<p>Quick and Easy: Charoset (for 10 people)</p>
<p>2 Apples, pared and cored and quartered
1 cup of walnuts
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
2 tablespoons of sugar
1/2 cup Manechevitz Grape Wine</p>
<p>Place first 4 ingredients in cuisinart and chop (I use the pulse setting) until desired consistency (some like it chunkier). Mix in wine. Refridgerate until needed. Put some on seder plate and rest in small bowl on the table for use in the seder service.</p>
<p>I might double this ^^^ if your family/guests love charoset and like to eat more of it (than is needed for the two “sandwiches” in the service).</p>
<p>I am sorry that I originally misread your post Rodney. I personally would use 4 apples worth (double the recipe) because my kids like to eat the leftovers the next few days on matzah for a snack.</p>
<p>^^Thanks so much!!..</p>
<p>and, yes, that is my recipe but given my Mom hasn’t used an actual recipe…umm…ever?, I needed to figure out quantities…</p>
<p>I may even triple it and leave some home for us for the weekend…</p>
<p>Hey paying3tuitions–I made the Best Pesach Cookies in the World tonight (see post 524) and I’m happy to report that they are not only delicious, but also idiot proof! I bought a can of almonds without having noted the amount in the recipe, so only had 9 ounces instead of 10; I forgot to get an orange, so used the rind of two clementines; since none of us is very fond of the taste of almond extract, I just doubled the vanilla; and because I didn’t feel like pulling out the blender, I ground the almonds in the food processor that was already on the counter (guessing this gave me a coarser grind). I think because of the smaller amount of almonds (I didn’t adjust the rest of the recipe, because the thought of cutting every ingredient–including the egg whites!–by 10% was too exhausting), the dough was a lot stickier than it should have been and harder to handle (my cookies are more lumps than diamonds–H called them turd-like actually), but I added an extra minute in the oven to compensate, and the cookies firmed up nicely by the time they cooled. I had even managed to find Passover confectioners sugar (thanks momof3sons!). So, a big success, and thanks so much for the recipe. I think the cookies would be especially nice served alongside a scoop of the sorbet I mentioned above.(Btw, I’m not 100% convinced the cake meal/sugar layer on the cookie sheet is necessary–next time I’m going to experiment just using non-stick foil, which I find to be a godsend for all kinds of baking). </p>
<p>Too tired to check and see if it’s been posted on this thread before, but I make this gefilte fish terrine every year, and it’s very popular, especially with those who dislike the stuff in the jar (my fish store grinds the fish for me):</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Ellyn-Goodrichs-Alaskan-Halibut-and-Salmon-Gefilte-Fish-Terrine-Pareve-102011[/url]”>http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Ellyn-Goodrichs-Alaskan-Halibut-and-Salmon-Gefilte-Fish-Terrine-Pareve-102011</a></p>
<p>I have a new passover recipe!</p>
<p>Start with one tired mom sitting in her jammies at the computer on a Friday morning.
Add one sweet college senior who drove through the night to surprise his parents for Passover.</p>
<p>Mix well. Post surprised but very happy post on Facebook wall!!</p>
<p>Great recipe for happiness!!! Happy passover everyone!! I kow we will enjoy it a bit more now!!</p>
<p>What a wonderful surprise, jym626. My 2 sons and 1 gf will be arrving tonight. It’ll be the first time both kids are home for Passover at the same time in 8 years. Very happy.</p>
<p>Brisket is done; just baked brownies I got the recipe for from CC. Still have some shopping and cooking to do.</p>
<p>Happy Passover to everyone.</p>
<p>^^^^Awwwww, Jym…that is GREAT! 
My college S arrived home last night…glad to have him home and so is his h.s. brother!</p>
<p>Heading over to mil’s right now…bringing all kinds of goody dishes. There are 14 people but we make enough food for about triple that! Oy, 3 families will divide up all the leftovers.</p>
<p>Enjoy!! :)</p>
<p>ENJOY EVERYONE!! Happy Passover!</p>
<p>Happy Passover other celebrators! I wish my D could come home for the Seder. Her cousins miss her something fierce (they’re 6 to 16), they haven’t seen her since Aug 2010. That’s a huge gap for kids who were walking distance for years of their lives. 
