When Tamar asked me what I wanted to write for Shavuot and if I ate dairy, I laughed and told her I don’t even have a dairy oven. My family has all sorts of allergies and I am the Kosher Butcher’s Wife, dairy just doesn’t fit in. How’s that for loyalty!
As for Shavuot, every year our Rabbi stands up in shul and says, “Although dairy should be eaten on Shavuot, we must remember that it is Yomtov and we need to eat meat on a Yomtov, and by the way, this statement wasn’t sponsored by the butchers in our community!!”
However, I do make cheesecake (in my mother in law’s oven) for the two of us. She lives on our property so it’s convenient when I’m craving a slice of cheesecake. I also make her batches of macaroni cheese which she always says is the best thing since cheesecake!! But since my specialty is meat and parve, here are two non-dairy dishes that will satisfy even the chesiest among us.
When I think ”pasta’ somehow I picture a lovely macaroni cheese, or Fetuccine Alfredo, always a creamy, cheesey, dairy dish. Well, this flavoursome, non-dairy creamy pasta has all the taste with the added bonus of being able to serve it as a main meal or a side dish to meat.
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