An all apple menu

[bloviatrix]

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is fast approaching and it is tradition to eat apples dipped in honey as a symbol of a sweetness. But since I refuse to do anything remotely traditional, I've been toying with the idea of expanding upon the theme and using apples in every course for the dinner I will serve the first night.

I welcome all suggestions for dishes that I could serve. Please keep in mind the following requirements that need to be followed: 1) this will be a meat meal meaning no dairy such as cream or butter can be used 2) nothing derived from a pig is allowed 3) no shellfish 4) fish cannot be mixed with poultry/meat

[Abra]

A salad with arugula, radicchio, candied walnuts, and tart green apples, a soup of pureed sauteed apples and caramelized onions with Calvados and sage, the non-pork part of Himmel und Erde - a mash of equal parts of potatoes and green apples that's surprisingly delicious, apple-stuffed sweet potatoes, roast chicken with a dried apple, rice, and wild rice stuffing, and a gingerbread-apple upside-down cake with a reduced cider and Calvados sauce?

[bloviatrix]

Thanks for the suggestions Abra. The salad already has my mouth watering.

I'm now reminded of a 5th requirement: No calvados. There's no kosher one on the market (at least in the US).

[JAZ]

I have a great recipe somewhere for sweet potato and apple soup. It calls for pureeing and adding cream, but it's great without the cream too.

[FL Heat]

I made this stuffing for pork chops, but it would work for stuffing chicken breasts or a roulade as well, I suppose. . .onions sauteed til soft in olive oil, then a garlic clove, then finely diced & peeled tart apples, then walnuts, fennel seed, and fresh sage. The recipe I worked from called for bread crumbs, but I chose not to use them. Made a glaze from reduced apple juice & honey.

We had a salad similar to Abra's, but I added fresh raspberries and blue cheese as well, since the request had been made for a raspberry vinaigrette dressing.

Diana

[SobaAddict70]

Roasted carrots, onion and squash soup. Add apples and garam masala. Use vegetable stock. Maybe a potato for body.

Spiced apple butter, with cinnamon and cloves. Use as an accompaniament to lamb chops or grilled chicken.

Apple, jicama, fennel and red cabbage slaw, with chopped walnuts and dates.

Poached whole apples, glazed with a honey cardamom syrup and stuffed with apple sorbet.

Soba