sigh</p>
<p>Thanks for all the terrific recipes! Happy Passover.</p>
<p>Hope you all had some great seders! Both of ours were quite successful. We made too much food and sent home care packages with my mother, and brother and family. The vegan lasagna was a great hit, as was the coconut chocolate cake - like eating an extremely rich Mounds bar. All that’s left now is to finish washing the tablecloth/napkins/dish towels, and to put away the good china. See you all next year - same time, same place!</p>
<p>Coconut chocolate cake? Marilyn, which post list’s that recipe? I want to print and save it for next year!</p>
<p>Everything went well. A special thanks for the spinach casserole recipe. Everyone liked it, including S1’s gf who’s a vegetarian. </p>
<p>I sent S2 back to DC with a care package including brownies and macaroons. I don’t know how well he’ll keep the holiday (he’d have pizza at school when he was in HS), but at least he has something appropriate to nosh.</p>
<p>And with a “will do, bye mom, love ya”, DS is back on the road for a long drive back to school. Sent him with two boxes of Passover chocolate lollypops :)</p>
<p>I have a batch of the passover brioche rolls in the oven. They are so good warm. Will be ready in time for lunch.</p>
<p>I made the spinach casserole also. It is definitely a hit. Plenty left to send back to school with DD today. I hope she will take the rest of the “bricks” also!</p>
<p>Anyway, after two seders here, as they say “Next Year in Jerusalem” – or at least in someone else’s house.</p>
<p>My parents suggested seders in FL next year at their house. I have to check the calendar. Right now, that sounds great to me.</p>
<p>In my next life, I will be jym’s housemate…I am soooo cooked out; and already have eaten too much matzoh…</p>
<p>Hoping D takes most of the baked goods back; don’t want these hanging around all week…</p>
<p>Anyone have fast, EASY weeknight meal ideas…like ones if you walk in at 7 pm from work?</p>
<p>Why wait til your “next life”? Come on over!! BTW, am making matzo balls right now too. Cheating on the chicken soup though-- bought premade.</p>
<p>I do admit that by not hosting either night this year, cooking all this stuff (and I also made an incredibly yummy asparagus dish last night- will post the recipe shortly) I dont mind making this stuff now, especially since we don’t have much in the house, and since the apricot kugel is always a hit, we leave the leftovers at the house we went to, both nights. </p>
<p>But I am with you onthe “i’ve eaten too much matzo already” front. I love it with softened butter and salt. Lo cal/fat? NOT.</p>
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<p>Omelettes
Dinner-sized salad–with chicken or tuna or anchovies for protein
Baked chicken fingers–either dredge w/seasoned matzah meal or use the prepared “Kote-n-Bake” product if you can find it in the Passover aisle. (Bakes in about 20 minutes)
Baked fish</p>
<p>For sides, basically…potatoes and more potatoes! You can boil some baby reds and reheat in the microwave as needed.</p>
<p>seiclan - here’s the cake recipe; it was posted on page 6. We made it as a half recipe for the second night after seeing how everyone ate the first night. But now we have a lot of extra chocolate and coconut! Not that there’s anything wrong with that… </p>
<p>[Recipe:</a> Chocolate-Coconut Cake](<a href=“http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/1999/sensational/cake.html#axzz1rT4qhMMI]Recipe:”>http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/1999/sensational/cake.html#axzz1rT4qhMMI)</p>
<p>I had forgotten to get milk chocolate so asked my mom to bring some (they don’t stock for Passover in our part of Chicagoland) - she could only find bear lollipops. So I entertained my 17 year old niece by telling her how I decapitated the bears. She’s a junior and hot and heavy into the college search; there’s a connection to CC! (At the moment she has a list of potential schools but is reserving a space at the top for an unknown favorite that she hopes will magically appear.)</p>
<p>We hosted both nights due to medical issues with others but there were only six of us so not bad at all. I made three pounds of chopped liver instead of two, and enough soup and matzo balls to send some home with Mom. Also made extra Passover Puffs (from Jean Nathan’s old cookbook).</p>
<p>I agree that matzo with whipped butter is one of the major reasons for observing Pesach - in honor of Weight Loss for Dummies, I only had two boards instead of three this morning. And we get Rakusen’s matzo which is slightly smaller than the major brands.</p>
<p>I used to love bologna and eggs for a quick supper until Best’s stopped making the Passover bologna chubs. Meatloaf is another easy meal to make but does take a while to cook - make ahead and just cut slices and reheat with a few sauteed little potatoes maybe? We buy Passover ketchup for this, and for DH’s traditional Russian dressing.</p>