Passover 2002–2005

[Gifted Gourmet]

Tomorrow - charoset!

From what I have read here, you are the undisputed Queen of Charoset! I think everyone in one thread was singing the praises of your Separdic charoset last year, no?

When I Google charoset, your picture comes up! If that ain't validation, I don't know what is!!

[KatieLoeb]

When I Google charoset, your picture comes up! If that ain't validation, I don't know what is!! 

It's validating, but oddly disturbing as well!

[Gifted Gourmet]

When I Google charoset, your picture comes up! If that ain't validation, I don't know what is!! 

It's validating, but oddly disturbing as well!

Deal with it, Katie, you are a bona fide legend on this particular topic!

[bloviatrix]

Tomorrow - charoset!

I'm another one who wants to try your recipe. That's the whole reason I posted the question regarding e-mailing recipes. I wanted my mil to look at it in advance to make sure she had all the ingredients.

[KatieLoeb]

I guess this is the closest I'll get to being Homecoming, Crustacean, Gilroy Garlic or whatever Queen.

I am the Charoset Queen!

I need a sash and a tiara, dammit!

I've been making it the same way for so long, I get bored. So tomorrow I'll be using little chopped bits of crystallized ginger instead of powdered ginger to see how that works.

Everyone that makes the Katie Charoset has to report back and let me know how it came out. And if their family and firends liked it.

[Gifted Gourmet]

I need a sash and a tiara, dammit!

and your orb and sceptre, your imperial condimentship! why do I hear the melodious strains of Bert Parks intoning "There she is, Miss Charosetship"?? and no nude pictures, ya hear?

Everyone that makes the Katie Charoset has to report back and let me know how it came out. And if their family and firends liked it.

two possible answers to this:

(1) It required extra glyburide after ingestion .... and

(2) if the family and friends (fiends??) got over the shock of truly cosmopolitan, gourmet charoset after years of regular, unleaded, unimaginative charoset prep ....

[hillvalley]

I need a sash and a tiara, dammit!

Will this work?

[Rabbi Ribeye]

I need a sash and a tiara, dammit!

Will this work?

For what? I thought John Holmes and Linda Lovelace were dead and that Harry Reems became a baal teshuvah. Anyways, being a rabbi, that's what they tell me.

[Rabbi Ribeye]

  Kids were eating ham sandwiches, but it was on matzoh which made it okay. 

and, sad to say, I just may have been such a kid .... and not of the Chad Gadya variety!!

Fortunately, under the guidance of wise rabbis who shall remain nameless, I learned the "error of my ways" and have reformed ... no, wait, I was Reformed, now more aware of the ramifications of kashrut ....

Ah, and I remember the Reubens on matzo at Wolfie's and Hamm's beer with your Seder dinner at Batt's (CHICAGOAN ALERT!!!)

[KatieLoeb]

I need a sash and a tiara, dammit!

Will this work?

I'm sorry. That one only works for the Cruciferous Queen, I think.

Does the first runner up take my place if I cannot "fulfill my duties" when some hateful ex-boyfriend or past condiment rival causes those nude pictures to surface ?

[SarahB]

Another dessert question ... Should/can a sponge cake with yolks be served after a meat meal?

Many thanks for the suggestion of serving the cake with berries. That sounds lovely.

[Gifted Gourmet]

All parts of an egg are pareve and can be eaten with either milk or meat dishes, during, before, and after .... thanks for asking!

[SarahB]

Thank you! And now for my first experiment in unleavened baking.

[Gifted Gourmet]

Does the first runner up take my place if I cannot "fulfill my duties" when some hateful ex-boyfriend or past condiment rival causes those nude pictures to surface ?

I, and not a seraph, will take your place and accept the college scholarship and car!!

The nude photos? Bet that will make many a seder's charoset stand up and quiver!!

think I am avoiding the Passover prep by continuing this thread??

res ipsa loquitur ....

[Fat Guy]

So, the Passover plans are in place for seder number one at my mother's place tomorrow night. Looks like 19 people, 4 of whom are kids whose parents think it's wrong to tell their kids they can't eat everything and anything they want, or not, whenever they want, so they'll all just eat potato chips or whatever. So it's really a meal for 15.

Ellen made the charoset from her family's old Sephardic recipe (dried apricots, plums, prunes, and raisins, fresh apples, sweet wine, walnuts, cinnamon, nutmeg) yesterday. Gefilte fish was purchased from Fairway's fish counter. The three (yes, three) briskets are in my mother's oven as we speak (she's also making stuffed cabbage!). Tomorrow I'll go over -- I'm bringing a gratuitous salad -- and assist with the sweet potato and carrot tsimmes, chicken soup with matzoh balls, and the various seder plate items. My neighbor made chopped liver, so that should lighten up the meal a bit. Dessert is a flourless chocolate cake from Soutine (a nice bakery in NYC), plus sliced pineapple (three whole pineapples), grapes, and of course the entries in the worst-kosher-candy competition. I bought the wines at Stew Leonard's (they have a good kosher selection). I think that's it.

[Gifted Gourmet]

Come Gifted, it's time for you to spill.  What  embarassing thing goes on at YOUR seder?

I have avoided this question meticulously and scrupulously, bloviatrix, for some 24 hours ... now I can tell you how it goes during the seder ....

