Showing posts with label seder plate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seder plate. Show all posts

Sunday, April 15, 2012

It's a Wrap

When the egg carton looks like this, it’s time for Passover to be over.

And it is, for now.  Next year, in Jerusalem?

Things I learned during this Passover:

For Easter, Jesus did all the hard work.  For Passover, the women do all the hard work.

It is possible to make it through Passover without making a sponge cake.  Whether my husband will enjoy such a Passover is another question.

Regular matzo is the Bread of Affliction for those with a wheat gluten allergy.  And gluten-free matzo doesn’t come cheap.  For the second night of Passover, we visited friends who follow a gluten-free diet.  At one point in the seder, our friends’ teenaged son was reading the haggadah:  “This is the bread of poverty.... which costs $32 a box.”   

For some people, Passover lasts 7 days. 

According to my mother-in-law, “If you make the Passover brownies without the oil, you will lose weight.”


Some photos from the second seder:
The antidote to too much matzo.  Yum!

Second Seder

I love this solution to finding a lamb shankbone!

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Getting Ready for the Exodus

It's P minus 2:  2 days until the Passover Seder on Monday night.  So far I've used 16 eggs.  But I haven't made the subtle and elusive Marble Sponge Cake yet. That cake takes 10 eggs.  And 5 bowls.

Looky what you can order from Amazon.com:  Manischewitz and Tom Wright arrived in the same box!  How's that for interfaith?  I can't buy potato starch here in the grocery store, nor can I find N.T. Wright's books in the nearby bookstore.


Chicken soup.  Matzo balls still to be made (another 2 eggs there).


Baking Cake #1:  Miriam's Passover Torte.  This cake takes only 6 eggs, but requires grating the chocolate.  I did it in the food processor, and it left a fine chocolate dust all over everything.  Sounds delicious, but actually it's just messy.


Starting to set the table - the seder plate, candles, and haggadahs

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Our Christmas Seder plate



A new tradition for our family:

A Christmas Seder plate.
- lamb shankbone or tiny lamb statue, representing Jesus as the Lamb of God
- a sprig of evergreen, symbolizing new life and hope in the middle of winter
- piece of hay or grass, representing the humility of Jesus, born in humble circumstances
- gold or a small gift, symbolizing that God has given us great gifts
- angel, symbolizing bringing good news from God