Preparing for Passover

Preparing for Passover

I was just at my friend Adele's. She's having 22 people over for the first Seder as she has been doing for over twenty years now. Everyone in the local Jewish Community in Victoria knows her, she's an artist, photographer, writer and fabulous cook. I helped her with all those vegetables, lettuce, celery, cilantro, and parsley. The best way to de-string celery is with a potato peeler. She also made a salad of baby canned beets sliced, sliced red onions and balsamic vineger.

She also has a plague display - plastic frogs, locus, ping-pong balls for hail, sunglasses for darkness, a cow's mask for cattle and radishes for blood. Plague displays are becoming popular, one year my children made one in origami.

My son made the charoset with finely chopped apples, dates, apricots, walnuts, raisins, cinnamon and sweet red wine. He used a hand held grinder and mixed it all up. Tasted yummy!

Adele boiled 22 eggs and we peeled them. This is different from my mother's Seder, (going over there for 2nd night) where the guests peel them, then we put them all in a plate with wine and put it outside. Adele also took one egg and scrotched it with a candle and put it on the Seder plate.

I can't wait for tomorrow night! Watch this blog for updates!

For Passover recipes and information see Passover Part 1 and See Passover Part 2 for the main meal.