Rosh Hashana - Part Two: The Food

If I've learned one thing since becoming a mom, it's that when you entertain, you should keep things simple.  So when it came time to planning the menu for our Rosh Hashana dinner, I stuck with dishes that were really good, but also really easy to make.  I also used my chafing dishes to keep the warm dishes warm so that I didn't have to wait to the last minute to put everything out (and I didn't have to keep reheating the dishes before guests went back for seconds and thirds).

The Dinner Menu:

• Gefilte Fish

•   Israeli Salad

•  Butter Lettuce Salad with Beets and Corn

•  Round Challahs

•  Green Beans with Tomatoes

•  Israeli Cous Cous with Lentils

• Sweet Potato Apple Bake  

• Brisket

 

The Dessert Table 

A Rosh Hashana dinner is full of sweet symbols for a sweet new year.  So I figured it was appropriate to have a sweet table, full of sweet things.

 

 

• Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries (I doubled the recipe that I found here).  These were a huge hit, and so simple to make.  The only thing I would do different next time, is that I used a ziplock bag with the corner cut off to fill the strawberries and it was really messy.  Next time, I would use a real piping bag or a spoon.

 

• Chocolate Lacies (store purchased)
• Meringue Cookies (store purchased)

•  Grapes

• Carmel Apples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory - We sliced them to make it easier to eat and share. 

• Chocolate Moose
• Chocolate Covered Strawberries
• Apple Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream
• Apple Pie Pops (from a recipe I found here - I used frozen Pillsbury pie crust and they came out great).