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 Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:55 pm
darkphoenix1247 Sorry Divash, but deep-fried anything is not my thing. blaugh Just noticed this comment and thought I'd contribute: In Britain, especially Scotland, if you take any sort of food into a fish&chip shop, they'll deep fry it for ya! You haven't lived until you've had deep-fried marshmellows! NEWS: I'm not going to Amsterdam... my passport expired. So I'm going to a seder at the local shul tomorrow night.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:23 pm
Mistypaw You can always do what i'm doing. I'm kicking my husband out for the night. lol. I told him to go eat out and hang out at a friends house while I stay home and keep working on this. B"H Haha, yea sure but there is no place for them to go here, much less kosher places to eat XD
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:15 am
Mistypaw The menu is: appitizers: pickles, olives, chicken/matzoball soup, matzo, chopped liver, gefitle fish main course: turkey, mashed potatoes, kosher stuffing, lemon butter broccoli, cranberries, and yams dessert: 2 cakes, and a fruit salad with cool whipAlso, though I don't usually, I may try the whole no bread thing for the week. I'm on the south beach diet, so it's basically like Phase 1 lite. Really, phase 1 is probably just as if not more restrictive as orthodox kosher for passover eating. I'm confused. You're going to be serving meat and butter at the same meal? And Cool Whip (the brand, which is A. Dairy and B. Not kosher for Passover)? And stuffing -- just kosher, or do you mean proper kosher l'Pesach? Are you sure you know how restrictive Orthodox kashrut is, never mind Passover kashrut on top of that?
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:30 am
Divash Mistypaw The menu is: appitizers: pickles, olives, chicken/matzoball soup, matzo, chopped liver, gefitle fish main course: turkey, mashed potatoes, kosher stuffing, lemon butter broccoli, cranberries, and yams dessert: 2 cakes, and a fruit salad with cool whipAlso, though I don't usually, I may try the whole no bread thing for the week. I'm on the south beach diet, so it's basically like Phase 1 lite. Really, phase 1 is probably just as if not more restrictive as orthodox kosher for passover eating. I'm confused. You're going to be serving meat and butter at the same meal? And Cool Whip (the brand, which is A. Dairy and B. Not kosher for Passover)? And stuffing -- just kosher, or do you mean proper kosher l'Pesach? Are you sure you know how restrictive Orthodox kashrut is, never mind Passover kashrut on top of that? nope.. probably not. luckily, most of my family isn't terribly observant and won't know either. yes, we're probably pretty far down on the kosherness scale... but we are getting together as a family and doing the ritual and it's something. Which is better than nothing. Which is what I really wish to be doing after all the aggravation being delivered to be whilst getting this all done. On top of everything, my cat decided to make a mess behind the couch (huge sectional couch - so no small deal to move and clean behind), my mom wants to invite a non-Jewish friend who I barely know because she will have "not one there for her" otherwise. Cause apparently, I'm not there for her. scream And after buying a metric ton of food, half the people canceled on me, which means I did lots of extra work and spent lots more money which no one will contribute back to me. And I just know my in-laws are going to embarrass me tonight. I'm about ready to run away screaming. So, for me at least, just getting this done in any measure has been an epic effort. Kudos for people who manage to pull off more... I keep telling myself I'll be happy I did it when it's over... but right now I'm going nuts. I suppose I can leave off the cool whip, and yes the stuffing it the kosher for passover type i found in the supermarket. As for the broccoli... plain broccoli is so boring... if someone can suggest something fast and easy I can do to dress it up instead that would work - I'll do it.
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:04 pm
It truly does suck when people have the poor manners to cancel AFTER you've spent the money on food that will spoil, and AFTER you've put in all the labor to prepare it all. Grr. Last year and the year before, I invited eight people over. Two showed up, and NO ONE even CALLED to cancel, they just left me hanging. Now, that's rude. I'm sorry it's such a hassle, and pregnancy on top of all that, oy.
Hm, broccoli. Why not grab some kosher l'Pesach margarine for the broccoli? It'll taste almost the same, and be a lot closer to kosher. smile But yeah, right now, four hours before seder should begin, it may be too late. Maybe steam it and toss on a handful of almonds?
