Peach Farfel Food

KUGEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch glass baking dish.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain and stir in 6 tablespoons sliced butter.
• In a medium bowl beat egg yolks with sugar and cream cheese; stir into noodles and add sour cream, cottage cheese and salt. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into mixture. Transfer mixture to prepared dish.
• In a small bowl combine melted butter, 1/4 cup sugar, and graham cracker crumbs. Sprinkle over noodle mixture.
• Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour.

PEACH FARFEL

Steps:

• Soak the matzo in water and drain throroughly. Beat together the eggs, sugar, salt vanilla, juice and butter, add the farfel and then the peaches, reserving some for the top to decorate. Pour either into a 9 x 13 pyrex or a deep enough dish to bake in (souffle dish). Decorate the top with reserved peaches and sprinkle with cinammon sugar.
• Preheat the oven to 350. Cook till golden brown, at least 45 minutes, up to one hour.

PEACH NOODLE KUGEL

Steps:

• Boil noodles.
• Meanwhile, put sugar, vanilla, peaches, butter, and eggs together in a large bowl. Mix well.
• Drain noodles. Add to mixture. Mix well.
• Spray 9" x 11" dish with nonstick cooking spray. Pour mixture into dish and level. Cover with cinnamon.
• Bake uncovered at 375° for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes.

STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS W/ APRICOT GLAZE

Steps:

• Rinse and then pat dry two whole chicken breasts, preferably on the bone, skin attached.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste, including under the skin, and in the natural split in the meat. This is where the stuffing will go.
• Set aside in refrigerator while preparing the stuffing.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Sauté diced vegetables for stuffing in enough vegetable oil to coat the pan.
• Start with the onion, then add the mushrooms, celery, adding the herbs last, until all the vegetables are soft and aromatic.
• Add sauté to cubes of bread in a bowl off of the heat, mixing together.
• Add hot stock (veggie stock is fine, here too) a little at a time, making sure the bread soaks it up.
• Add one lightly scrambled egg to the mixture.
• Take out your chicken a prepare to stuff! Use your fingers to open the split further, and start filling it in with stuffing, until just a bit is mounding out of the chicken. The moisture of the stuffing will help to keep in it place.
• You may use cotton kitchen string to keep skin and stuffing all in place, or toothpicks.
• Heat a large sauté pan to medium high, with enough oil to coat the pan(I use the same pan I sauté the vegetables in).
• Add the breasts skin side down until the skin is turning golden.
• While chicken is in pan, mix apricot jam with water, heating in microwave to soften, approximately one minute.
• Turn breasts in pan over and sear for five minutes.
• Turning off heat on stove top, coat the chicken, skin side up, with the apricot glaze, and letting any excess pour into pan.
• Place in the oven until done, about fifteen more minutes. Using a meat thermometer, the chicken should be at about 175 - 180°F.
• If serving several courses, these breasts can be served in halves. It's quite a bit of meat, and looks nice cut crosswise, showing the stuffing.

PASSOVER PEACH AND PINEAPPLE FARFEL KUGEL

Steps:

• Place farfel in large bowl and pour 1 cup of boiling juices, that were saved, over farfel, drain and cool.
• Beat eggs. Add sugar and margarine. Beat again.
• Add egg mixture to farfel.
• Add remaining ingredients and mix.
• Pour mixture into a greased 7 X 11 inch baking pan.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 55-60 minutes or until golden brown.