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Last night my dad said that my matzoh meal rolls were the best he'd ever tasted -- even though I used my mom's recipe that she's been making for years! http://verbatim.blogs.com/verbatim/2009/04/the-taste-of-april.html

I'm not a fan passover...I feel hungry all of the time, though I don't think I'm eating any less food. For example, today: Breakfast was a large banana and a piece of matzoh with a schmear of Kosher for Passover cream cheese and some rasberry jam. Today's lunch was charoset and leftover cabbage kugel. Snack an hour ago: an apple. After an hour's run this evening, maybe a few almonds? Can't do my usual Goo.
Dinner, maybe a cayenne chicken stirfry with broccoli, spinach, and almond butter sauce?
it all sounds good, but i'm hungry, and it's only Day 2.

I use my Easter lamb cake pan to make a cherry filled jello lamb that is sacrificed at the end of the meal with a large butcher knife, a family tradition I invented when my children were small. Passover is not my native holiday (spouse) and I was afraid my daughter's father-in-law, a leading academic in Jewish studies. would be offended. She said he likes for families to make the holiday their own and last night we were a merry group of 17. My favorite part is the little sandwich of bitter herbs, horseradish and the charoset, which daughter's Mom in law makes with dates (Sephardic) instead of the apple kind we usually make. (Ashkenazic)

Blossom is a food writer now?

Without a doubt, the best thing about Passover is my grandma's (now moms) Matzoball soup. I have yet to learn the family recipe and will not learn it until I am a married woman, but it's up there with sex on the scale of awesomeness.

Matzo brei is another favorite. I do the scrambled eggs version where you break up the matzo, soften it a bit with water, then mix with eggs and cook it in the pan with butter (because it's pretty rare that I have schmaltz on hand).

As for the sedar dinner itself, we like to try and do something different every year. When times are good, there's always brisket with lots of various veggies.

cuminy lemony carrot salad. and more cumin-laden beet salad. flourless chocolate cake. charoset with apples and almonds and lots of lemon zest. brisket. leg of lamb with lots of garlic and rosemary. matzoh ball soup with lots of veggies and good stock. quinoa salad with fruit and nuts and a shallot vinaigrette.

cold boiled potatoes with salt. boiled eggs with cholula hot sauce.