I dont understand what the pizza is for. Seder is just dinner, yo. Make a chicken, light a candle, have some sweet wine.

brenda, I've found that using shredded cabbage as a replacement for rice-pour-overs is really a nice switch (because rice takes too long and I can just throw the cabbage in to wilt to only slightly less crunchy in the other cooking juices.) Trying the broccoli was new. It's less flexible but still nummy.

The book she's working from only talks about the symbolic foods (which do not a dinner make), so that's the extent of the official dinner plan, unless I can find a credible enough source to cite (pretty much anyone not -me) for other "traditional" stuff.

You have friends? [running away]

[snickers]

Hush. Both of you.

Also (TAR sorta) when my parents hiked up to Machu Picchu, Dad chewed cocoa leaves. Freaked my mom out. He said it did help A LOT with the altitude issues. Well, duh. Mom just wheezed

and gave dad evil looks.

Oooh! TAR tonight.

The book she's working from only talks about the symbolic foods (which do not a dinner make), so that's the extent of the official dinner plan, unless I can find a credible enough source to cite (pretty much anyone not -me) for other "traditional" stuff.

Are you talking about the Passover Seder? Please tell her we did not survive the following forty years in the desert on a roasted egg and some parsley.

Usually, dinner is a roast of some sort with the usually fixings, though you wouldn't include any dairy if keeping kosher.

The symbolic foods like the lamb bone and the egg are part of the prayer "Why is this night different from all other nights?"

Answer: Because the Angel of Death passed over our houses and laid a cap in the pharoah's people's first borns asses because payback is a BITCH. (I will mail her 50 bucks if she says this).

It's just the prayer, like saying grace, before you chow down on dinner.

Pizza, because it is on actual leavened bread, is JUST SO WRONG.

Hush. Both of you.

LOVE your tagline, BTW. I saw that episode the other night -- with the flood, and power-hungry Bill.

LOVE your tagline, BTW.

I have so much King of the Hill love. Yours kills me too. I was just reading your LJ posts about that book.

It's a prayer with visual aids, I mean.

She shouldn't have any leavened bread if it's about Passover. Tell her our peeps had no time to let the bread rise, so no pizza, no rolls, nothing but matzo.

Have her make some matzo ball soup, that's good, substantial, yummylicious, and traditional.

I think it would be better to email Nilly, as I'm sure a bonafide email from Israel would convince your mom better than a lame lapsed jew like me.