Seder time
2018-Apr-04, Wednesday 14:23![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
Nearly grabbed a cookie today since I'm still a bit under the weather, but remembered just in time and had eggs instead.
Thanks todesh, I got a place at a Seder table on Friday when my initial plans fell through. He reached out to friends in Chicago and they looked around, and so I ate with a family who lives in Wrigleyville. That did mean things were a little different--they had an early round of appetizers after the first eating of the karpas, apparently based on rabbinical speculation that it was an old tradition--but every family has its strange quirks. We had some discussion, but not as much as I'm used to, and then ate delicious brisket, salmon, and vegetables with chocolate mousse (and berry compote) and Passover chocolate mandelbrot, sang some songs, and then the non-family members left. I briefly thought about staying, but since I had plenty of cooking of my own to do, I wanted to get home and rest.
I spent most of the next day cooking. In the morning I started up the slow cooker and loaded it with carrots, onions, brisket, and red wine, and starting from noon just after lunch I made a flourless choco cake, matzah ball soup, Sephardic charoset, and eggplant shakshuka. My guests brought several other items themselves, mostly vegetable dishes, and they arrived at 5 p.m. where we started the traditional watching of Prince of Egypt, which is probably the best way to do the Maggid I can think of.
It went well! There was enough food and people seemed to like it, we got some nice discussion out of it, drank the wine, sang the songs, and didn't go too late--other than the hunt for the afikomen, which took maybe twenty minutes and required multiple (asked-for) hints on my part. And then Sunday I got sick, but no one else seems to have, so it wasn't from the food.
Good thing, too. I have enough leftovers for the rest of this week. I had matzah and charoset for breakfast and they were delicious.
Thanks to
desh, I got a place at a Seder table on Friday when my initial plans fell through. He reached out to friends in Chicago and they looked around, and so I ate with a family who lives in Wrigleyville. That did mean things were a little different--they had an early round of appetizers after the first eating of the karpas, apparently based on rabbinical speculation that it was an old tradition--but every family has its strange quirks. We had some discussion, but not as much as I'm used to, and then ate delicious brisket, salmon, and vegetables with chocolate mousse (and berry compote) and Passover chocolate mandelbrot, sang some songs, and then the non-family members left. I briefly thought about staying, but since I had plenty of cooking of my own to do, I wanted to get home and rest.I spent most of the next day cooking. In the morning I started up the slow cooker and loaded it with carrots, onions, brisket, and red wine, and starting from noon just after lunch I made a flourless choco cake, matzah ball soup, Sephardic charoset, and eggplant shakshuka. My guests brought several other items themselves, mostly vegetable dishes, and they arrived at 5 p.m. where we started the traditional watching of Prince of Egypt, which is probably the best way to do the Maggid I can think of.
It went well! There was enough food and people seemed to like it, we got some nice discussion out of it, drank the wine, sang the songs, and didn't go too late--other than the hunt for the afikomen, which took maybe twenty minutes and required multiple (asked-for) hints on my part. And then Sunday I got sick, but no one else seems to have, so it wasn't from the food.
Good thing, too. I have enough leftovers for the rest of this week. I had matzah and charoset for breakfast and they were delicious.
