<p>snowball, yes, you light candles. the blessing is the "holiday" one, not the "shabbat" one. But the shabbat candles are fine. All the best for your seder!</p>
<p>To the OP- Martha Stewart and her guest, (? Schwartz, author of Jewish Home Cooking) demonstrated some delicious looking seder recipes this morning. Check out her site for recipes (a brisket, an apple cake, & choc/white choc covered matza).</p>
<p>Just made the Matzah Brittle.....mmmm mmmm good!</p>
<p>Too bad CC doesn't have Smello-reading--my brisket is in the oven, has cooked half-way, and smells DIVINE! My poor dog is salivating and doesn't know why!</p>
<p>My dog stands by the stove while the brisket is in, and when it comes out, oh my!! She especially loves when we slice it as my husband like to "drop" several pieces!</p>
<p>Right now I am making a squash casserole about 5 hours later than I wanted. My father in law was admitted to the hospital this morning and will not make it here for Passover. I am bummed that our seder leader isn't able to join us; I wanted to cancel and have seder once he was home from the hospital, but I was out voted. Most of our food he can not have yet, but I am going to take him a piece of sponge cake tomorrow.</p>
<p>WJB's recipe for passover brownies from post #10 are in the oven. They aren't rising at all, I hope that they are still good.</p>
<p>Today I made the chicken soup, matzah balls (can't add them to the soup till tomorrow because my pot will overflow), Apple-Farfel kugel, cake layers (for the strawberry shortcake...will do fresh whipped cream and berries tomorrow), brownies and charosett. I am ready for a nap.</p>
<p>...still eating the Matzah Brittle.....I hope there is some left for tomorrow!</p>
<p>Made one batch of matzoh brittle and hid it from my kids (and my H :))</p>
<p>Just took a potato/parsnip kugel out of the oven - it smells incredible!</p>
<p>Do you think my family will notice the dog hair and pollen floating around my house? Between hospital visits and cooking, there isn't much time to clean. Of course there is time to check in here as my laptop has been moved to the kitchen and I read in between one thing and another!</p>
<p>I made three batches of Matzah Brittle and just UPSed (overnight) each of my two college daughter's a batch. They are going to be soooo happy. I have hidden our batch behind the kugel in the fridge so it makes it to the seder. If I need to, I can always make another batch for the week.</p>
<p>I'm making two more batches of Matzah Brittle tonight. I'm going to try one with Peanut Butter chips and one with Pecans. I probably also have to replace the Walnut ones that are disappearing fast. I'm also going to try the Tropical Meringues.</p>
<p>fauve, OP here. Thanks for thinking of me. I happen to have seen these recipes in Martha's magazine (which I now receive as an unsolicited replacement for another magazine that went belly up). They look delicious. I was fairly calm this evening, having finished some last minute grocery shopping on the way home from work and then setting my dining table after dinner tonight. But now that I see how much you've all accomplished, I'm feeling panicky. Haven't even begun to cook or bake. Big sigh.</p>
<p>I have to do stuff in advance or I am snorring into my gefilte fish.</p>
<p>Completely OT but I just noticed I've still got the same number of posts as I did when I started this thread more than a year ago. Wish I could maintain my age and weight as well.</p>
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<p>worrywart - I can't tell you the number of times over the last couple of days that I thought I'd been to the grocery store for the <em>last</em> few things. I may be a wee bit ahead of you in the baking/cooking dept, but you are probably way better organized. You'll catch up in no time, while I will undoubtedly be running to the store one <em>last</em> time!</p>
<p>Thanks for the kind words, PRJ, but no sooner did I get home from the store this evening than I realized I didn't get the two key ingredients for my corned beef glaze (yup, the only household that isn't serving brisket for Pesach.)</p>
<p>Well, I am waiting for "take two" of a lemon sponge cake to come out of the oven. Shortly after I inverted the first one (on a wine bottle) to cool, I went upstairs for a couple of minutes, and when I came back down, it had fallen from it's perch, and self-destructed. So, back to the store for more matzo cake meal. DH came home, looked at the first version and said, "Is this for my family tomorrow?" When I said that's what I was originally planning, his response was, "Why don't you just slice it up and put it on a plate? They'd never notice." :rolleyes:</p>
<p>seiclan -- Did the brownies come out right?</p>
<p>Is it really almost 10 pm?! I've got one more dessert to make and I've been glued to the hobnob thread!! The best entertainment on CC tonight!</p>