Larry (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} larryv) wrote,@ 2008-04-21 13:42:00 |
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my very own Seder.
Kate and I ran our first Seder and by all accounts it was a rousing success. Largely the text was in English but Michal and I did some hebrew parts. Dramatic reading was encouraged as was drinking and applause. Needless to say a good time was had by all.
Some highlights:
Special thanks to everyone who brought chairs, Laura for liberating the sales table from the theatre, Amanda for the mid day dishes help (affording me a few minutes to sit down), Regina for being my taste-tester, Dani who helped make the gefilte fish, and particularly eLiz who helped so much with the clean-up effort - its hard to thank her enough she helped so much. Kate and I look forward to doing this again next year.
L'shana habah b'yerushalayim
PS - everyone who fed and/or made out with the dog last night, he really wants you to come over again soon. Apparently copious amounts of food and being drunk on wine leads to some deep seated desire to make out with Corgis. Who knew?
Kate and I ran our first Seder and by all accounts it was a rousing success. Largely the text was in English but Michal and I did some hebrew parts. Dramatic reading was encouraged as was drinking and applause. Needless to say a good time was had by all.
Some highlights:
- Casey and Shawn Rick-Rolling the seder.
- Liz running around hiding the afikomen and slamming doors and cabinets all over the house to confuse us.
- Sarah asking the four questions and also finding the afikomen and getting an awesome Tim Curry autograph prize.
- eLiz knowing the wine blessing by heart. Regina learning to read Hebrew to say the wine blessing.
- Amanda, the lone lesbian at the table, being the one who read about Moses "using the rod you hold in your hand to facilitate incredible experiences."
- The impromptu 80s beat box rap of "Who knows one?"
- At the end of the seder Scott, who has known me since the 90s said "Larry, I had no clue you were Jewish"
- Get a folding table and set it up specifically for interim food storage. The countertop and fridge were too busy/full to be accommodating.
- Get a dish washing schedule. Every hour on the hour all dishes should be speedily handwashed. Oh, and get a clock in the kitchen.
- If you have to give up making something give up a desert. The cookies would have been delicious, except by the time dinner was over people couldn't even think of desert. Hell halfway through the meal people couldn't think of their meal!
- Prepare the food so that it can all go out at once. If not people will fill up before all your food gets served.
- Just because there are 22 people there does not mean that everyone will eat one of everything. In light of this make smaller servings - I could have gotten by with one package of chicken instead of four. More people would have eaten the BBQ chicken has it been in nugget form.
- Make pot roasts later in the day. Start them at 2.5 hours prior to meal time. They were delicious but it sucked that I had to reheat them.
- Call food "adventurous" and you can get people to eat anything. Honestly kishka is probably in the top five of Jewish foods most people wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. But because I called it "an adventurous beef dish" even one of the vegetarians gleefully tried a piece.
- Not so much pepper on the bison next time. Kate almost died coughing just walking into the kitchen while I was making it. It sure was damn tasty though.
- Matzah balls when put in to boil should be about the size of the tip of your finger. Any larger and they will end up coming out of the pot the size of a softball.
- Non-dairy coffee cream taste like white out. There is no amount of sweetener in the world that will salvage it.
Special thanks to everyone who brought chairs, Laura for liberating the sales table from the theatre, Amanda for the mid day dishes help (affording me a few minutes to sit down), Regina for being my taste-tester, Dani who helped make the gefilte fish, and particularly eLiz who helped so much with the clean-up effort - its hard to thank her enough she helped so much. Kate and I look forward to doing this again next year.
L'shana habah b'yerushalayim
PS - everyone who fed and/or made out with the dog last night, he really wants you to come over again soon. Apparently copious amounts of food and being drunk on wine leads to some deep seated desire to make out with Corgis. Who knew?
