Tzaziki with Yoghurt and Mint

Here is a list of straightforward kosher food rules:

• 1. Meat must come from birds and animals killed in accordance with Jewish laws (Deut. 12:21). This excludes eating animals killed by other animals, road kill or animals hunted with guns. Meat must be carefully inspected before serving and eating.
• 2. Fish must have fins and scales (this means no shellfish, including squid).
• 3. Any animal you eat must have the blood drained from it (or broiled out).
• 4. Choose one: meat or dairy. Do not eat meat with dairy. Eggs, fruits and vegetables, fish, and grains can be eaten with either meat or dairy. This rule goes back to the Torah when it says not to “boil a kid in its mother’s milk.” (Ex. 23:19; Ex. 34:26; Deut. 14:21)
• 5. Depending on the custom of the community, you must wait three to six hours before switching from eating meat to eat dairy.
• 6. Never eat chelev, a kind of fat around the liver of animal. Kosher butchers remove this part always.
• 7. History states that wine, while it was processed, was sanctified for pagan purposes. Some believe that only wine made by someone Jewish is kosher.