your fiance/husband's first night in america...

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Babybunny-- sorry since I'm not up on everyone's religious preferences yet..

But I would choose the chocolate chip! i made them for my husband and he LOVED them. if your SO is Muslim and you want to keep it halal, just buy vanilla powder or non-alcoholic vanilla when you make the recipe! Chocolate chip is best made by scratch, buuuuut PB is great if you buy the pilsbury one and then add some extra crunchy peanut butter to the dough! So I think you could do both!! Sugar cookies are also good from the pre-done dough.

You could make a cake? And write something cute on top?

AND! OMG! You could have a cuuute dinner with candles and non-alcoholic wine (sparkling juice) if you're keeping halal, but I think I'd do that on day 2!

As far as what else in the basket? Depends on what kind of signals you want to send! Rahma has good ideas! Or you could put in some of his favorite snacks or candy, or maybe you could do some fruit.. what about an itenerary for the week? Or the next couple days at least? Maybe some redemable massage tickets (for him from you) or something cute and private like that?

I hate to change the subject.. BUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

but should I make javed Peanut butter cookies or Chocolate chip cookies? the pre cut frozen kind < I am too lazy to roll the dough >

I was thinking of making a welcome home goody basket. what else should I put in the basket.

uhmmmm gonna get pilsbury frozen cookie the pre cut kind.

I really dont know what kind of candy and snacks he likes. dayum it I will ask him..

I like the making a cake idea. my husband loves sweets..lol

I'm not that good at romantic ideas. But there are cookie cutters in the form of hearts. You can flatten the dough and cut heart shaped cookies out of it. then decorate them with frosting. That sounds good.

[brnidokiegurl 0]

In his basket put the "little things" he will need, smelly, shaving,etc and key to the house, just the little things that will first come up in the first few days. (making myself a note)

[UmmSqueakster 54]

But I would choose the chocolate chip! i made them for my husband and he LOVED them. if your SO is Muslim and you want to keep it halal, just buy vanilla powder or non-alcoholic vanilla when you make the recipe!

For awhile, i was using real vanilla beans in my cooking. While it taste great, it's a bit expensive. We just recently got little packets of vanilla sugar from the local ME groccery store. The cookies that are sitting on the stove cooling at this moment are really really tasty.

even if there was alcohol in the vanilla - it cooks out. I thought so anyways.

course I did not know vanilla had alcohol.

Some hanafis allow for cooking with vanilla extract, but I believe all other madhabs are against it. Not all the alcohol cooks out, unfortunately, and I believe the general reasoning is that whatever touches the alcohol is impure, so it basically pollutes the dough.

Vanilla extract is made by soaking vanilla beans in alcohol, which absorbs it's flavor.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

The rush was because the judge was trying to find any excuse to mot allow us to marry in the first place and we were down to the wire by the time our newly-hired attorney was able to convince him that if the US Embassy had validated my divorce ( a requirement), then why wouldn't he accept their word, if not my divorce decree. We did have a honeymoon in May this year.

I've never been divorced and I didn't have a divorce decree. I had a death decree. That was a typo I didn't catch. The rest is true.

R-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght

I'm not going to belabor this, JP. I have no reason to lie about that. I make a lot of typos. I've also made many posts about my first husband's death. So, take it as you will. Do I care? No, I don't.

There is no reason to lie about anything. The bottom line is if someone is Southern, so are you. If someone is Native American, so are you. If someone is Moroccan, so are you. If someone is Palistinian, so are you. Time and time again you have changed your story and now people are catching on. You change things to make them work in your favor, as proven.

Well, that's interesting, but not true. I'm happy to fill your drama quotient for tonight because, well, I'm so relentless ya know.

[Nasturtium 500]

For awhile, i was using real vanilla beans in my cooking. While it taste great, it's a bit expensive. We just recently got little packets of vanilla sugar from the local ME groccery store. The cookies that are sitting on the stove cooling at this moment are really really tasty.