My inspiration for the proper Pesach seder comes directly from my first rabbi in Atlanta some twenty years ago, the one and only Rabbi Ribeye himself ...

our families were close friends at his shul here in Atlanta (not the promised land exactly!) and we, our assorted spouses, parents, and children, spent a number of sederim together as he led one of the finest, most authentic, yet hysterically funny, seders anyone could ever wish for!

They were a balagan, yet a memorable and totally edifying experience, for all the participants present ..if you read his Passover article here in the Daily Gullet, you will recognize the bottle caps his beloved mother, Sophie, put into her eyes, looking for all the world like Little Orphan Annie! During the singing of "Echod Mi Yodeah", the various choruses were presented with appropriate barnyard sounds ... perhaps he might better explain this ....

So many years ago these seders captured our imaginations and became a treasure which we cherished, as we did the friendship ...

things have changed significantly over the years for everyone, as Marc's article delineates ... he writes with passionate insight and sensitivity in all of his offerings, yet it is this one, in particular, which brings me to tears ...

and, although some of it has been subtly interwoven in our own seder today, it ain't the same really ....

[bloviatrix]

All parts of an egg are pareve and can be eaten with either milk or meat dishes, during, before, and after .... thanks for asking!

Actually, I recently learned that there is a fleishig egg. I'm not quite sure what it comes from (although I hope to learn that at a later date). So, it's probably more precise to say chicken eggs are pareve.

[afoodnut]

All parts of an egg are pareve and can be eaten with either milk or meat dishes, during, before, and after .... thanks for asking!

Actually, I recently learned that there is a fleishig egg. I'm not quite sure what it comes from (although I hope to learn that at a later date). So, it's probably more precise to say chicken eggs are pareve.

One instance of a fleishig egg: If I remember correctly, I think I learned that if an egg is found in a chicken when the chicken is slaughtered, it is considered fleishig.

[Gifted Gourmet]

All parts of an egg are pareve and can be eaten with either milk or meat dishes, during, before, and after .... thanks for asking!

Actually, I recently learned that there is a fleishig egg. I'm not quite sure what it comes from (although I hope to learn that at a later date). So, it's probably more precise to say chicken eggs are pareve.

One instance of a fleishig egg: If I remember correctly, I think I learned that if an egg is found in a chicken when the chicken is slaughtered, it is considered fleishig.

if an egg is found in a chicken when the chicken is slaughtered, it is considered fleishig.

Which is traditionally served in chicken soup especially if it has double yolks, if I recall correctly ... in any event, the regular chicken egg packed in styrofoam by the dozen is more than likely parve ... bloodspots are yet another thing altogether ... those go into the disposal for some of us ...

[JFLinLA]

Almond Macaroons -- done

Brown sugar, cinnamon pecan macaroons -- done

Bite-size chocolate almond brownies -- done

"Matzah brittle" -- done

Farfel muffins -- in the oven as I'm typing this.

Will make the meringue cookies later today -- I think my daughter want mint chocolate chip

Will make the batter for the chocolate sparkle cookies tonight to chill and bake tomorrow morning.

(Gotta make sure I have enough treats in the house for the kids when I go back to work later in the week. Will probably make another batch of one or more of the above during the week.)

Tomorrow perhaps another batch of muffins and the sephardic casserole recipe I've been meaning to try for years.

Then off to mom's in the early afternoon.

Hope you all find the afikomen!

[KatieLoeb]

Made the charoset this afternoon. It came out a bit sharper and spicier with the crystallized ginger rather than the powder, but it's good that I bought the crystallized because I was almost out of ground ginger and didn't realize it. It came out a bit chunkier than usual too, but I think that's because I was feeling lazy and not dicing the fresh apple and pears as small as usual. I remain your humble servant, Charoset Queen.

And would someone please return that Brussel Sprout Sceptre and Orb to my esteemed colleague Cruciferous Queen? She's probably looking for it by now

I hope everyone's preparations are done or close to done so we might all enjoy a nice peaceful and joyous holiday with family and friends on Monday evening.

A Gut Yontif to all! Next Year in Jerusalem!

[Gifted Gourmet]

I hope everyone's preparations are done or close to done so we might all enjoy a nice peaceful and joyous holiday with family and friends on Monday evening.

A Gut Yontif to all!  Next Year in Jerusalem!

Todah rabbah, Queen de Charoset Sephardiques!!

Will be honored to meet you in Jerusalem, G-d willing, with the rest of your loyal, devoted "subjects" .... and to sit at your learned feet to hear tales so exquisite on the fruit of the vine!

Thank you for all your banter and good humor and learning on this topic at this glorious season, Katie!

A marvelous Pesach to you too!!

[Raynickben]

Can I use molasses?

[Gifted Gourmet]

Can I use molasses?

The quick and humorous answer is, of course, one can not use any part of the mole for Passover ...

a more serious answer can be found here on a knowledgeable and reputable site:

http://www.okkosher.com/kfgProducts.asp?ir...EY+%26+MOLASSES

Edited April 5, 2004 by Gifted Gourmet (log)

[Gifted Gourmet]

Just when you thought you'd seen pretty much everything, comes this from Jewish World Review:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/kosher/pa...rinter_friendly

I like their title "Tastes Great, Less Chometz" .....

Edited April 5, 2004 by Gifted Gourmet (log)