Hello everyone, I hope you had a good Thanksgiving and will have a very happy Chanukah. Yaakov David turned one – and ate a lot of sushi (Nava was willing to pinch hit for him and eat his cupcakes). This week we will have a Chanukah special, sushi for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Shabbos (at […]
Month: November 2010
Vayeishev
Shalom, welcome back. This week we see the greatness of Yosaif (Joseph). The secret of his greatness is that through all his yisurim (suffering, trials), Yosaif remains connected to Hashem. He doesn’t fall into self pity or depression, and this allows him to be a tzadik (righteous) in all his tests. Not only does he […]
Vayishlach
Shalom, welcome back. This week’s parshah is the confrontation between good and evil. Yakov (Jacob) is the embodiment of emet (truth) and tiferet (beauty or splendor). He is confronted by his twin brother Eisav, coming with 400 warriors to kill him. Yakov is returning from exile to Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel). He left a […]
Cooking Group: Task 2: Latkes and Doughnuts
Hooray for Chanukah! Our new cooking task will be latkes and doughnuts. Please feel free to share recipes – we’re on the look out for new ones, exotic ones, delicious ones, whatever you have – you can email me at [email protected] or you can post here in the comment section (if you’re the first commenter […]
Birthday Special November 19, 2010
We’ll have our Hot Wing Wednesday this week – $7 for a dozen, $12 for 2 dozen. And we’ll still have fresh sushi for $6 a roll on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or for Shabbos. This week Executive Chef Bracha Shor is celebrating her birthday (HOORAY!) a free cupcake with each portion ordered. If you would […]
Italiano Special, Thanksgiving Menu November 12th, 2010
We continue to have a very good response to our sushi. You can have fresh sushi Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday – with the added choice of having sushi for Shabbos as well. We make all kinds – with raw fish, spicy, sashimi, with veggies, tofu, egg, california roll, and specialty rolls – whatever you would […]
Pop Tarts, continued
Sorry to take so long to post – we are having trouble with our verizon internet and phone. They were able to fix the phone, but I guess the internet was trickier. So we have intermittent service at the moment. The pop tart experiment has thus far gone great. They were gobbled up; luckily we’re […]