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:48 pm
one hour and counting...
i'm in pain...
lower back is killing me, i smashed my wrist really good on the counter, and sliced my finger open...
still so much to do, then to get through dinner and clean up...
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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:06 pm
Mistypaw one hour and counting... i'm in pain... lower back is killing me, i smashed my wrist really good on the counter, and sliced my finger open... still so much to do, then to get through dinner and clean up... M'srry! Take it easy and good luck! I hope you have an awesome Passover!
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:16 pm
My apartment is devoid of all bread and other such things!
I'm going to try to keep kosher as best I can (utensils and plates and stuff are the biggest issue, since I don't have access to kosher ones).
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:36 pm
I'm back from my first ever seder night!
I musta read a Haggadah like 20 times, and now I actually sat there reading one as the rabbi went through it with us. I went to a Reform synogogue, but its not too different to our Liberal one. Maybe less music and more old people.
The average age was 50, but the people were lovely! There were a couple from LA and a lady from Mass. joining us. All in all, there were about 25 people present.
And we had an orange on the Seder plate!!
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:58 pm
I'm going to a seder tomorrow night. Turns out the local synagogue (reconstruction) does one. I'm looking forward to it.
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:04 pm
Behatzlacha-S I'm back from my first ever seder night! I musta read a Haggadah like 20 times, and now I actually sat there reading one as the rabbi went through it with us. I went to a Reform synogogue, but its not too different to our Liberal one. Maybe less music and more old people. The average age was 50, but the people were lovely! There were a couple from LA and a lady from Mass. joining us. All in all, there were about 25 people present. And we had an orange on the Seder plate!! that sounds awesome. the reform temple by me is more conservative than i'd like. It's all stand up/ sit down /organ music... sheesh.. like a church. And the liberal jewish renewal group i'd like to check out here meets very sporadically. i did put an orange on my own seder plate though. it is done. things are cleaned up and put away... and i think i'm gonna go sleep like a million years.
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:08 pm
Lets see how the super abbreviated seder at my house went...
6:30: Seder Starts, Neuf does kiddush, washes hands, drinks wine, has greens, breaks matzah, points at stuff, drinks another wine and then dinner.
7:20: Dinner over, Neuf does 3 prayers and has 2 more cups of wine.
7:30: Seder over.
7:31: Everyone's already left the table, Neuf plans for second show tomorrow night.
So to answer the question if I enjoy Seder with my family?
No... not really, it would be easier if we just dropped the whole "Forced Family Fun" aspect and did what we really wanted to do...
that being be somewhere else with other people...
Hell my brother did, he went to see the Red Sox because he forgot about Passover.
I'm still the only one in my family who's doing the unleavened bread thing.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:08 am
My family went to our shul's first ever seder. It was pretty nice. The thing is with our cantor(who's studying to be a Rabbi, too.) has an entire collection of haggads(haggadot?), ranging from Spanish, French, Italian,Russian,Yiddish to Holistic, feminist, and very traditional, that he has different people read from. It's quite interesting. And my dad got mad at me and my sister for drinking wine. The only problem was that he told us not to dink it AFTER the last cup.
Tonight we're having a sedar at our house with a family friend and her daughter and one or two of my sister's friends. Our sedar is usually pretty short(2-2 1/2 hours including meal. Maybe more) and other than the blessings done mostly in English, but It should be good.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:46 pm
LordNeuf Lets see how the super abbreviated seder at my house went... 6:30: Seder Starts, Neuf does kiddush, washes hands, drinks wine, has greens, breaks matzah, points at stuff, drinks another wine and then dinner. 7:20: Dinner over, Neuf does 3 prayers and has 2 more cups of wine. 7:30: Seder over. 7:31: Everyone's already left the table, Neuf plans for second show tomorrow night. So to answer the question if I enjoy Seder with my family? No... not really, it would be easier if we just dropped the whole "Forced Family Fun" aspect and did what we really wanted to do... that being be somewhere else with other people... Hell my brother did, he went to see the Red Sox because he forgot about Passover. I'm still the only one in my family who's doing the unleavened bread thing. I like your family's style.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:12 pm
I just got back from my first ever seder.
I am slightly drunk. I'll update more later, like, tomorrow. When I'm sober.
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