Meal ideas for kosher family

[Anonymous]

A friend is recovering from surgery this week and I wanted to drop off a few meals. Parameters are no pork and no mixing milk and meat and no shellfish. Anything else is fine. Grateful for any suggestions!

[Anonymous]

veggie lasagne is an easy one

chicken noodle soup with no dairy in it

mac and cheese

a brisket if they eat red meat

saag paneer, chana masala

basically any mean you can think of will be fine unless it has pig, shellfish, or mixes meat and dairy. you probably eat like this 10000 times per year.

[Anonymous]

It won't be kosher if it's made in your (non kosher) kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Send them a gift card to a kosher deli so the food is actually kosher.

[Anonymous]

I am confused. Are they actually kosher, in which case you'd want to pick up something from a kosher restaurant and drop it off still packaged, or are they somehow partially kosher where they don't care how the meat was slaughtered, or if the kitchen is kosher, but still separate milk from meat?

If the latter, a roast chicken with veggies, prepared without butter, or with vegan butter, is always a nice thing to have because it's good later for leftovers too.

This salad, without the feta, or with vegan feta if you want to be fancy, is lovely and full of fall flavors. It would be a great balance for a chicken with potatoes, carrots and onions.

https://cookieandkate.com/roasted-delicata-squash-pomegranate-arugula-salad/

This vegan feta is good, but it would be fine without:

https://rainbowplantlife.com/greek-style-vegan-feta/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It won't be kosher if it's made in your (non kosher) kitchen.

I bet OP knows her friends better than you do. Lots of people keep "kosher lite" where they don't have two separate kitchens or two sets of plates, but just follow the basic rules of not mixing meat and milk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It won't be kosher if it's made in your (non kosher) kitchen.

That is true, but some people adhere less strictly to the rules than others. If this friend has dined at OP’s house on numerous occasions, they obviously are willing to eat food that isn’t strictly kosher, so long as they’re not eating pork or shellfish and not mixing meat and dairy. OP probably knows whether her friend would eat food she’s prepared.

[Anonymous]

Beef stew, kale and apple slaw

[Anonymous]

Do they have kids, and if so, will other people be bringing meals? When people are up to their eyeballs in lasagnas and soups, it’s a nice change of pace to do breakfast for dinner. A quiche/frittata/savory breakfast casserole, a French toast casserole or muffins or the ingredients to make yogurt parfaits, a bowl of fresh fruit.

You can use plant based breakfast “sausage” in a casserole so there’s no actual meat.

[Anonymous]

Yeah they are kosher lite. These are great ideas esp the breakfast one