Seder Menu

Independent George wrote:

Agent 13 wrote:

clothier wrote:

Didn't Jerry VanDyke have the mule that talked?

No, no...you're thinking of Wilbur Mills, the guy who was vice president until he jumped in the Potomac river with Elizabeth Taylor.

Man did I have THAT wrong. I thought the guy you were talking about was Ted Kennedy.

No...Ted Kennedy was the dude who jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Remember now?

Billy Joe Kennedy?

Was he the brother that slept under the porch with the dogs at the Compound?

laststandchili wrote:

Was he the brother that slept under the porch with the dogs at the Compound?

No. That's still Teddy.

Independent George wrote:

Do you remember the episode where Jerry Van Dyke went for a drive in the car - and it first TALKED to him???

I'm pretty sure the car was played by that Chevy Chase guy who was on the first season of that sketch comedy show "Friday Night Lights". What I could never understand is what he ever did that was such a big deal that they named a city in Maryland after him.

pastrami-on-wry wrote:

The Goddess wrote:

Our seder is tonight.

So, how was it??????????????

AMAZING. Thomas took some pictures. Really you guys...a warning as to the amount of food and the four-hour long meal would have been nice. And Thomas wore a yamakule, too! SO cute!

We did the haggadah (sp?) but once the meal started, we didn't go back to it. We all had a chance to read a part aloud. Lots of ritual, it could rival a Catholic mass for the amount of ritual. But after salt water and horseradish and a hard-boiled egg and charoset (sp?) we got down to bidness. And it was serious business. The gefilte fish wasn't bad, but it wasn't good, either. The chopped liver and egg/onion salad were awesome. The matzoh ball soup was tasty, but do those damn things expand in your stomach? Lawd. Brisket, fish, potatoes, two kinds of kugel (YAY KUGEL!) asparagus, and more sweets than you can shake a stick at. Plus I love meals where you HAVE to drink 4 glasses of wine. YUM.

It was great, great, great. And our hosts said we could come back again next year. YAY!. My matzoh buttercrunch was a big hit, too. I think my last minute decision to add some seasalt was the right one.

The Goddess wrote:

[Plus I love meals where you HAVE to drink 4 glasses of wine.

Did Thomas cry at the part where you spill the wine to represent the plagues?

pastrami-on-wry wrote:

The Goddess wrote:

[Plus I love meals where you HAVE to drink 4 glasses of wine.

Did Thomas cry at the part where you spill the wine to represent the plagues?

Nope. They used Manischewitz for that part. Luckily our host was Thomas's wine buddies (trep from TOOS) and none of that was going to happen to good stuff.

I kinda liked the bitter greens in the salt water by the way. Kinda tasty.

The Goddess wrote:

pastrami-on-wry wrote:

The Goddess wrote:

Plus I love meals where you HAVE to drink 4 glasses of wine.

Did Thomas cry at the part where you spill the wine to represent the plagues?

Nope. They used Manischewitz for that part. Luckily our host was Thomas's wine buddies (trep from TOOS) and none of that was going to happen to good stuff.

trep is a wise man. Manischewitz wine is good for 2 things:

1) Being spilled out.

2) Being added to charoset, providing moisture and sweetness.

I liked the charoset. I think it would be good on top of yogurt for breakfast.

I got in trouble for liking charoset as a kid. I wanted my mom to make it as a side dish outside of Passover and she said it was sacrilegious - as it was supposed to represent suffering and slavery and blah blah blah.....

Come to think of it...it never occurred to me, as an adult, I can pretty much make it whenever I want now. I would go home and make some - but, since it's Passover, it wouldn't really seem like I was getting away with anything.

Suddenly, I'm hungry for latkes.