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Themed menus offer creative suggestions for dishes to bring to your Shabbat table. Using the weekly Torah portion as our guide, we imagine what a Parsha-themed meals could look like.

 

  • MenuMadness: Terumah

    MenuMadness: Terumah

    Feeling Cruv-y

    Using a Parashah pun, we're bringing cauliflower and cabbage to your table this week!

  • MenuMadness: Mishpatim

    MenuMadness: Mishpatim

    We will do and we will hear

    To reflect Bnei Yisrael's willingness to follow God "na'aseh v'neshma" -- "we will do and we will hear," we're bringing ears to your Shabbat table!

  • Menu Madness: Bo - Three's a Charm

    Menu Madness:  Bo - Three's a Charm

    Our Shabbat table is looking at the first three commandments that the Jewish people received!

  • Savoring Songs and Heavenly Delights: Beshalach

    Savoring Songs and Heavenly Delights: Beshalach

    Bring some manna to your Shabbat table!

  • Menu Madness: Seven Out of Ten - Va'Ayra

    Menu Madness: Seven Out of Ten - Va'Ayra

    With the first seven plagues introduced in this week's Torah reading, your Shabbat meal just got very exciting!

  • Menu Madness: Shmot

    Menu Madness: Shmot

    Learn about Moshe and his early life with this week's Menu Madness.

  • Menu Madness: VaYigash

    Menu Madness: VaYigash

    We've hidden Yosef all through our Shabbat table this week

  • Menu Madness: Miketz

    Menu Madness: Miketz

    We're celebrating Chanukah and this week's Torah reading  at our Shabbat table.

  • Menu Madness: VaYeishev

    Menu Madness: VaYeishev

    There are dreams! a colorful coat! Deceit and betrayal! And it can all go on your Shabbat table.

  • Menu Madness: VaYishlach

    Menu Madness: VaYishlach

    We're reenacting Yaakov and Esav's reunion at our Shabbat table this week!

  • Menu Madness: VaYetze

    Menu Madness: VaYetze

    This week we've got angels and ladders and the birth of 12 children! That's enough to crowd your Shabbat table!

  • Menu Madness: Toldot

    Menu Madness: Toldot

    It's not often that the Torah reading tells you exactly what to make for Shabbat. This week: lentil soup (and more!).

  • Torah Treats: Toldot

    Torah Treats: Toldot

    Esau’s Stew

    Esau and Jacob are prominently featured in this week’s Torah portion. Upon returning from his hunting grounds, Esau, who is completely famished, storms into his home and demands from Jacob the “red, red stew” that Jacob is cooking. Jacob agrees on condition that Esau exchanges the red stew for his birthright. And so Esau sells his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of red stew.

  • Parsha Recipe: Camels around a well

    Parsha Recipe: Camels around a well

    Chayei Sarah features Operation: Find Issac a wife. The story goes like this: Abraham’s trusted assistant journeys to Charan to find Issac a good wife. After the long journey, he reaches the well of the town, where he stops his entourage of camels to rest. There, he meets the young and lovely Rebecca who exhibits her kindness by offering water not just to him but to the camels as well. Needless to say, Rebecca passes the “test” and becomes one of our dear Matriarchs.

  • Menu Madness: Chayei Sarah

    Menu Madness: Chayei Sarah

    We're bringing Rebecca to our Shabbat table this week!

  • Menu Ideas: VaYera

    Menu Ideas: VaYera

    This week’s parsha opens up with the story of three “angels” visiting Avraham’s tent and provides rich detail about how Avraham welcomes the angels in and cares for them. We learn that Avraham was a person who acts with loving-kindness specifically when it comes to the mitzvah of “Hachnasat Orchim,” welcoming guests into his home. 

    This week we’re creating our own little Avraham’s Tent as an appetizer.

  • Menu Madness: VaYera

    Menu Madness: VaYera

    This week we look at Abraham and Sarah's hospitality and try to recreate it in our dining room.

  • The Ultimate in Parshat Lech Lecha Cuisine

    The Ultimate in Parshat Lech Lecha Cuisine

    Star Shaped Cookies and Footprint in the Sand Cookies

    This week is a big week for Abraham. He leaves behind everything familiar to him and heads out on an adventure of his own. God promises Abraham that he will have a legacy, children as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sand of the earth. What better way to recreate the adventure with some sugar cookies of our own.

  • Menu Madness

    Menu Madness

    Parshat Lech Lecha

    With stars and sand and covenants with God, your Shabbat table will sparkle this week!

  • A Menagerie of a Meal

    A Menagerie of a Meal

    Menu Madness - Parshat Noah

    Parshat Noah is all about the animals and we're inviting them to dinner! Use some or all of our easy menu ideas on your Shabbat table.

  • Menu Madness: Beresheet

    Menu Madness: Beresheet

    Bringing Parsha to your Table… one dish at a time

    We've added menu plans that reflect each week's Torah reading. Themed Shabbat meals allow us to focus on the Parashat HaShavua in an engaging and dynamic way. Parshat Beresheet is about the creation of the Universe. We're putting that on your dinner plate!

  • MenuMadness: BaMidbar

    MenuMadness: BaMidbar

    Camping Gear

    Our most ambitious MenuMadness ever!!!

  • MenuMadness: Behar

    MenuMadness: Behar

    This week's menu focuses on the concept and the foods associated with Jubilee.

  • MenuMadness: Emor

    MenuMadness: Emor

    We're creatively recreating the bread displayed in the Tabernacle

  • MenuMadness: Metzora

    MenuMadness: Metzora

    Cedar and hyssop provide some culinary opportunities as well as discussion possibilities for this week's Torah reading.

  • Menu Madness: VaYikrah

    Menu Madness: VaYikrah

    Our table this Shabbat is full of thanks and appreciation.

  • Cloudy with a Chance of Pomegranates

    Cloudy with a Chance of Pomegranates

    Menu Madness: Pekudai

    This week we're cloudy with a chance of pomegranates.

  • Chulent Throwdown

    Chulent Throwdown

    MenuMadness: VaYakhel

    We've got some unique recipes inspired by this week's Parsha!

  • Menu Madness: Ki Tisa

    Menu Madness: Ki Tisa

    It's a dazzling display of gold on this week's Shabbat table!

  • Menu Madness: Tetzaveh

    Menu Madness: Tetzaveh

    Frosted cupcakes or olive oil chicken -- we're making the mishkan come alive!

  • Menu Madness: Tu B'Shvat

    Menu Madness: Tu B'Shvat

    Special Edition

    Check out some great ways to bring fruit into your Tu B'Shvat celebration!