Passover

So I asked my friendly neighborhood Jew and SHE DID NOT KNOW WHERE MATZAH MEAL CAME FROM! I mean, does it come from a matzah plant? What the hell??????

xpost oooooooh, I LOVE me some brisket!

Matzah is awful. I refuse to eat it. Unless it's fried matzah, because fried matzah is awesome.

I like to eat matzah (is that what you call the cracker stuff or do you call that something like "matzah cracker?") with butter and a little salt.

This is actully the second thread today in which I've seen reference to "pulses." Is this a UK thing, 'cause I have no idea what that is, either!

How does one fuck up charoset? It's the easiest thing to make, that's why we used to assign it to my grandfather.

http://www.paleotimes.org/images/matzo.jpg

How exactly is this horseradish used in the Passover sense (creamy horseradish spread on matah=idea I must pursue)?

Let us now recall the GEFILTE wars from the Rosh Hashanah thread.

why the fuck would you try to make it out of matzo meal??!??! that would be about as dense as a neutron star.

the only passover kugel is POTATO kugel which is made basically the same way as regular potato kugel, of which im making about 10 lbs of come saturday.

10 potatoes, peeled if you wish, grated or food processed, then drained of moisture with a strainer
1-2 onions, (or to taste) grated/food processed
3-4 eggs, probably the more eggs, the richer it is
1/2 cup matzo meal(/flour if not pascal)
1/4 cup oil
a good amount of salt
black pepper to taste

mix all this together in a giant bowl, put it in a greased pan so that the stuff is about 2 inches high, bake at 350ºF for 1.5-2 hours till nice golden brown on top. I hate when cooked potatoes have any hardness left to them, so I'm going for closer to 2 hours.

pretty easy except for the mass grating of potatoes.

i forget what gin is made from. Sake should be ok if your sephardic.

mmm...sake...

Me too. I'm devoid of any spirituality and was born as such but if there's any religion I should've been born into it should've been Judaism as it's the only one I feel some affinity for.

Like, grown up me is an atheist so I don't think of myself as episcopalian, even though I was raised in that faith and that is the faith of my parents, etc. . . the same sort of thing does or does not apply to Judaism? Anyone?

Am I making any sense?

What makes a good babka? and other questions about traditional Jewish desserts

is one still popularly identified as Jewish even if one is completely secular

short answer: yes, and in fact this was the reason behind my response to Ian's comment

Rather than bread, I think I'll end Passover with an assload of beer. That worked out really well last year.

Isn't this pretty inconsequential in light of crab being non-kosher?

Isn't this pretty inconsequential in light of crab being non-kosher?

To learn more, see Maimonides - Laws of Chometz and Matzah 5:1; Code of Jewish Law - OC 453; Igros Moshe OC 3:63.

I didn't realize that. But if you're eating unkosher food that prepared kosher for passover aren't you still doing wrong?

Yes, I followed the rules of Passover (no shrimp during Passover, or any other time of the year for that matter) but I wasn't consistent with my usual habits (I like shrimp). If the shrimp had been breaded, it would have been a different story. OTOH, I don't buy kosher meat so you could argue that the chicken I ate tonight is just as unkosher as the shrimp I passed up over the weekend.

most jews in america don't keep kosher. but passover is a religious holiday and a lot of jewish people want to do something ceremonial to keep those ties to their roots. so they do the "kosher for passover" thing and fast on yom kippur and go on with their lives. i don't think it's particularly hypocritical. it's about having a couple of days out of the year where you recognize those old-world traditions.

http://www.judaism.com/gif-bk/80389a.gif

it really is worth it to get the genuine huggable matzah ball. the knock-off ones give you a rash

I always eat way too many macaroons. Favorite are Manichevitz chocolate chip.

I love the Hillel sandwich why because it tastes intersting.

I try to do the unleavened kosher for Passover but usually some Gentile will trick me into eating cake on the last day, arguing with me over when the holiday ends.

what's passover like round your way?

Sometimes (including this year) I visit my parents. We invite the widow over, eat lamb and boiled egg and parsley and matzo ball soup. Then we play bridge, while the dog jumps on the table and eats a golf-ball shaped hole in the honey cake.

I like the idea of the stupid son.

it only occurred to me now that the reason the GHMB looked just a bit small for hugging (lol, matzoh ball is hueg) was because it might not be meant for adults. i have to see my sister's plague kit.

i was holding onto the possibility that my mom had invented 'hillel sandwich', but i'm glad it's found elsewhere as well.

my parents are abandoning me for grandma, tho i may join them if i can and the crowd isn't too large already. i might end up leading a seder - lol?

oh yeah, the hillel sandwich is in the hagaddah isn't it

happy pesach!

wtf with bay area "matzah shortage"?! By Saturday night, every single grocery store in town was completely out of matzah and matzo meal.

Matzah blows. Sorry.

-- Hurting (Hurting), Friday, April 22, 2005 11:29 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION.

We didn't do Passover this year, as my Grandparents, who usually host, are on the other side of the country. Usually it's the seder with the reading and the singing and the wine and the plagues and the haroset and the bitter herbs and the matzoh ball soup and family arguments.

Plagues are A++++ would visit them on Egypt again.