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Happy Passover. I like this time of year because it is a real Judeo-Christian blending time. So much history and of-the-earth richness. I always feel so much like tearing away from things at this time of year, and just making a change or two.
And I love matzoh.
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Heh, I used to be a part of a group called Stone Soup, and we fixed food for the homeless in Saint Louis.
We had a jar of matzoh balls on the shelf for the longest time until I decided to use them for a soup. I asked a few jewish friends for advice, and we made a nice chicken noodle (got to fill it out somehow )/matzoh ball soup with celery and similar veggies
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I hate matzah. I did my cooking today. Brisket is in the fridge now. Is a very tasty bbq style brisket... honey pancakes for both seders are done. Kitchen was a MESS from that project. Salad is prepared. I'm ready to roll Happy passover!
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Happy Passover! I have never tasted matzoh, maybe I will have the opportunity to sample it someday.
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Not that EVERYTHING I think of revolves around Dana these days, but when I was up visiting Dana, we made Matzoh as part of the bread-of-the-month fund raiser. Each subscriber got 12 good sized pieces fresh from the ovens. It wasn't kosher for Passover (we used salt) and it wasn't kosher at all really because I'm pretty sure we didn't have a rabbi in there to certify the process we used.
But that was some gooooooooood matzoh. I risked falling out of ketosis to try our handiwork. It was terrific! Even the burnt pieces were great.
By the way, I was merely helping. There were a bunch of volunteers from various churches & organizations there to do the real work. But I did dust myself with flour occassionally to show them that I supported the cause. And I banged the cooking tins around when the holes in the oven mitts chose an inopportune moment to align with the edge of the pan I was carrying.
So, other than being burned, it was a lot of fun. And we managed to make about 200 pieces of matzoh in about 4 hours.
Manischewitz...watch out! We're on your tail!
PS: I like my matzohs with peanut butter and jelly.
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I love matzoh. My whole family is coming over for matzoh brei on Tuesday morning. That's basically french toast with matzoh, plus vegetables. So yummy.
Plus, those candied fruit slice things.
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Raia, please tell me your having latkes. And please tell me I can come oever before the sedar and test them. Posts: 4655 | Registered: Jan 2002
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Do any of you have a good recipe for honey cakes? Oh my. I made them once, but lost the recipe. I am sure they are non Passover, but they are good!
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I just got back from the grocery store and just bought the supplies to make pizzas too! I plan on those being lunch this week, they sound pretty tasty, especially with the vodka sauce I got.
But alas....even though they make kosher for passover noodles, they don't make KFP rice...*sigh*.
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If they were kosher for Passover, I'd make them for you now anyway. But you really picked the worst timing.
When passover is over, I promise -- you are invited over, we'll make many latkes, and you can eat them. Posts: 7877 | Registered: Feb 2003
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I really like matzoh crackers, but I don't know if I like matzoh balls. I've never had them!
I think I need to drive to Ela's house for Passover. *grin*
Honestly, there must be an interfaith supper for Passover/Easter on post. I should ask my friend Paul (observant Jew) if the Temple is having something...
(Shamefully, I must admit that one of my favorite things about houses of worship is how the congregants love to have food after ceremonies. *grin*)
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My matzoh pizzas always end up kind of soggy.
There is a kosher deli near here that is advertising matzoh bagels. I expect they will bear a striking similarity to rocks.
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As far as latkes go, I frequently make them on Pesach -- there are only so many ways you can prepare potatoes, and that's one of 'em. Bit of a walk for poor blacwolve, though.
And my matzah rolls are not at all rock-like!
quote: Psst, Bob, peanut butter isn't kosher for Passover.
Maybe Bob is Sefardi?
And that would solve Val's search for KFP rice, too!
Seriously, it's a bit late now, but next year, try quinoa. It's definitely not rice, but I know some people who use it as a substitute during Pesach.
Elizabeth, ask me again when my year-round cookbooks are back out. I have several good honey-cake recipes.
*Sefardim eat legumes and rice on Pesach; Ashkenazim don't.
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Raia's recipe must require flour. Besides, with the amount of cooking that likely needs to be done in her house tomorrow, surely you wouldn't ask her to make another dish . . . ?
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Yeah, like any grain, I would expect you'd have to check quinoa pretty carefully - and considering how small the grains are, not a job I would pick to do on Erev Pesach. Posts: 5771 | Registered: Nov 2000
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The only time I ever had matzah was when a Jewish lady came to my class and made some Jewish stuff for us to eat. I don't remember what the matzah tasted like, but I did like the latkahs. I wish I could remember what else she made for us.
(As a side note, I can't stand eating "Passover supper" at church. I'm using the term supper loosely. All we eat is a shred of lamb and a sprig of parsley or something like that. *grimace*)
Matzah brei is best made with sugar. Then serve with butter melting on top and a dollop of jam. *drool*
I'm so glad I don't have to cook for the seders! (Yay for going to relatives! ) I'm still trying to get up enough energy to make almond cookies and matzah brittle.
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We don't make any desserts for Pesach - my mother just buys the cakes and cookies and so forth, because making a cake without flour can be quite complicated - and the first few times my mother tried, twenty years ago or so, they tended to flop. The store-bought Pesach cakes are amazing, anyway - at least some of them are. You'd never be able to guess that they're made without any sort of flour at all!
Food, though - we've been cooking all day. Two roasts, four pans of chicken, at least six kugels, fish, soup, not to mention various side-dishes.... We've made the Seder at our house for as long as I can remember, so there's a LOT of food to make.
We go through a ridiculous amount of potatoes - more than 100 pounds - and my mother bought a fifty pound bag of onions. Each onion in the ultra-large sack is significantly larger than my fist - and I happen to have big hands. Not to mention the twenty dozen eggs or so.... 18 gallons of water.... And of course, matzoh. We go through at least 12 pounds of hand Shmurah matzoh, not to mention machine Shmurah matzoh....
Matzoh brei is DELICIOUS - I agree with whoever mentioned that. I can't imagine how people who don't eat gebroks manage....
I at lunch at about 2:00, and aside from whatever nosh I can find, my next meal won't be until about 11:00 or 12:00 at night. Help!
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If only it didn't mean sitting through 4-6 hours of haggadah, I'd muster up the courage to sit in on a seder for the food.
Heh. I even make meatballs with matzoh meal (though not the kind that's kosher for passover, since that's less easily found). Mmm. I haven't made those in ages.
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Can't wait a couple weeks, Elizabeth? Ok, here's one that looks to be similar to my mother's recipe. Except I'm pretty sure that instead of a cup each honey and sugar, she just uses two cups honey.
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*giggle* I know. I was referring to my earlier post, where I said
quote: Elizabeth, ask me again when my year-round cookbooks are back out. I have several good honey-cake recipes.
Ok, almond cookies currently baking. Apple kugel (pudding) and carrot kugel, done.
Now I have to decide whether I'm making matzah crunch when the cookies come out. We'll see whether so-TIRED or love-it-and-so-do-my-sibs wins. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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