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[shamalamadingdong4]

So sorry xoxo and reiki, I remember celebrating the first Passover without my mom. It was rough. I'll probably do a spinach casserole, potato kugel, maybe some chicken for hubby and son, along with Sunny's matzoh crunch and an Israeli chocolate matzoh roll for dessert. I'll also have some fresh fruit and salad to ward off the dreaded Pesach abdominal pucker.

[reiki604]

Thank you shamalamadingdong. I saw a chocolate sedar plate at the store today but smacked my own hand away when reaching for it.

[Dell1]

On 3/31/2015 reiki604 said: In addition to the egg,potato, parsley charoses and matzo, I am making gefilte fish with homemade horseradish, matzoball chicken soup. For the main course we will have brisket, turkey, potato kugel, string beans with almonds, and tsimmes. For dessert there will be fruit, macaroons and some sort of cake. I just koshered my oven and scrubbed the kitchen to make it ready. Now the preparation and cooking begins!

I am not of this faith so don't know what koshered an oven means. Just curious.

[reiki604]

On 3/31/2015 Dell said:

On 3/31/2015 reiki604 said: In addition to the egg,potato, parsley charoses and matzo, I am making gefilte fish with homemade horseradish, matzoball chicken soup. For the main course we will have brisket, turkey, potato kugel, string beans with almonds, and tsimmes. For dessert there will be fruit, macaroons and some sort of cake. I just koshered my oven and scrubbed the kitchen to make it ready. Now the preparation and cooking begins!

I am not of this faith so don't know what koshered an oven means. Just curious.

Koshering the oven means a serous deep clean of the oven, racks, knobs, burners etc. to remove any traces of food that has been cooked in it that may have not been kosher. Since I do not keep a kosher home this is done for Passover when all remnants of non Passover foods (chumetz) must be removed. There are more rituals that are done but this is a simple explanation.

[Dell1]

On 3/31/2015 reiki604 said:

Koshering the oven means a serous deep clean of the oven, racks, knobs, burners etc. to remove any traces of food that has been cooked in it that may have not been kosher. Since I do not keep a kosher home this is done for Passover when all remnants of non Passover foods (chumetz) must be removed. There are more rituals that are done but this is a simple explanation.

Thanks for the reply reiki. I love hearing about different traditions and foods others share and enjoy.

[Melania]

Desserts and more desserts. That recipe looks good, Sunala.

[Qwackertoo]

oops guess I better get busy koshering my oven tomorrow!

[brewhaha]

DH will say please pass it over.

[SANNA]

We are going to have gefilte fish, smoked salmon, fresh tomato/ cucumber /sweet pepper/romaine/onion/radish salad,chicken soup. Main coarse is always roasted leg of lamb,variety of matzo dishes, fruit, wine.

[sunala]

To those of you that are interested in making a DEELISH toffee candy, here is the recipe for Toffee Matzoh Crunch. It's very simple (step by step photo directions), and trust me when I tell you it's SOOO good!

http://www.ohnuts.com/blog/passover-chocolate-toffee-matzah-recipe/

ENJOY!

i am still oxox and reiki I'm so sorry for the loss of your dear mothers. As many of us know, the first holiday after our mothers are gone is terribly hard. It does get easier but I have to admit it does take time.

I felt the best way to honor my mother was to try to do the best I could. I knew there were certain foods my mother made that I could never duplicate, so we had to come up with some new traditions mixed in with the old. That is what our children will remember.

I wish you all a beautiful, sweet holiday xox