Here’s my 30-second filling snack
PB and Banana Slices
Here’s my 30-second filling snack that’s really an excuse to use salted caramel on a weekday. I slice a banana into half-inch slices, then dollop a small teaspoon of peanut butter onto each slice. Drizzle caramel syrup over the whole thing and top with salt flakes if you like the sweet/salty taste. Enjoy!
—Chanie Nayman
In your cholent issue, Miriam (Pascal) Cohen recommended assembling the cholent ingredients before Shabbos and leaving it raw until just before licht bentching, when you plug in the Crock-Pot. Can you clarify how to do this in a halachically permissible way?
Technically, this is muttar as long as one placed the food on a blech. When using a Crock-Pot, thick aluminum foil should be placed over the heating element and preferably the knobs so that it’s considered a blech. But the following has to be stressed:
Regardless of whether there is a blech or not, any time one hastens the cooking of an uncooked item on Shabbos, he is chayav d’Oraisa. This includes placing a lid on an open pot; stirring; moving the pot closer to the fire; and closing an oven door. Therefore, should one want to place a raw cholent on the fire right before Shabbos, he cannot touch the pot at all until the food is fully cooked, even if there is blech.
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