You know you can also (and this is an FYI for those who don't know ) find a lot of non-alcoholic vanilla products (like the powders) at the Mexican and other South/Central American markets! Here, there are basically no other types of markets except the regular chains like Walmart and the occasional hispanic market. So for those who live in small areas like mine and are trying to piece together something halal for yourself or your SO (like me, I'm Christian but my Dh is Muslim so I've been scoping out the halal possibilities especially since I'm vegetarian and didn't even know much about the meat situations in general LOL.. and I don't drink... so?), it's a nice tip to know!

Baby Bunny-- I;ve found a lot of times if I bring something to his family or him, they have a liking to caramel!!! It;s apparantly not common in his area of Jordan and it really is a taste they like. Caramellos and any similar caramel-filled chocolate seemed to be the best thing ever! LOL! I also brough homemade fudge (without nuts) and that seemed to be an instant hit as well. Marshmallow creme is halal even though marshmallows are not.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

In his basket put the "little things" he will need, smelly, shaving,etc and key to the house, just the little things that will first come up in the first few days. (making myself a note)

That's a good idea. My husband has a special razor he likes. I can have those for him when he comes.

[babybunny 2]

In his basket put the "little things" he will need, smelly, shaving,etc and key to the house, just the little things that will first come up in the first few days. (making myself a note)

oh yess!! great ideas. I like the key to the house idea. < and I might as well rember to give him the lock to the dog house, he certainly wont be getting the key >

[jordanianprincess 0]

The rush was because the judge was trying to find any excuse to mot allow us to marry in the first place and we were down to the wire by the time our newly-hired attorney was able to convince him that if the US Embassy had validated my divorce ( a requirement), then why wouldn't he accept their word, if not my divorce decree. We did have a honeymoon in May this year.

I've never been divorced and I didn't have a divorce decree. I had a death decree. That was a typo I didn't catch. The rest is true.

R-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght

I'm not going to belabor this, JP. I have no reason to lie about that. I make a lot of typos. I've also made many posts about my first husband's death. So, take it as you will. Do I care? No, I don't.

There is no reason to lie about anything. The bottom line is if someone is Southern, so are you. If someone is Native American, so are you. If someone is Moroccan, so are you. If someone is Palistinian, so are you. Time and time again you have changed your story and now people are catching on. You change things to make them work in your favor, as proven.

Well, that's interesting, but not true. I'm happy to fill your drama quotient for tonight because, well, I'm so relentless ya know.

Yes because we all know that you want nothing to do with drama. I guess you just can't handle the fact that you just got PWNED!

[~Jackie~ 30]

Ya gotta watch out for the alcohol in cold medicines. Nyquil PM is a no-no as is marshmallows and Jello.

J

[UmmSqueakster 54]

For awhile, i was using real vanilla beans in my cooking. While it taste great, it's a bit expensive. We just recently got little packets of vanilla sugar from the local ME groccery store. The cookies that are sitting on the stove cooling at this moment are really really tasty.

You know you can also (and this is an FYI for those who don't know ) find a lot of non-alcoholic vanilla products (like the powders) at the Mexican and other South/Central American markets! Here, there are basically no other types of markets except the regular chains like Walmart and the occasional hispanic market. So for those who live in small areas like mine and are trying to piece together something halal for yourself or your SO (like me, I'm Christian but my Dh is Muslim so I've been scoping out the halal possibilities especially since I'm vegetarian and didn't even know much about the meat situations in general LOL.. and I don't drink... so?), it's a nice tip to know!

Baby Bunny-- I;ve found a lot of times if I bring something to his family or him, they have a liking to caramel!!! It;s apparantly not common in his area of Jordan and it really is a taste they like. Caramellos and any similar caramel-filled chocolate seemed to be the best thing ever! LOL! I also brough homemade fudge (without nuts) and that seemed to be an instant hit as well. Marshmallow creme is halal even though marshmallows are not.

LOL, you'll fit right in here. Every few months, we go through the things that are halal and what not.

