ONE seder - with me + eight seven goyim

LOTS of wine (admittedly I was drinking white wine all day before we broke out the red at dinner)

AND NOW - have had lots of wine and we are all enjoying ellen_fremedon's Scorsese imitation (and other discourse! here in the living room!). LA ( Read more... )

Table is (here - thanks, chromodynamics! - and) set. This is officially the most people I can possibly seat in this apartment. Brisket is in the oven. I've had most of a bottle of wine over the course of the day, so right now I'm drinking coffee. Haggadot are printed. There's haroset in the salad bowl, but there's matzo balls in the haroset bowl, so it'll ( Read more... )

Matzo balls: matzo meal plus eggs plus vegetable oil.

My kitchen contains: peanut oil and olive oil.

Peanut oil is right out. Should I use the olive oil, or heave a great sigh and buy some canola?

which was:

Looks like a nasty little google-bombing party is underway for the holiday season (Passover, that is...not Easter), so that the first google hit on the word Jew is...well...suffice it to say I'm not linking to it.* Instead, I'm linking Jew to a perfectly reasonable site.

Which you should feel free to, you know...click on.

*(you know ( Read more... )

background: so i went over to the doctor this afternoon for my bi-weekly allergy shots. (rar.) mentioned, while i was over there, that although i've finished the antibiotics they were kind enough to call in to the pharmacy in utica, new york, i'm still feeling like there's a gob of something sticky in the back of my head, making my sinuses, ( Read more... )

got to curling in time for 4:45 draw. skip J says "didn't you get the message? we have the late draw today." he was there to spare for someone in the early game, but apparently the opposing skip had asked to move it later and J had lost my e-mail address and therefore posted the heads-up to the mailing list for chat and discussion (of which i am ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted just reading mamadeb's description of the preparation of the house for Passover; that's something I don't have, the kind of faith that compels a person to that sort of ... well, sadly, the only word I can think of is "slavishness," but I don't mean it the way I think that would sound to me if I were hearing it. I admire that level of ( Read more... )