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I loved having the sedar at home vs. a hotel. So quiet!
I would use the money to help my elderly parents. Get them a nice condo near me.
Has anyone ever used the shmurah cake meal? (not the 18 minute) I am wondering if it will be good in baking, I’m worried it will make everything too hard and heavy.
Passover cheese kugel
Six matzahs, break into large pieces
5 eggs
1 cup milk
1 pound cottage cheese
1t. salt
1/4 cup sugar
1 t. cinn
3 T. vegetable oil
Beat eggs with milk. Mix in cottage cheese, salt, cinnamon, and oil. Arrange half the matah pieces into greased 1 1/2 quart baking dish. Pour half of cheese mixture over. Repeat layer. Bake for forty min. at 350 or until set.
da, I am jealous you have frum relatives to visit on pesach, enjoy them. You are so lucky!!!
There is not much chol hamoed this year. Sunday, monday, tuesday, tuesday being erev yom tov already. So no free trip to the bronx zoo this year!!
Apple Kugel
6 eggs
1 cup matzah meal
1 cup orange juice
1 cup or less of sugar
1/4 cup oil
1 pk vanilla sugar (1 tablespoon)
cinn. to taste
6-8 apples
Mix all ingredients, then peel and slice apples, add to mixture. Grease 9×13 pan. Sprinkle cinn on top. Bake @350 for 45-50 minutes.
Coffee Nut Cake
Ingredients
6 eggs separated
2 Teaspoons coffee dissolved in hot water
2 scoops (tablespoon) vanilla sugar
Directions
Add half the sugar to the white mixture while mixing continuously. (The other half of the sugar goes in the yolk mixture.)
In a separate bowl, mix the rest of the ingredients (slowly).
Fold the white mixture into the yolk mixture (mix by hand with spatula).
Preheat oven to 350, bake for 40-45 minutes until ready.
My Mother’s sponge cake
1/3 cup cake meal
1/2 cup potato starch
1 cup sugar
10 eggpinch salt
juice of one lemon
lemon peel
Separate eggs. Beat egg yolks add 1/2 cup sugar beat well with juice and rind.
then combine in a separate bowl the cake meal, potato starch, and salt. fold into yolk mixture. Beat egg whites till frothy and add 1/2 cup sugar tillheavy. Add egg yolks and fold gradually into whites. Put in a tube pan, no grease. Bake 40-50 minutes at 350. When done invert the pan till it cools. enjoy!
I do want moshiach to come, but I like having the second sedar, cause by the first one I am too pooped to appreciate it. In Israel it is weird making a second sedar when everyone is keeping only one and it’s chol hamoed for them. And last days it is so strange, I am still eating matzah and they are jumping off the buses with bread in their shopping bags!
I am really excited about staying home for pesach this year. But I did have very nice Pesachs in the hotels. One year we went to Gateways, it was FANTASTIC. We never took naps on yom tov because we took advantage of the lovely shiurim, they have the best speakers, Rabbi Akiva Tatz and Rabbi Jonathan Reitti and we LOVED Rabbi YY Rubenstien. Wow, what a spiritual yom tov I had, I could learn and daven all day and not worry what I have to cook next. Don’t knock it till you try it!
I have been at hotels the past four years, trust me when I say it is cheaper to stay at home. I enjoyed the hotel, it was a beautiful experience, but I am looking forward to staying home because when you go to a hotel the sedar room has so many people in it that you can barely hear. One hotel I went to had one thousand people in the dining room each table conducting their own sedar. So, I look forward to hearing my husband say the hagadah and my girls can sing without fear of kol isha. It will be nice and quiet! On the other hand, it is plenty of work, cooking and cleaning, but it will be worth it.
Jax, I just bought my hand shmurah matzah, $21.50 a pound. I am sure there is cheaper but it’s the only kind my family eats, the pupa tzailim. $15 sounds great to me!
flatbush27- I respect you for admitting that you made that up! I mean it!
The Rabbonim I mentioned most certainly do eat there. Rabbi Frand goes to Friar Tuck every year for Pesach, he is there the whole yom tov and he does something very nice for neilas hachag. I know because I was there. He did not bring along his own food. For the sedarim he gets his own private sedar room, he has done this for years. We had a very nice time there, people were very nice.
