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[Shanus]

Calling @sunala...Re: Shabbos post. Wanna "get in" earlier than last week... missed it. Will wait for you to start.

Need to run out for Passover order. Just came into store last night...not great selection or not in great quanties in our part of NC. Stores put out a boat load of cream soda & yarhzeit candles & think that's Passover. Gotta laugh 😂!! 

Will check back later. 

Love ❤️ 

Shanus

[sunala]

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@Shanus wrote:

Calling @sunala...Re: Shabbos post. Wanna "get in" earlier than last week... missed it. Will wait for you to start.

Need to run out for Passover order. Just came into store last night...not great selection or not in great quanties in our part of NC. Stores put out a boat load of cream soda & yarhzeit candles & think that's Passover. Gotta laugh 😂!! 

Will check back later. 

Love ❤️ 

Shanus

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@ShanusShayna hi! You sure are early for Shabbos lol

I understand what you're saying. Some stores have no clue what Passover is, and take out anything they have in stock that has any kind of Hebrew writing on it and assumes they are for Passover.

Last year my local supermarket actually put out not-for-Passover matzoh and matzoh meal on their piddly display. It was really sad, and I had to educate the manager as to what Passover is all about. Turns out they had a larger display in a different part of the store with real Passover matzoh and macaroons and all the good stuff. The manager didn't even know about it until one of his employees told him.

I have a recipe for Passover butter crunch. Here is the recipe if you want to dazzle your family. It's sooooooo good:

4-6 Sheets of unsalted matzah

1 cup unsalted butter (two sticks)

1 cup light brown sugar

1 cup (6 oz) semi sweet chocolate bits

(sprinkle sea salt) (1/2 tsp vanilla)

Preheat oven to 375.

Lightly grease cookie sheet or jelly roll pan. Line bottom of pan entirely with matzah, breaking into smaller pieces if necessary to fill the entire sheet, including corners.

In saucepan, combine butter and sugar, and cook over medium heat until boiling, stirring constantly. Reduce heat and cook, stirring, until begins to boil, about three minutes.  Pour sugar/butter mixture evenly over matzah.

Bake for about 15 minutes, checking every four or five minutes to make sure it's not burning. Should be light caramel colored only --BURNS VERY EASILY!!

Remove from oven and sprinkle with chocolate bits. Let stand for 5 minutes, then spread melted bits over entire surface. Chill in refrigerator until set, and break into pieces.   ENJOY!!

@Shanus- Maybe if you change the title of this thread to Passover, we can get some more recipes. I'd love to see what others are cooking, as well as their family favorites.

Have a beautiful day, my friend xox

[DukeBlueNan]

@Shanus

We may have had this conversation before that we're both North Carolinians, can't  remember. My point this time, if you prepare the recipe that @sunala shared, seek me out! Please! Just holler! Or at least think of me when you're eating!

[Shanus]

@sunala. Recipe sounds great. May have to try it before April 10. Sounds too delicious to wait!

[Shanus]

@DukeBlueNan. Yep! NC connection & "another", too that I didn't know about!!! Definitely let you know about Sunny's dessert, but I trust her that it'll be great. 

[Shanus]

@sunala. Wouldn't Passover Recipes be under Recipes?Start thread there? Guess tell everyone in Shabbos post to put & read recipes there, OK?

[sunala]

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@Shanus wrote:

@sunala. Wouldn't Passover Recipes be under Recipes?Start thread there? Guess tell everyone in Shabbos post to put & read recipes there, OK?

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@Shanus- I VERY rarely go over to the recipe board, since I don't cook very much. I don't know how much interest there would be for a Passover candy over there. I think I once posted the recipe on the Community page, which was fine, but if I did that today, it would probably be moved by a moderator over to the recipe board anyway. I would think those who post on our Friday Shabbat Shalom will see it tomorrow.

By the way, why would cream soda be in the Passover section? I don't even get that!!!

[Shanus]

@sunala. No one knew what a bagel was when I moved here 65 yrs. ago. So now they associate cream soda w/ delis & I can always find it on the Kosher aisle w/ the yahrzeit candles, & anything they think is remotely related to Kosher. Beats me. Stopped asking questions about it decades ago.

[sunala]

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@Shanus wrote:

@sunala. No one knew what a bagel was when I moved here 65 yrs. ago. So now they associate cream soda w/ delis & I can always find it on the Kosher aisle w/ the yahrzeit candles, & anything they think is remotely related to Kosher. Beats me. Stopped asking questions about it decades ago.

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@Shanus  that's funny!  I notice that grape juice is usually in the Passover section, but don't know why.

I've never lived outside NY so I don't have much experience with places that don't have bagels. I remember when I was a little girl, my family took a car trip up to Rome, NY. My mother asked for a bagel with her eggs for breakfast, and they didn't have a clue. She tried describing it, and they offered her a donut and an English Muffin. Not even close!

I guess I'm spoiled because of where I live. I remember growing up with all those wonderful appetizing stores in Brooklyn, with whitefish, lox, pickled herring, shmaltz herring, pickled salmon, sturgeon and sable. Sadly, I don't see that food anymore unless I'm at a Jewish wedding, or paying a shiva call.

[Shanus]

@sunala. Maybe the younger generation doesn't like those foods.... not the healthiest. My Nana used to spread shmaltz (rendered chicken fat for anyone else tuning in) on my matzo...Oooh! So good.