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So, we're utterly, completely, 100% self-isolating in my house, due to serious health risk factors. But we're having a ZOOM seder with relatives on both coasts, which is something we would not have done, if not for the pandemic. I have a wonderful neighbor who picks up things from the grocery for me. I'm trying to throw together a Passover festive meal from what we have in the house, and I'd love to hear other people's ideas, too.
For the seder plate, if I can get it, a piece of horseradish root. If we cannot get it, I found some wasabi powder in the pantry - I can mix up some of it, and it should definitely serve as bitter herb on the seder plate! If the grocery has shank bones, great. If not, we'll open a can of beets and roast some and put that on the seder plate - at least it's blood red! If there's parsley, great. If not, I still have a little fresh cilantro. Fortunately, we have apples, walnuts, and sweet wine for haroset in the house already.
For the meal: I already have a lot of matzoh. I'll grind some as finely as I can, and make matzoh balls from meal, oil, spices, and eggs, and boil them in bouillon cube broth. I have a couple of containers of chicken broth - I'll make the soup from that, throw in carrots and celery I have. If fresh dill is available, great, otherwise I do have some dried.
I have some salmon in the freezer - can make a fish course from that. Maybe I'll ask the neighbor to try and find frozen gefilte fish loaf, and horseradish in the jar.
For the main course, I tried to get the family (only 3 of us are home) to agree to a roast chicken, but husband not keen on it. I have a few frozen corned beefs. I recall a girlfriend's mother made the most wonderful glazed corned beef, like a glazed ham. I found a simple recipe, gonna try that.
I have Trader Joe's frozen green beans that are like harticorts vert, so I'll lightly saute those in olive oil. And I have potatoes and onions, so I can make a starch dish from that. I have NEVER found a potato kugel that I liked. We have roasted potatoes and onions in olive oil often, so I need something that is more festive, and has no dairy, and doesn't rely on exotic ingredients.
I have no desert ideas, but I do have canned peaches and canned pineapple. Maybe I can do something with that.
So, we're utterly, completely, 100% self-isolating in my house, due to serious health risk factors. But we're having a ZOOM seder with relatives on both coasts, which is something we would not have done, if not for the pandemic. I have a wonderful neighbor who picks up things from the grocery for me. I'm trying to throw together a Passover festive meal from what we have in the house, and I'd love to hear other people's ideas, too.
For the seder plate, if I can get it, a piece of horseradish root. If we cannot get it, I found some wasabi powder in the pantry - I can mix up some of it, and it should definitely serve as bitter herb on the seder plate! If the grocery has shank bones, great. If not, we'll open a can of beets and roast some and put that on the seder plate - at least it's blood red! If there's parsley, great. If not, I still have a little fresh cilantro. Fortunately, we have apples, walnuts, and sweet wine for haroset in the house already.
For the meal: I already have a lot of matzoh. I'll grind some as finely as I can, and make matzoh balls from meal, oil, spices, and eggs, and boil them in bouillon cube broth. I have a couple of containers of chicken broth - I'll make the soup from that, throw in carrots and celery I have. If fresh dill is available, great, otherwise I do have some dried.
I have some salmon in the freezer - can make a fish course from that. Maybe I'll ask the neighbor to try and find frozen gefilte fish loaf, and horseradish in the jar.
For the main course, I tried to get the family (only 3 of us are home) to agree to a roast chicken, but husband not keen on it. I have a few frozen corned beefs. I recall a girlfriend's mother made the most wonderful glazed corned beef, like a glazed ham. I found a simple recipe, gonna try that.
I have Trader Joe's frozen green beans that are like harticorts vert, so I'll lightly saute those in olive oil. And I have potatoes and onions, so I can make a starch dish from that. I have NEVER found a potato kugel that I liked. We have roasted potatoes and onions in olive oil often, so I need something that is more festive, and has no dairy, and doesn't rely on exotic ingredients.
I have no desert ideas, but I do have canned peaches and canned pineapple. Maybe I can do something with that.
Please, chime in with your ideas, accommodations.
Your proposed menu is perfect. Easy desert? chilled canned peaches would do beautifully with whipped milk/cream and sprinkle nuts as a garnish (optional).
To make the potatoes a little more festive, try black olives and sprinkles of paprika. Maybe even mayo mixed with all of the above.
What is a Passover meal? Does that mean no meat.......or what are the restrictions for it? Sry..........I've never seen it before.
The Last Supper was a Passover Seder meal. The one strict rule is no leavened foods, like bread, pasta, anything that used a rising agent, or has uncooked wheat in contact with water for more than 18 minutes from mixing to baking. We eat an unleavened cracker called Matzah. Jewish communities from different parts of the world interpreted it differently, so some communities can eat things like rice and legumes, others won't.
But we're having a ZOOM seder with relatives on both coasts, which is something we would not have done, if not for the pandemic.
This is a great idea! It's just going to be the 4 of us and we're going to do a really deconstructed version of a Seder. No Haggadah, but rather have a discussion of the holiday and have my youngest read the 4 questions. I am Reform and pretty nonobservant and I don't keep kosher, let alone kosher for Passover, which leaves me a lot of options. I am picking up a brisket at our local BBQ place (I've made 2 attempts at brisket that were seriously subpar, so I'm done trying and nobody here likes chicken). I'm making matzoh ball soup, charoset, and I have all the ingredients for the seder plate. I couldn't find matzah at the store yesterday, so I'm going to try one other place. If I can't find it there, I guess I'll have to skip it.
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The Last Supper was a Passover Seder meal. The one strict rule is no leavened foods, like bread, pasta, anything that used a rising agent, or has uncooked wheat in contact with water for more than 18 minutes from mixing to baking. We eat an unleavened cracker called Matzah. Jewish communities from different parts of the world interpreted it differently, so some communities can eat things like rice and legumes, others won't.
Thank you for taking your time to answer this for me.
Wooohooo!!! I got frozen loaf gefilte fish! The assistant rabbi at one of the synagogues posted that she'd bought, ahead of time, enough for an army, and now of course won't use even half of it. So she dropped one on my doorstep. I brought it in with gloves, washed the plastic covered cardboard box three times over with dish soap, and popped it in the freezer. We don't have any of the jarred horseradish, but I have a chunk of fresh horseradish, and canned beets, so maybe I'll look up how to make my own horseradish, for the gefilte fish.
We decided to have our own 3 person seder before the zoom seder, because we like to sing all the songs, every verse, in Hebrew.
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