There are very chashuvah Rabbonim who go to Pesach hotels. Rabbi Frand, Rabbi Pesach Krohn, Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz. If it weren’t kosher enough do you think they would go?
flatbush 27, there are advantages to staying home and advantages to going away. But I see no advantages for a person posting things to other people in a manner not becoming to a Jew. Please show refinement and respect for others when you write here. Thank you very much.
I am looking forward to staying home this year, the hotel scene gets a little old after a while.
I was at the kotel for the last Bircas Hachama, I will never forget it.
Friday night
gefilte fish
chicken soup with knaidlach
chicken with some bottle sauce
potato kugel
lukshen kugel
coleslaw
salad
chocolate cake and home made apple sauce
Shabbos lunch
gefilte fish or chopped liver
eggs with tzibbel (onion)
choulent
salad and coleslaw
choc. cake and home made apple sauce
Wow, SJSinNYC, YUM!
Citatal has underground parking. Convenient if you have a car.
When are you going, for a yom tov or just during the week or a regular shabbos? Are you particular what hechsher the hotel has?
Hey, I also have a girl going to seminary and it is $17,000, others are charging $16,000. It is a lot of money, and I agree with the other posters, that it is a luxury. I think that the high schools should guide the girls and parents on how to apply to get financial aid.
Sleepless mom, is the seminary asking for $20,000 taking them on a trip to Europe before pesach? Just wondering why your seminary is three thousand more.
They sell this light box that is very good for checking lettuce.
I think by now people are used to seeing others on their cell phones and it doesn’t draw attention to the woman. What draws my attention is when someone is walking around talking to themselves but it’s really to a blue tooth. I guess I’ll get used to it too!
We delivered shaloch manos to the head of our daughter’s high school last year, not the principal. She was dressed as a witch and we all had a good laugh. She was completely tzanuah and did not parade around in the street, just in her own home.
mazal77, I love that idea with the pink and brown mugs, very elegant and easy. About your kids friends giving shalach manos, let them give three friends and if more show up at the door, recycle what you have to give them something.
One year, I was very firm with my kids and said they should give only a few friends and that is it. I think purim was on friday, so it was too hectic to drive around. So my little one told her friend at school that she barely got any shaloch manos on purim. The next day my little girl came off the school bus with a HUGE bag of shaloch manos, a gift from her friend who felt sorry for her! OH NO, I remember thinking!
sometimes the costumes are more tznius than some of the clothing some women wear! But you have a point, flatbush.
Ames, absolutely, we are happy with whatever we get. It’s the thought that counts! When I grew up shaloch manos was an orange and hamentashen wrapped up on a paper plate, that is fine with me! It is just a pity to send perishable items when people may not have the chance to store them in the fridge.
SJSinNYC- that is a lovely idea. When you give to just a few people you can give something really good. I am giving to twelve people, so I wouldn’t have room in my fridge to store 12 containers of milk, orange juice, 12 dozen egg cartons and the fruit and veggies. Unless I gave drink box sizes.
Ames, I have actually given dried fruit and nut platters before and everyone loved it. It is also great for me, because I can make it a month in advance and have more time for cleaning my house for Pesach. It is true that the dried fruit (it’s not candied) probably does have sugar and it’s not organic, but the chocolates he puts in are high quality expensive chocolate which are absolutely yummy, making you want more. I understand that some people just want the candy and nosh, I just get way too overwhelmed when I go to the store, I wish I could post a photo of what is going on in my part of the woods, a person could get lost in the sea of candy isles and it gets expensive! I just do what is the easiest for me.
We also have shul shaloch manot which takes care of the Rabbi and all the neighbors, that is a big help.
the prof1-
I am with you all the way about the peanut chews and gummy bears. I just went shopping today and the display of nosh and candy for purim was overwhelming (gives me a headache just thinking about it!!)
But of course my shaloch manot is made up already. They are in my guest room, waiting for purim! This is what I did. On Tu B’shvat I had my local frum candy store make up trays of dried fruit and nuts with a few gold chocolates, they are gorgeous. My friends appreciate this on the few weeks before pesach when you want to serve a desert that is not going to leave a trail of chometz crumbs.