Something to look into - ice cream. Some contain gelatin. Edy's doesn't, except the stuff with marshmallows.

Also, yogurt. Look for stuff with no gelatin or kosher gelatin.

[babybunny 2]

For awhile, i was using real vanilla beans in my cooking. While it taste great, it's a bit expensive. We just recently got little packets of vanilla sugar from the local ME groccery store. The cookies that are sitting on the stove cooling at this moment are really really tasty.

You know you can also (and this is an FYI for those who don't know ) find a lot of non-alcoholic vanilla products (like the powders) at the Mexican and other South/Central American markets! Here, there are basically no other types of markets except the regular chains like Walmart and the occasional hispanic market. So for those who live in small areas like mine and are trying to piece together something halal for yourself or your SO (like me, I'm Christian but my Dh is Muslim so I've been scoping out the halal possibilities especially since I'm vegetarian and didn't even know much about the meat situations in general LOL.. and I don't drink... so?), it's a nice tip to know!

Baby Bunny-- I;ve found a lot of times if I bring something to his family or him, they have a liking to caramel!!! It;s apparantly not common in his area of Jordan and it really is a taste they like. Caramellos and any similar caramel-filled chocolate seemed to be the best thing ever! LOL! I also brough homemade fudge (without nuts) and that seemed to be an instant hit as well. Marshmallow creme is halal even though marshmallows are not.

Marshmallow creme is halal ? how come?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

The rush was because the judge was trying to find any excuse to mot allow us to marry in the first place and we were down to the wire by the time our newly-hired attorney was able to convince him that if the US Embassy had validated my divorce ( a requirement), then why wouldn't he accept their word, if not my divorce decree. We did have a honeymoon in May this year.

I've never been divorced and I didn't have a divorce decree. I had a death decree. That was a typo I didn't catch. The rest is true.

R-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght

I'm not going to belabor this, JP. I have no reason to lie about that. I make a lot of typos. I've also made many posts about my first husband's death. So, take it as you will. Do I care? No, I don't.

There is no reason to lie about anything. The bottom line is if someone is Southern, so are you. If someone is Native American, so are you. If someone is Moroccan, so are you. If someone is Palistinian, so are you. Time and time again you have changed your story and now people are catching on. You change things to make them work in your favor, as proven.

Well, that's interesting, but not true. I'm happy to fill your drama quotient for tonight because, well, I'm so relentless ya know.

Yes because we all know that you want nothing to do with drama. I guess you just can't handle the fact that you just got PWNED!

If you say so. I doubt it myself.

[UmmSqueakster 54]

Marshmallow creme is halal ? how come?

Most kinds are made without gelatine, which is what is used to give the marshmallow it's puffy shape

[babybunny 2]

I think we need a HALAL thread of foods. coz, I did not know any of the things yall mentioned are Halal. what ice cream is halal? I love me Klondike Strawberry cheese cake flavor.

[Nasturtium 500]

Some hanafis allow for cooking with vanilla extract, but I believe all other madhabs are against it. Not all the alcohol cooks out, unfortunately, and I believe the general reasoning is that whatever touches the alcohol is impure, so it basically pollutes the dough.

Vanilla extract is made by soaking vanilla beans in alcohol, which absorbs it's flavor.

It's so distributed (with the whole 1tsp to the whole batch of 3-6 dozen (which leads me to another problem I have- -how can you get 6 dz out of that freakin batch? what are you eating, dime-sized cookies?! Anyway!) and the heat is pretty high, chemically, it should be out.. BUT... I always take the "safe" road when making something for my Dh to mail to him (like chocolate chip cookies!!) or if I am looking in the store at things and I don't even get involved with it. Vanilla powder vs extract is a pretty null issue since the alternative is there and easy My husband is hanafi, and I have heard it is permissable in some madab like you said and not in others.. I figured since I have the alternative I may as not bother to fool with it! Yep! Better safe than having him come to me one day and be all mad! LOL!