Darth Seder

Well, my first time making matzah went pretty well. After 2 kg of flour and nearly five hours, I had the equivalent of maybe two or three boxes of matzah, but all irregular, ugly, and real. About half were officially "kosher for Passover", meaning that they actually were finished within the allotted time. This would have been a lot easier with help, but it is what it is. Next year, I'll do a lot better.

So now I'm preparing in earnest . . .

. . . for my first seder that I'm doing myself, not just a guest at. I have a pretty basic menu for five, volunteers bringing wine and grape juice, and a haggadah ready to be printed as soon as I find my USB stick.

For the haggadah, I started with JewishBoston's The Wandering is Over. I opened it as a word file and added some art, reformatted it a bit, and added the bit about "mitzrayim" meaning "narrow places" and my own take on the wicked son.

Menu plan is:

Vegetarian "chopped liver" with crudite's (I don't know how to put an accent aigu on with this keyboard)

Salad (either Israeli or basic green)

Lentil soup

Roasted spring vegetables atop a lemon quinoa pilaf

Matzah (natch)

Macaroons with fresh fruit

Wine

I'm a little disappointed to be lacking matzah balls and kugel, but the matzah is swindling, so I need to ration it.