okay, I'll make you lamb!
Remember that line from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding?" It reminds me of our Passover seder this past Sat. night.
At the last minute, I invited my friend from the health club to come because her husband was out of town. She asked what to bring and I said a salad.
My friend, AM, arrives with flowers and a beautiful salad. I have spent 2 days making a wonderful dinner. We start with reading the Passover story while eating some ritual foods including Haroset, which is a mixture of fruit, nuts and sweet wine. I pride myself on my Harosets. I made just 4 this year: Yemenite, Morrocan, New England style and Haroset a la Romana. Everyone loves them.
I bring them to the table. AM says that she is allergic to walnuts. I almost die. All but one of the harosets have walnuts. The Romana one is made with bananas and almonds and is one of our daughter's favorites. I asked her to pass it over to AM. She did so with such a sad look on her face.
At dinner, AM loved my matzoh ball soup. We loved her salad. We knew our son only wanted hot dogs. So, I bring out the lamb, the veggies, and hot dogs for Ben. A beautiful platter of roast leg of lamb. A delicious, marinated in mustard and rosemary, leg of lamb. I put it on the table and AM says, "I don't eat lamb."
After I picked up my jaw from the floor, I tried to think of what else to serve and AM says that it is okay, she will have hot dogs, too. So I end up serving my guest hot dogs. At least they were Hebrew National.
The only thing I pride myself more on than the harosets are my flourless desserts. So I brought out my Chocolate Silk pie, meringue "mushrooms," a Syrian apricot and pistachio dessert and matzohs covered with chocolate, apricots and pistachios to match the other dessert. AM takes one look at the pie and says that it looks wonderful and is the crust made of graham crackers (they are not Kosher for Passover) and I said no that the crust was made of pecans and...walnuts. Oy vey! Well, at least she loved the other desserts.
The Passover seder calls for you to drink 4 cups of wine. We usually just top off what is in our glasses. This Passover, I drank all four glasses!
I have an apron that says on it, "Why is this night different from all others (a question we ask every Passover)? Don't ask!
Remember that line from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding?" It reminds me of our Passover seder this past Sat. night.
At the last minute, I invited my friend from the health club to come because her husband was out of town. She asked what to bring and I said a salad.
My friend, AM, arrives with flowers and a beautiful salad. I have spent 2 days making a wonderful dinner. We start with reading the Passover story while eating some ritual foods including Haroset, which is a mixture of fruit, nuts and sweet wine. I pride myself on my Harosets. I made just 4 this year: Yemenite, Morrocan, New England style and Haroset a la Romana. Everyone loves them.
I bring them to the table. AM says that she is allergic to walnuts. I almost die. All but one of the harosets have walnuts. The Romana one is made with bananas and almonds and is one of our daughter's favorites. I asked her to pass it over to AM. She did so with such a sad look on her face.
At dinner, AM loved my matzoh ball soup. We loved her salad. We knew our son only wanted hot dogs. So, I bring out the lamb, the veggies, and hot dogs for Ben. A beautiful platter of roast leg of lamb. A delicious, marinated in mustard and rosemary, leg of lamb. I put it on the table and AM says, "I don't eat lamb."
After I picked up my jaw from the floor, I tried to think of what else to serve and AM says that it is okay, she will have hot dogs, too. So I end up serving my guest hot dogs. At least they were Hebrew National.
The only thing I pride myself more on than the harosets are my flourless desserts. So I brought out my Chocolate Silk pie, meringue "mushrooms," a Syrian apricot and pistachio dessert and matzohs covered with chocolate, apricots and pistachios to match the other dessert. AM takes one look at the pie and says that it looks wonderful and is the crust made of graham crackers (they are not Kosher for Passover) and I said no that the crust was made of pecans and...walnuts. Oy vey! Well, at least she loved the other desserts.
The Passover seder calls for you to drink 4 cups of wine. We usually just top off what is in our glasses. This Passover, I drank all four glasses!
I have an apron that says on it, "Why is this night different from all others (a question we ask every Passover)? Don't ask!
