Passover

[voyager]

3 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

The chicken soup is done! (Cleaning the 16 qt stock pot will be a bitch)

Based on my experience with making fish fumet with a whole halibut frame, I would give your pot a decent washing then set it out in the air (balcony?) for several days and then one more light wash.    Let Mother Nature do part of your work.

[MitchW]

20 hours ago, StephanieL said:

They were free to take, courtesy of the local Chabadniks down the block.

Here, they ask if you want to put on tefillin.

[bloviatrix]

3 hours ago, voyager said:

Based on my experience with making fish fumet with a whole halibut frame, I would give your pot a decent washing then set it out in the air (balcony?) for several days and then one more light wash.    Let Mother Nature do part of your work.

What is a balcony and how does one come by one?  I'm not fancy like small h.

[bloviatrix]

Kid made granola (with matzo farfel) and almond flour brownies. He's told me he's burnt out and needs a break. 🙅‍♀️

[StephanieL]

2 hours ago, MitchW said:

Here, they ask if you want to put on tefillin.

Fortunately, the Chabadniks themselves weren't there.  And they'd never ask me to put on tefillin--I get the Shabbat candles kit.

[StephanieL]

Prepping the 5 lb. of potatoes and 2 large onions for the seder kugel tonight.  I'm still working tomorrow--just working from home--so this will be a huge timesaver.

[small h]

4 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

What is a balcony and how does one come by one?

You can use mine. C'mon over.

[small h]

3 hours ago, StephanieL said:

And they'd never ask me to put on tefillin--I get the Shabbat candles kit.

I used to work at a production company on Park Ave South, and every so often some guys would come by trying to get a minyan together. They'd pop out of the elevator and ask whether there were any Jews in the house.* So whomever was up front would fetch me out of my dark little editing room, and I'd toddle up and say "I'm Jewish! How can I help you?" And the guys would shift around a bit and mumble to each other and then get back in the elevator. This happened a couple of times a month.

*Everyone at the company was either Jewish or South American, not sure why, but there it is.

[bloviatrix]

This speaks for itself.

Edited April 22, 2024 by bloviatrix

[Orik]

Why haven't matzos been supplanted by tortillas and all sorts of antojitos? (not to mention arepas)

[bloviatrix]

It's possible you'll find them if you visit Jewish communities in Mexico.

[Wilfrid]

The arepa lady is in Mexico now?

[Orik]

It's not as if the original item (either the actual one or the one in the folk tale) was made of wheat or bore any resemblance to the more modern cracker (which is the way it is more for commercial reasons than anything else), although I have to say I tasted a bit of manischewitz whole wheat matzo and it certainly is a bread of affliction. 

I put in an inquiry with the family in Venezuela.

[Diancecht]

a friend on facebook asked:

“What is Matzoh Farfel historically? My mom used a box - like short noodles fried. Recipes on line say it's broken matzoh, but that's brei. This is ground matzoh and egg, grated, boiled (like passatelli), then fried with onion and chicken stock.”

i thought some of you might know. 

 

[StephanieL]

The box of farfel my mother always had contained what looked like broken matzah to me.  When we still had turkey at the Seder, she used farfel to make stuffing.

Edited April 23, 2024 by StephanieL

[MitchW]

Yes - for instance:

Yehuda Matzo Farfel is coarsely broken matzo for coating and cooking. (from Yehuda)

[splinky]

2 hours ago, MitchW said:

Yes - for instance:

Yehuda Matzo Farfel is coarsely broken matzo for coating and cooking. (from Yehuda)

Yup crumbled matzoh is the kosher for passover style. The pasta looking ones are not KforP, I think those are the ones my grandmother referred to as "egg barley", though hers looked more broken.

[small h]

I could live like this, maybe.

[MitchW]

This year's one matzo brei - savory style.

[bloviatrix]

Lunch today was ramp matzo brie with schmaltz. My arteries may be a little narrower than when I woke up this morning, but it was delicious.

[bloviatrix]

Here's our menus for the first two days as well as everything that we made leading up to the holiday. Kid was incredibly helpful - made all of the baked goods and I let him use the paring knife unsupervised for the first time as he put together the potato salad.

[StephanieL]

Why am I not surprised that you have a spreadsheet?  😄

[StephanieL]

The shmurah matzoh I had was well and truly the bread of affliction.

[StephanieL]

Passover work is done!  Sponge cake that I made for my friends' seder came out nice, the compote is likewise done, and I've already cracked open some of the sweets I ordered from Zabar's (well in advance this year).  I used a South African recipe for the compote, where you soak figs and prunes in port for 2 days first (finally, a good use for the Cockburn's my parents "discovered" in Portugal, and if it's not OK for Passover, I don't want to know).

Last Sunday afternoon, completely out of the blue, the doorbell rang and I saw a teenage boy standing on my doorstep holding a small box of shmurah matzah.  Complements of Chabad of Fremont, he said.  I went to Rosh Hashanah services there a few years ago, so they must have my contact info.  I'm bringing it to the seder. Considering that the Fremont branch has a lot more resources than the Castro Valley branch, I'm hoping this shmurah matzoh isn't quite as awful as last year's.

Edited April 12, 2025 by StephanieL

[small h]

I survived the seder at my parents' house yet again. My job, as always, is to make the charoset. I was hoping to bring the leftovers home, but my mother left it out of the fridge overnight so...I did not.