Pre-Thanksgiving dinner snacks

[Anonymous]

I need suggestions for pre-Thanksgiving dinner snacks. The hosts keep kosher and the meal itself will have meat, so snacks can’t have dairy (or pork/shellfish obviously). I should be able to either make them at home on Tuesday (or in their kitchen Wednesday afternoon or my Airbnb sometime on Thursday morning) without too much effort. We’ll be driving, so I could buy something premade and frozen and keep it in a cooler but I’d rather not go to the store at our destination on the day before Thanksgiving, and don’t want to take up too much kitchen space on the day of! Ideas welcome. I’d normally do a cheese/charcuterie board but, well…

[Anonymous]

You might be leaving this out but is your kitchen actually kosher? If not, and they really keep kosher, you can't make anything at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might be leaving this out but is your kitchen actually kosher? If not, and they really keep kosher, you can't make anything at all.

+1

You can buy Kosher items like Entemans or Hersheys

[Anonymous]

Platter of mixed nuts and dried fruit? Could add some pieces of good dairy-free chocolate as well.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I was also going to say nuts and dried fruit. You can also cut up apples and pears.

[Anonymous]

They’re fine eating food from a non-kosher kitchen (I cook for them at my house all the time), just no mixing meat and milk.

-OP

[Anonymous]

The meat doesn’t need to be kosher either, they’ve made pulled pork for meal trains and not kashered the kitchen — just so you can calibrate frum levels.

[Anonymous]

What about fruit and veggies (you could do hummus or baba ghanoush if you want a dip). For Thanksgiving you want to keep it light anyway.

[Anonymous]

Ahh got it, Kosher-lite.

I'd probably do a beautiful hummus platter. You can transport it in the cooler or transport in parts and assemble there if you're comfortable doing that.

One of the most impressive ones I ever saw was (almost) single color which was so fun. It was a trio of hummus dips (plain, herb, jalapeño) and all the veggies were green. Snap peas, cucumber, broccoli, celery, green pepper, etc....

You could do an orange one as a nod to Thanksgiving. I'd do plain, red pepper (which is orange), and spicy hummus with carrots, orange (and maybe yellow) bell peppers, orange cauliflower (check Whole Foods), yellow and orange tiny tomatoes, and a variety of crunchiees like nuts, Inca Corn (Trader Joe's), and crackers which are all beige-ish. You could also add hearts of palm and pickled carrots.

[Anonymous]

I’d go with a veggie and hummus platter. Chips and salsa are good. But, as a person who keeps kosher I will say, dairy before meat is fine. It’s a six-hour wait for dairy after meat (though we know families who do three hours or just one hour).

It’s really nice of you to be so thoughtful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ahh got it, Kosher-lite.

I'd probably do a beautiful hummus platter. You can transport it in the cooler or transport in parts and assemble there if you're comfortable doing that.

One of the most impressive ones I ever saw was (almost) single color which was so fun. It was a trio of hummus dips (plain, herb, jalapeño) and all the veggies were green. Snap peas, cucumber, broccoli, celery, green pepper, etc....

You could do an orange one as a nod to Thanksgiving. I'd do plain, red pepper (which is orange), and spicy hummus with carrots, orange (and maybe yellow) bell peppers, orange cauliflower (check Whole Foods), yellow and orange tiny tomatoes, and a variety of crunchiees like nuts, Inca Corn (Trader Joe's), and crackers which are all beige-ish. You could also add hearts of palm and pickled carrots.

Cute idea!
Veggies definitely make the best thanksgiving appetizers.