The first Seder of Passover week is tonight. Like many other major religious holidays, this ancient celebration is full of symbolism and meaning represented by food. From the unleavened bread to the bitter herbs and sweet charoset, each bite from the Seder plate tells a story.
Do you celebrate Passover? Will you attend, or host, a Seder tomorrow night?
The Seder plate, of course, is just part of the meal — the Passover meal has many traditions and dishes that are as meaningful and rich with history as the traditional American Thanksgiving meal, or the British Christmas feast.
What are you serving (and eating) this Passover? Here are a few recipes from our archives that would go well on the Passover table.
Passover Recipes and Tips:
• Cooking for Passover for the First Time: Q&A With Leah Koenig
• Good Question: Not Too-Traditional Passover
• Tip: Cook Quinoa for Passover
• Passover Cooking: Huevos Haminados
• Recipe: Borscht
• Try This! Homemade Matzo
• Chocolate Toffee Matzo Candy
• Look! Passover Desserts from Gourmet
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Actually, passover begins this evening at sundown.
Whoops! Was looking at wrong calendar - thanks chiyo25!
We had an impromptu Passover dinner tonight at my grandma's apartment, where I live. She and I made matzo ball soup, and my parents brought store-bought brisket and macaroons. Better than no Passover at all!
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I don't celebrate Passover, but just wanted to wish everyone who is a wonderful holiday!! Can't wait to read about the things people are making for their loved ones and friends :)
It isn't my year to have a big crowd, which made me feel sad when I shopped, so the three of us had a whole foods roast chicken take out dinner and I made the apple/pear walnut cinnamon wine haroset and added store made matza balls to box broth with some onion/ celery parsley added. Grated fresh horseradish with some beets. It was a nice sedar after all, to enjoy the one child still at home. I forgot to make my jello lamb, so we had strawberries.
Thank you for honoring other faiths and their traditions. I hope you extend the curtesy to Ramadan too. It's important to be accepting and respectful to all beliefs.
Which link connects to the explanation of the plate? It looks fascinating and as I'm in the UK we don't tend to observe passover here - I'd love to learn more though, about the symbolism of each bowl.
I am of a mixed family (mom is a practicing and devout Roman Catholic and dad is a non-practicing Jew who follows Israeli politics and cherishes his Jewish/Eastern Euro/Lower East Side/Brooklyn food traditions). We have always celebrated both sets of holidays (mom thought it important for us to experience them both and I am glad she did). We are having our seder tonight. The menu is roasted vegetables atop of an herb salad with dates and figs, homemade pumpernickel bread, brisket braised with prunes and cabernet, and Grandma Val's Passover sponge cake with strawberries.
Happy Pesach and Easter to the wonderful community of people here!
Nancy
Had a big family Seder with lamb, charoset, Moroccan carrot salad, a lemony chickpea salad, gefilte fish, matzoh ball soup, macaroons, sponge cake, fresh fruit and lemon sorbet. I've got the remainder of the lamb to make into stew tonight.
Our family (my parents, my sister, our goyisha husbands and my two y/o daughter) are having a nice small seder this year. The Jews split up the cooking: my parents make the main dish (Chicken Marabella, this year: YUM), Bubby's matzah ball soup, charoset, as well as supplying the various bits and pieces like, gefilte fish, kosher wine, seder plate accoutrement; I made a flourless chocolate cake which seriously needs an overhaul next year, and the passover bagels (like a heavy matzah based roll); My sister made our Bubby's sweet kugel. It was a great evening. I was a bit disappointed that my daughter didn't last long enough to look for the afikomen (a hidden piece of matzah, found for a prize). Next year.
I am breaking new ground with dessert--I made the almond sponge cake with pistachios that was in the NY Times a couple of days ago.
OMG so so good. How good? I'll be making it even when it isn't Passover, THAT'S how good it is.
We hosted seder for 18 last night, and the biggest hit was a smoked whitefish gefilte fish. Smoked whitefish, sole, and pureed carrots, onions and scallions, all topped with a horseradish mayonnaise. So much better than the stuff from a jar (not that that's hard).
oops, here's the actual gefilte fish link.