Welcome Llama with your first post. Thank you MostlyWater with over 1000 posts.

Is quinoa so much better than potatoes and rice that it really makes a difference?

i sometimes make a "roasted beets and squash side dish" or "beets and mandarin oranges"

Well ... I prefer my beets cold and I'm NOT tangling with a whole pumpkin ! I'll use my pumpkin from the can, the way the Good Lord intended me to.

OK, we're going to have quinoa both nights of Rosh Hashana.

Many of us have logged in for dozens of consecutive days. Are we all going to get reset to zero because we can't log in for over 72 hours?

AND DON'T FORGET EIRUV TAVSHILIM!

Good luck with that reset request. If you don't log in, despite the fact that it's a Holiday, how do you expect MFP to count those days?

I make honey cake every year (Claudia Roden's recipe) and it is fairly light. Her lokshen kugel mit eppel is also excellent, and you can definitely cut the sugar if you want to lessen the sweetness, or replace half the sugar with splenda or something.

Just testing my image posting ability.
Please don't forget eiruv tavshilin.

I'm just doing plain ole black eyed peas, boiled with salt. Can't throw any pork in them, LOL, so what else is there to do?!

I'm seeking low calorie, low carb, no sugar, dessert recipes . . . other than water! LOL

Seriously, I'm going to be trying homemade jello desserts. Coffee jello, mocha jello, tea (apple cinnamon) jello, and for the kids, vitaminchick (petal) jello.

I'm also going to experiment using zucchini (if I can find any in the stores - where did the zucchinis go?!!) to make a sweet cinnamon kugel for dessert, instead of using apples.

Instead of cauliflower brownies, I'm going to try to make zucchini low carb brownies.

I think I'll try mixing pumpkin (the real stuff, not canned) with zucchini to make a more low calorie crustless pumpkin pie, also.

I'm going to do a terrible thing and try using just egg whites (throw out the yolks?! for these desserts. Gotta cut calories somehow.

For sure we'll make our very high calorie mint coconut milk ice cream, but I also want to try to make a low calorie ice cream. There has to be a way. Or maybe not. If not, then we might splurge and buy a variety of those chemical saturated diet ice cream bars.

I don't know how I'm going to remember about the eruv tavshillin.

But I finally got my menu organized, I think:

Of course, we'll have challah (my half whole wheat with chai seed), and some nice wine for kiddish.

Then the simanim, which we do some traditional ones and make up extra ones in english. We'll do apples and honey, gingered carrots, dates, rimonim, olives, beets, hummus, beans, leek kugel, pumpkin kugel, whole little fishes, and baby lettuce.

For main courses, I'm planning to make large batches:

RH 1: Sesame chicken
Thai sauced veggies
Brown rice
Peppermint Ice cream

Both day meals: Meaty spaghetti sauce
Italian sauced veggies
Noodles
Chocolate Jello with whipped cream

RH 2: Morrocan Salmon
Sweet potato
Eggplant
Cheesecake

Shabbat: Sushi for salad course, Sesame Chicken, Thai Veggies, Rice, Ice cream.
Lunch: Pumpkin Cholent, Sausages. 85% Chocolate bar.
3rd meal: Salads, cheesecake.

Rosh Hashana 2013
Menu


Baked gef fish, striped (salmon)
Roasted vegetables, hot or cold
Green salad with sprouts

Moussaka (if necessary)
Deli quiches
Roast

Squash muffins
Potato kugel knishes

Dessert:
Chocolate honeycake with ganache
Chocolate pie

Can we have a "like" button, please? Chocolate honey cake...be still my heart....recipe please!!!