As for sending Tuna salad, salmon salad, egg salad, I find that very often they sit on someones table or counter till the big clean up on shushan purim. By then it is spoiled and goes right in the garbage. My own house is not so hectic, but I have observed this often at other people’s homes. So it’s a great idea, but don’t give to a large family where there is a lot of shaloch manot flying all over on Purim. Just my humble opinion.
May everyone have a chag someach!!!
When we were first married, my husband learned full time and I worked to support us. We did not get any financial support from parents, we lived in a cheap basement apartment and bought used furniture, and we were very happy. It’s a beautiful life and I say go for it if you are able. Not easy when the children come along, but still very worth it if you have the stamina.
This year I am making Pesach at home, GASP! (have been away for the past couple of years), so I want Purim to be under control as soon as possible. I have so much cleaning to do! Since it is almost Tu B’shvat, I went today to our local kosher candy place and asked him to prepare twelve dried fruit platters with a few colorfully wrapped chocolates on them. He will vacum seal them and they will be ready tomorrow. It costs plenty but I will be DONE with shaloch manos early and can do more pesach cleaning! I have done this before and everyone LOVED it. I refuse to spend money on nosh that everyone throws in the garbage next day. Why should dried fruit be only for Tu B’shvat?
Snow is like a shvigger…comes for one hour and it creates problems for two weeks!
AWW, Thanks anonymisss.
Can’t stand these threads about OTD with people posting things that are not true. Not that I wish it on anyone, but if one has a child that is OTD your views on the subject are VERY different. take it from me.
In order to be thin, you have to really and truly want it. And you want it more than all the goodies out there.
Kitzur- I agree with you. Coffee Room is not very interesting to my tastes lately anyway.
For many frum families, Shabbos Chanukah is a time for getting together with relatives, time to visit bobby and zeidy. So they give off a friday and sunday so you can go away for a shabbos. What a wonderful thing! Who says learning can only be done in school, how about learning with abba or grandpa? geshmack, plus doing a mitzvah of kibbud av vaim!
I think we do have a greek crisis, but different in the way you think. The focus on materialism and on a thin perfect body is one that is way too common among frum yidden. The Greeks also focused on gashmius, on the body.
Squeak…good idea, but isn’t that baal tashchis? I do have a recipe for low fat muffins and when chanukah is over i will dig up the recipe in my recipe box and type it here.
In the meantime, you can use the Dunkin Heinz cake mix and substitute apple sauce for the oil, and it still tastes delicious.
You can get a ticket if you don’t clear off your car before driving around.
College Road in Monsey is known as a speed trap. Speed limit is 30, so slow it down!
The logical conclusion is that our kids have to know that mommy and daddy are not going to be able to support them forever, so if they chose to have professions that earn little money (and no health insurance)be prepared to live in poverty. My parents raised us that if we were old enough to get married, we are old enough to be independant financially. My husband wanted to learn, great, we lived in a mouse infested basement with used furniture, I worked so he could learn, and we were not supported by ANYBODY. Where do we see kids like that nowadays? I’m not saying the kids should be doctors and lawyers but they need an education to make a parnosah, not to spend their days asking for tzaddakah and their nights worrying.
Even people who are professionals are having a hard time now. But I think the people in learning are in a worse matzav, and I don’t want that for my kids or grandchildren. It is horrible to live in poverty, to need hand outs, to go to others and ask for money.
yankdownunder- I have been in Israel and in Geulah on the crowded Malachei Yisroel Street twice and I never saw any X-mas decorations being sold. I”YH we will go this year and I will check this out!
I have seen people here in america decorate their succos with electric lights and pictures using lights going off and on. That to me reminded me of X-mas, why can’t people just put some nice pictures of Yerusahalayim and Tzaddikim and their kids projects and be done with it, why all the glitz?
I think that when a person is solid in their frumkiet they will not be threatened by seeing any holiday lights and decorations and trees. It is funny how some people go so over board with tons of decorations on their trees and lawns, some people make it look like a winter wonder land! And us yidden we have our small menorah but the light that shines from it is more special and beautiful than all the glitzy tinzel and artificial lights.
I personally like the fact that the goyim are in good moods and good holiday spirits, when the goyim are happy it is good for the yidden!