Gifted Gourmet

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Wow, that sounds great! Maybe I could tweak it a little, or maybe the carbs won't add up to too much. I couldn't find a recipe at eGullet, though. Can you point me to a recipe? http://www.jmdl.com/guitar/marian/Recipes/chrumalm.htm Can you see where the carbs are lurking in this recipe? It does look luscious though! Tweak away!!

Funny how things look better from afar ....

Wait! This was something like 15-18 years ago .... and we live in Atlanta which is the home of CocaCola so anything is possible ...

As a teenager, since we were off from school the whole week, we would go shopping in Manhattan during chol moed. We were too embarrassed to eat our matzo sandwiches in public so we'd eat them in a dressing room at Saks while supposedly trying on clothes On the intermediate days of Passover, my daughter, who was on her school vacation, and I hit the malls with our matzos, KP yogurt, and small bottles of CocaCola which was also kosher for Pesach .... we took little lunch sacks with our "stash" .... once while she was trying on clothes at the Gap, she dropped the glass bottle, the bottom of it fell out, and Coke flooded the dressing room .. we snuck out after trying to dab it up ... but it was the Gap, not Saks, like Bloviatrix mentioned ...

Still Passover-related and food topically correct: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/nyregion/09CIRC.html?hp

Your links are mouthwateringly appropriate for the Worst Passover Candy Ever thread!! Thanks for the great laugh!! The maple flavored fruit slices?? ewwwwwww!

Maybe he likes his vanilla bean ice cream on the savoury side ....

Yup, I read it. I just wanted to suggest that perhaps it's only the Manischewitz brand that is so particularly bad......................or, not. Trust me, some of us don't like anything made by Joyva either ... I have occasionally named it "Joyless" because it is so damned artificial ....

Funny you should ask, boychik!! http://jewish.com/askarabbi/askarabbi/askr4755.htm One can wrap the afikomen in either knapkins or cloth .. doubt that it matters ...

GefilteMallows, now in horseradish flavor! morda Nice work, morda, very nice!! Welcome to my fantasy world where pretty much everything makes sense ....

bushey, Hope you read the scathing attack some of these dreadful candy concoctions (not able to use the word confections here!!)received! They, your comments, reflect pretty much what we have been whining about!!

Why so long? Do you have one of those War and Peace hagaddahs? I like that comment, Jason! ... I think one can opt to embellish or not, depending upon the age of the participants ... my mother is 92 and is finished with the entire story by the end of the first cup ... whereas my brother, a nouveau chasid, loves to expound and go on and on ... to my way of thinking, he does it in slow motion so it can become quite excruciating ... I want to press the button that fast forwards the seder at times!!.... but he is sweet so we allow him this small mishegas ... When one "finishes" by the clock is often considered a barometer of one's religious devotion to the holiday, so one dare not "rush" the process .. only happens once or twice per year ...

what a bummer, G.G. I bought the double-chocolate-dipped macaroons too. I was planning to save them for a few days, until I was good & sick of Passover food & needed a treat. Right now, I'm staring down a canister of Manischewitz Cappuccino Chip macaroons. Not bad. For macaroons. ah, Gifted Gourmet, I mis read your earlier post. You had the double-dipped matzah -- I have the double-dipped macaroons, which I opened last night in your honor. They're pretty good, almost like black forest cake, although I checked the ingredients & there are no cherries in there. Kind of tastes like it. Which worries me a bit. which I opened last night in your honor. They're pretty good, but did you offer a hearty "L'chaim" as you downed the succulent little morsels?? no cherries, huh? why am I not surprised in the least??? thanks for the "update" ... next year I will shop with a printout of this thread .. lest I forget the sting of the Pesach candy in the ensuing months of the year!!

So THAT'S where that started! As always, you are a veritable font of information... I think the more precise wording might read "a veritable font of extraneous misinformation" .. something my father was famous for ... he knew trivia before there was an internet, a Google .. how he would have loved that!!

We actually contemplated such a thing calling it "Matzoblog from Hell" .. but were so damned busy with our complaining about the cleaning and prep that it got lost in the shuffle ... next year the blog .. from Jerusalem, to be sure!!

How about "The Brisket that Devoured Cleveland" at your local multiplex?? Mine was delightful!! The frozen turkey still sitting in my freezer and very bemacht!!!

Wouldn't be nearly so revelatory if one just sees backs of these men .... and then too who would buy that on black velvet?? Doesn't the photographer always get everyone at the table to stand on one side during Bar/Bat Mitzvah dinner-dances??

Oh yeah.. and Yul looks awesome as he gets into that Pharoah combat military getup, in that scene right before he jumps into the chariot to chase down the Hebrews. Its not Pharoah's fault, really, though. I think Nefretiri was the ultimate nagging bitch wife that sent him over the edge. It's always the wife as the plague no one dares to mention!

Well said! But it is Cecil's "vision" which sold many tickets and remains our classic "take" on the Passover ... I still lipsync the lines as I watch it ...

The white stripe comment is terrific!! I think it must be ersatz marshmallow to separate the inner fruity pleasure from the "rind" , in other words, pith (no laughing please!!)... it is a trompe d'oeuil feat of engineering!! Pure genius .. now all it needs is some real flavor and zing!!

Indeed!! Katie Loeb has done a masterful job of explaining the Seder of Passover in the finest detail ... and it is like the movie with Charleton Heston, only a lot shorter (and no Edward G. Robinson menacingly intoning "Ah, my sweet lily of the Nile"...), and we do re-run the seder and the meal every year without paying royalties!

Now that is truly hysterical!! Thanks!!

Very impressed with everything I had at Scoma's a few years back .. thanks for reminding me about it!! I adore Sausalito!

Is that meant like "in a food fight" or "into the garbage"??