Happy Passover!
A very late happy Passover to everyone!
I meant to take pictures of everything as we did the seder, (seder is the Hebrew word for order and is the special dinner that tells the story of Passover) but everything kind of got away from me so... here's a few pictures instead.
This is the seder plate. Going clockwise you can see the roasted egg, shank bone (really a turkey drumstick that's been frozen a reused for a good decade now), an orange (more on that below), parsley and charosets. In the center is horseradish.
Charosets represents the mortar used by the Jewish slaves to build the pyramids, etc in Egypt. I make two kinds, the traditional Ashkenazi version with apples, walnuts, sugar and wine and a Sephardic version with dried fruit (raisins, currants, dates, prunes), nuts and wine.
New this year is the orange, my 15 yr old daughter learned about it and asked we included it. It was first added to the seder plate by Susannah Heschel, a gesture of solidarity with Jewish lesbians and gay men, and others who are marginalized within the Jewish community. (More info here.)
Here's the matzoh cover my mom's had forever and we use every year. It has 3 pieces of matzot inside, the middle piece is broken in two during the seder and hidden as the afikoman. My kids are way too old for this tradition but hey, tradition and all that.
And here are my candlesticks, we got them as a wedding present from my parents, way back when.
I meant to take pictures of everything as we did the seder, (seder is the Hebrew word for order and is the special dinner that tells the story of Passover) but everything kind of got away from me so... here's a few pictures instead.
This is the seder plate. Going clockwise you can see the roasted egg, shank bone (really a turkey drumstick that's been frozen a reused for a good decade now), an orange (more on that below), parsley and charosets. In the center is horseradish.
Charosets represents the mortar used by the Jewish slaves to build the pyramids, etc in Egypt. I make two kinds, the traditional Ashkenazi version with apples, walnuts, sugar and wine and a Sephardic version with dried fruit (raisins, currants, dates, prunes), nuts and wine.
New this year is the orange, my 15 yr old daughter learned about it and asked we included it. It was first added to the seder plate by Susannah Heschel, a gesture of solidarity with Jewish lesbians and gay men, and others who are marginalized within the Jewish community. (More info here.)
Here's the matzoh cover my mom's had forever and we use every year. It has 3 pieces of matzot inside, the middle piece is broken in two during the seder and hidden as the afikoman. My kids are way too old for this tradition but hey, tradition and all that.
And here are my candlesticks, we got them as a wedding present from my parents, way back when.