Passover

[av8rmike]

$15 later, and 90% of my Passover shopping is done. You gotta love Giant, selling 5 lbs. of matzah with a $9 discount at $3. I'm sure I'll have plenty left over. Now all I have to do is find wine for tonight's seder.

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[tidesong.livejournal.com]

Linking to locked posts makes the baby jesus cry. Or something. ;)

[av8rmike.livejournal.com]

His entries aren't as exciting as one might think. Basically, 18 people at the seder tonight, the largest he's hosted yet.

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good number of people. Hope you have a good time!

[fuzzy-gizmo.livejournal.com]

yeah... sorry

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

...for?

[fuzzy-gizmo.livejournal.com]

it is my "locked post"

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes. No reason to apologize for that :)

[violaman.livejournal.com]

So you cleaned out all the chametz? I'll be lucky to last a day. I have one box of matzah at home and I bet I'll have some left over next Monday.

Hooray for Extremely Reform Jews!

[av8rmike.livejournal.com]

Cleaned out? Of course not! I have probably 5 pounds of pasta and another pound of oats that I can manage to avoid for the next week. I figure with my two Jewish cookbooks, I should be set.

Not so good at avoiding the kitniyot, however.

[guinastasia.livejournal.com]

Stupid question-what is matzah/matzoh, anyways?

[av8rmike.livejournal.com]

Unleavened bread. Should I have said, "communion wafers"?

[fuzzy-gizmo.livejournal.com]

no... matza and those things are not quite the same

[av8rmike.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't actually know, having never taken communion. I had been told they were basically the same substance.

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

I've had both, and communion wafers are way more gross :P They're just very, very dry.

[guinastasia.livejournal.com]

Communion wafers? Eeeeew. They're basically edible paper. That was like the big thing when we were making our first Communion-WHAT does it taste like? It's always a disappointment. ;)

I have tasted actual unleavened bread. Not bad. I think it was in third grade. I THINK.

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

I cleaned the kitchen, and scrubbed out the cupboards last week. They look so empty! It was good to do though, all pretty and organized now.

I try not to do kitniyot, though it's hard as I'm lactose intolerant and drink almond milk. I wish the rabbinate would make a decision on quinoa- I'd love to be able to use that during pesach, but you know rabbis.

We actually did our seder last night, as life superceeded things and both first- and second-night seders weren't going to happen.

Leftovers today were good though!

[av8rmike.livejournal.com]

Almond milk? I never knew you could milk an almond. Allergic to soy, if I may ask?

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

Not allergic, but not terribly keen on it either.

I'm a fan of soybeans themselves (edemamae), and other soy products, but even those not in large quantities. I suspect that it throws my hormone balance- I have endo and keep that in check with hormonal treatment, and I wonder if the estrogens in soy make that go awry.

But yes, almond milk. The Chocolate variety of Almond Breeze is frighteningly similar to real chocolate milk I actually went and double checked the carton once, to make sure I'd gotten the right thing.

[guinastasia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just remembered! There IS a way, mind you, if you want to know what communion wafers taste like. Around Christmas and Easter, (or maybe all the time, I don't know), you can get unconsecrated wafers called oplatke. It's an old Slovak tradition. The wafers, like I said, aren't consecrated, just blessed. And at supper, when you say grace, you pass it around and everyone takes a small piece.

I don't know if the blessed part would bother you, or if it would be kosher. But for the curious, there you go. (But don't say I didn't warn you!)