled terrible, and was very watery. I decided after reading several articles written by 'Mike', to toss my dead starter and try his method. His method differed from the previous one in two ways: first, he used whole wheat flour and secondly he suggested feeding the starter every 12 hours, which leads me to believe that maybe my starter 'starved to death' ! :-( yikes!

Oh, I also changed the type of container I was using, decided to use a ceramic bowl, it was easier to stir the starter and pour in the feeding.

So, I grabbed my bowl, added 1/4 cup of warm spring water and 1/4 cup plus 2 tblsp of whole wheat flour, mixed, and covered with plastic wrap for about 12 hours. When I checked it it had a few bubbles on top so I waited a few more hours, still just a few bubbles. I fed it 1/4 cup of warm spring water and 1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp of whole wheat flour, covered it, and let it sit for 12 hours. When I checked on it, wow, it was alive! It had doubled in size and was bubbly!

Yeah! So, per Mike's instructions I discarded 1/2 of the starter and then fed it again.

That was last night at 10:30. I'm getting ready to feed it again in about an hour and a half.

I checked on it, it's bubbly and is starting to have a beer like smell...this is good, it means its growing good things! I'm so excited about this! I highly recommend the 'Sourdough Home' website for those of us who are new to this.

Remember my first starter....it looks like there could
bubbles forming but no I had just fed it so
there was air bubbles from the stirring

And this is a picture of what a living sd starter looks like...
beautiful isn't it :-D

the picture is kind of dark, I'll try to replace it latter when I have time.

Here is a great inexpensive handmade gift...fabric coasters. They look like you could have spent hours on them but in reality only minutes, they are just so simple to make and look great to boot! here is a tutorial: I made mine in less than 10 min :-D


Quilter's Fabric Coasters - Funny home videos are a click away

The Two Second T-Shirt Fold

This is great! I can now cut my clothes folding time way down watch the video you won't regret it...