Passover Meal

[lylianf]

Hi! This is my first post to this community. I hope this question is allowed. If not, please feel free to delete

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[thisgirliknow]

Hi!

Firstly, matzah is a Hebrew word, so there's no correct spelling for it. Pretty much any phonetic spelling is okay :)

My family generally has turkey, chicken soup (with matzah balls!), gefilte fish, and then pretty much anything else that would go with the meal, that is kosher (baked potatoes, salad with kosher for Passover dressing, etc).

Plus, of course all the stuff that the seder requires you to eat -- matzah, charoset, horseradish, and all that jazz.

This looks to be a good resource: http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Holidays-and-Events/Passover/Seder/Main.aspx

[seidhr]

I'm using romaine instead of horseradish this year. Still fits, but slightly more palatable.

[trempnvt]

Is the meal going to be meat? If so, I'd go with a chicken or beef main dish (with just regular spices that are kosher for Passover, or maybe a tomato sauce for beef) and a bunch of vegetable side dishes: steamed broccoli with garlic, carrot or sweet potato tzimmes, maybe some kind of sweet matzah kugel, etc.

[theonetruetiny]

Chicken, turkey or brisket seem to be the main dishes of choice. Matzah ball soup. Plenty of charoseth. I tend to enjoy steamed broccoli and carrots. Don't forget the all important forshpice of chopped liver or gefilte fish (see wierdjewstoo or wierdjews2).

[tapuz]

for those not familiar, "forshpice" = appetizer :-)

[chaiya]

It's traditional to not have lamb during the seder, for reasons I don't quite understand, but we may be doing lamb chops anyway at our place.

Traditional for us is a brisket or chicken, matzah ball soup, sweet potatoes, asparagus, salad, and ginger carrots.

[jo_bubble]

I actually asked my rabbi about the lamb, and he said the reason is because the Christians equate Jesus with being the lamb of God. Jews thought it better to just represent the paschal sacrifice, rather than eat it because of the connections with Jesus. I also think that since the Temple was destroyed, animal sacrifices aren't done anymore. Of course, this is just what my rabbi told me. I could be wrong.

[rochelle]

We're having salmon with dill cream sauce and baked red potatoes. Have whatever you like! :)