<p>I have to make charoset for 54 tonight. I'm cryin' saltwater (actually am happy about it). No other cooking, just "bring a ton of charoset." I think of it as a main food group, so plan to make plenty.</p>
<p>Perhaps my inlaws don't trust me to make real food dishes? Ah well, it's okay. They think I can't mess up chopping apples and nuts, but they are SO WRONG. I'll show them!!</p>
<p>I just ordered red snapper for my homemade gefilte fish. We'll see if it actually gets here--the fish, I mean. Jews dues is pretty funny. I grew up Lutheran and we had dues too, but it doesn't rhyme.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got a right to sing the Jews dues blues :-)...</p>
<p>bethievt, I grew up Lutheran, too...Keeping Kosher & eating matzah took some getting used to, but I wouldn't trade the joys of being a Jewish mother for anything!!!</p>
<p>My 2nd Seder dinner just grew to 30...good thing I don't know how to cook small. I always end up making way more than I need to. Something I learned from my Jewish Iranian mother-in-law.</p>
<p>Forgot to say, that we had no Mother's stick magarines and there were at least 10 others there lamenting and having panic attacks over it!!!</p>
<p>for those anticipating smaller seders than 30 or 50, i just want to say that i miss them very much as we grew up with just the immediate family plus a few</p>
<p>however you do yours, i hope it goes well for you</p>
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Yes, that's the traditional "God forbid I should run out of something" school of entertaining.
Corollary to the "God forbid someone wants something I don't have" school of entertaining.
My h goes to both schools.</p>
<p>Three briskets down, one to go.</p>
<p>One sponge cake down, one to go.</p>
<p>Kugel: Done.</p>
<p>Tzimmis: Still to do.</p>
<p>Must hardboil eggs. Must make matzah balls. </p>
<p>Must get folding chairs from friend.</p>
<p>Don't you need pillows?</p>
<p>Oh, VeryHappy, D loves tzimmis! She tried it at a friend's house one year at Passover, and it has been a favorite ever since.</p>
<p>My briskets are done and now are at my mother's for slicing. She has a meat slicer that she insist on using everytime I make the briskets. It is fine with me as I don't have the mess, but it would be so much easier for me to just slice them with the electric knife.</p>
<p>With almost the entire family in town on both sides, 30+ people is the norm. Passover is one of the holiday's we have to alternate years with each family; Thanksgiving I have, so it is the largest holiday as we have my family and my husband's family. My SIL wants us to try to stop by after the seder with my family, but I don't see that happening; my uncle likes to have the long version; of course if the little ones get restless, he will shorten it!!</p>
<p>Well, in my corner of the world MIL wants to have it at her house, but isn't feeling well, so we decided to split the prep. I am 3 briskets, 4 chickens, one sponge cake, brownies and 4 dozen chocolate dipped macaroons in, and I still need to prepare 2 Sedar plates, a flourless chocolate cake and about a gallon of charoses. All this prep is good for me though as it will be the first year that none of my children will be with us. They all decided to stay where they are. I'm missing them a lot, so cooking is keeping me busy.</p>
<p>*only having 12 this year. Largest I ever had was 24 or so.
I haven't done a THING yet (just got back from a mtg). I guess I'd better get moving.</p>
<p>BTW p3t-- maybe we'll all jsut slip in at your seder. You won't notice a few more....</p>
<p>Well, where have I been. Missed the revival of this thread.</p>
<p>jym: The NYT had a review of KP wines earlier this week. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/dining/16wine.html?ref=dining%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/dining/16wine.html?ref=dining</a></p>
<p>Chag sameach, everybody.</p>
<p>Thanks, wjb. We had a review i our weekly Jewish TImes as well. But its kinda late to shop for them-- we'll be cheating this year and having non kosher wine (shhhh) So if Elijah won't drink it there will be more for the rest of us :) Good thing the attendees at our seder don't care one bit about the kosher/nonkosher wine. Whew.</p>
<p>Oops, forgot to ask-- I noticed in the NYT article the Fabrikants were mentioned. Aren't they big jewelers in NYC??</p>
<p>^^Yes, they are.</p>
<p>Yes, pillows, Mini, at least symbolically. If the folding chairs are too low then many of us may have them . . . .</p>
<p>Not Jewish, but you guys and the deals at the grocery store have persuade me that brisket should be on the menu this weekend. :)</p>
<p>Just finished my shopping-- no prob getting Mothers margarine. Wow, am I overwhelmed hearing that you've already braised, boiled, baked, dipped, et. al. See you after seder! Best to all.</p>
<p>All I've done is ordered red snapper for my gefilte fish and fish parts for the stock to cook them in. I guess I'm behind. We just moved from winter to summer in about 3 days and I had yard work to do.</p>
<p>Just came back from last minute errand running. Ran into some friends and now we are having 14 for dinner tomorrow. </p>
<p>This next story isn't going to come out right, but it was funny (I guess ya had to be there). I decided to take one last peek at the kosher wines in the supermarket (not sure why-- they werent likely to be getting anything new in...) anyway, the endcap display seemed to have all sorts of new, interesting wines. I scanned the labels and then took a double take. One was called "Our Daily Red". Clever name, but not what I'd expect to see on a Kosher wine display :eek: ! Turns out I was one display over from the Kosher wines. I was looking at "organic wines". LOL! Well, I told you ya had to be there. I am still chuckling... I guess I am easily amused. (... Give us this day our daily red.... very clever!)</p>