Carbfest 2010

[ellenkushner]

 . . . as we try to eat up all the remaining bread, pasta, crackers &  cookies  before Passover begins on Monday at nightfall!

My parents are coming for the entire week, and my mother keeps a kosher kitchen, so there's no rest for the wicked as we desperately try to get ours in shape for her.  Honor thy Father & thy Mother, after all . . . seems a small price to pay.  

The "reward" is that I get to hold both family seders here in our diningroom.  I shall keep order.  We will sing the songs I like, with the tunes I like.  There will be Discussion, but not too much.  Dinner will be served at a reasonable hour.  All will love me and despair-- I mean, we will all have a very nice time.  And sing songs.  Lots of them.

Comments

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

I thought that picking the tunes and serving when I wanted to (rather than two hours late...) was the reward for hosting Second Night last year. It was certainly a lovely evening but I have been disabused of ANY notions of order or control!

Have a lovely Pesach!

[m4thte4cher.livejournal.com]

I never knew anyone from Shaker who actually kept kosher. Was it like that when you were growing up, too?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Even more so.

[gows.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend is Jewish and owns a catering company. He's worked with some kosher families (as have I, the token goy); it's always been . . . interesting.

Sing yer heart out.

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

All will love me and despair...

Thank you! I needed that laugh!

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Yes! Thanks, Ellen, that is the only time a Tolkien reference has tickled me as much as the time I was moaning over the Tolclones of the world and my sympathetic friend S. said, "Hush! Evil things do not come into this valley, but all the same we should not name them."

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

It's been said that a good host begins the party in herself. Sounds like you'll have a great party.

[ladyuranus.livejournal.com]

I will always love my Grandmother for having an abridged Hagadah (sp?). When I eventually went to a more formal seder, I was surprised at how loooong it was...

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

YAY singing!! May you have much joy of parents, song, and food.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

And the Four Glasses of Wine. Don't forget those. It makes the singing so much easier. :D
Me? I instituted remembering there is a Second Half of the Seder, you know the part after "Let's Eat!!" For some reason, we never got to that part at my parents' house, which we called Very Unorthodox. The books were put away as we got out the food and never brought back out. We never searched for Afikomen, I never understood the 4 glasses of wine jokes. It was sad. They really needed the 30 minute Seder in which all is done before dinner, but it didn't exist back then.
Mine is long and fun with lots of wine (the good kosher for passover kind, not the grape juice). Since few of us sing, we don't bother. Except for Dayenu, I never learned them anyway.
Have you ever seen the Santa Cruz Haggadah? It is full of discussions, but you can pick and choose. Our family has put parts of it into the Harrigan Family Haggadah. (We were reading from THREE of different Haggadah, I had do something!)

[mondyboy.livejournal.com]

Long time lurker, first time poster:

hope you have a very happy and kosher pesach. So who will be singing mah nishtana?

[rubygirl29.livejournal.com]

Yes, my lady Galadriel. :-)

Shaker? As in Shaker Heights in Ohio?

May all your Passover wishes come true. Peace, love, and family warmth.

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Dinner at a reasonable hour, what a concept.

Ours is at my house this year, and we are frantically cleaning, even though no one really keeps Pesach that strictly. It's a good excuse for spring cleaning.

We always read the section from Starhawk's Fifth Sacred Thing where she describes people arguing over whether or not to sing the song about Elijah, because one of my memories of Seders is at some point, it always turned into pilpul.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Remember, kosher gin is now available to sub for wine if you need it.

[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

A blessed Pesach to you and your whole family.

[elrhiarhodan]

A happy Pesach to you.

Remember, don't hide the afikomen in a place you want no one to see.

[natesmomclaire.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo! A sweet and kosher pesakh to you! We are hosting also. Family starts arriving Sunday, stays through Wednesday. We'll be using the same hagaddah I potchkied together back in 1993. Hosting for the first time is exhilarating! Hosting for the eighteenth time is exhausting. I'd write more, but I have to get back to re-arranging all my furniture and belongings. Enjoy those carbs now, while you can! P.S. Please tell Delia we're planning to serve that roasted-chicken-in-a-skillet.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Happy Pesach! Hope your seders were lovely!