Garlicky-Lemony-Green Beans

Garlicky Lemony Green Beans
Kosher Key: Parve, Kitniyot-l'Pesach, Harif

I made this for dinner! It's delicious and very easy to make.

Ingredients
3/4 of a pound of green beans
Salt and Pepper to taste
3/4 of a whole, medium-sized lemon
Pam, olive oil, or non-stick agent
4-7 pressed garlic cloves (depending on how garlicky you like the green beans)

Spray the pan with Pam or lightly spray on olive oil.
Place green beans on a cookie sheet or in a baking pan.
Press garlic over green beans.
Squeeze lemon juice over green beans.
Lightly dust green beans with salt and pepper.


Heat oven to 300 degree F to bake until green beans are crispy and
browned (8-15 minutes, depending upon how brown you like the beans).
During baking process, turn beans over several times.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Bob's Red Mill Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix

First foray into chocolate chip cookies since being diagnosed with gluten and dairy intolerance. While dairy-free (i.e. parve) cookies are nothing new for me, the idea of not using my beloved flour was a bit scary... I happened to pick up a mix of Chocolate Chip Cookies from Bob's Red Mill and popped it into the oven the other day. It's a simple mix to make, you only need butter (or fake butter, which I call "futter" I used Earth Balance) and eggs or egg substitute, the only difficulty is stirring the mix which is very thick and very dry. To make the recipe moist enough and delicious enough, I added an extra egg and more chocolate chips (the number of chips in the recipe is scant.. it would be about 0.9 chips per cookie if I hadn't added some extras.) I added Hershey's non-dairy OU-certified chocolate chips that don't appear to have gluten in them.

Health/Ingredients: It's main ingredients are brown sugar, evaporated cane juice, and bean flour.
Kashrut: Rabbi Avrohon Teichman (Kehilla Kosher)
http://www.bobsredmill.com/gf-chocolate-chip-cookie-mix.html

One tip: Licking the bowl just isn't worth it with many of the gluten-free products, and some even leave a nasty tasty.

First Attempt at Challah

Shalom!
I made my first independent stab at making challah yesterday. My first attempts at challah were with my partner, who is an excellent challah maker, but right now we don't have his bread machine. My second attempts were with a friend. They turned out to be quite delicious, but on my own things are a little bit different. The recipe that I used was from 'The Shiska' Blog (Tory Avery), I've never made anything of hers before. This was a great recipe, like most challah recipes it takes FOREVER to make (you could run to the store, take a shower, or do laundry between risings.)
I'll put the pictures up soon. My favorite type of recipes are those that are not easy messed up. Unfortunately, while I was 'greasing' the bowl I saturated it in oil accidentally, however I did everything else to the letter of the law.

I just found this article about being not letting food rot (a problem of mine in the past.) http://frugalplanet.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/food-waste-why-we-do-it-and-how-we-can-stop/
It's very interesting (ba'al taschit, the concept of not wasting, is part of Jewish law and laws of kashrut).