Normally, my husband is the sole beneficiary of all the hard work that goes down in our kitchen. Sunday was different, however, since we both volunteered to take part in Mitzvah (aka "good deed,") Day, using our culinary skills to help those in need. With my husband's help, FIDF, a Jewish organization benefiting the soldiers of the Israel Defense Force, was able to organize a group of young individuals to participate in the day's activities. Roughly fifteen of us donated our Sunday morning to helping prepare meals for the shelter at the Ansche Chesed Synagogue. Under the instruction of Emily Klein, who runs a culinary instruction company and volunteers at the JCC, we were able to make vegetable lasagna, Israeli salad, chocolate pudding and chocolate chip cookies. All in all, it was a Sunday morning well spent helping those in need.
FIDF-ers hard at work, chopping...
and chopping some more...
Men, hard at work, baking cookies...
Getting our hands dirty...
Tomatoes and cucumbers, washed and waiting to be diced, for the Israeli salad.
The finished product...
being packaged and readied for delivery.
Vegetable lasagna assembly...
Chef/Instructor, Emily Klein, slicing into the steaming, hot-out-of-the-oven lasagna
individual portions being packaged...
and, finally, dessert cooling down...
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Awesome!
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