According to the highly-recommended Our Shiputzim General Theory of Pesach Cleaning, this week calls for:
“Talking and blogging about cleaning in lieu of doing anything constructive.”
And thus, here are a few items of interest or note:
1) Wondering why your darling offspring’s vacation starts this coming Wednesday already? Well, you have the Education Ministry and its Ponzi scheme - aka “robbing Peter to pay Paul” – to thank for that…
2) If you’ve ever had the privilege of seeing the office nook that YZG and I share, this JPost piece will definitely ring a bell…
3) The latest Kosher Cooking Carnival is available here. Special thanks to Batya for including my lemon-glazed apple cake.
4) Rafi G. shares his beautiful insight into the Korban Chatat (the sin-offering in the Beit HaMikdash).
And finally:
5) It seems that every year without fail, we’re always left with too much of one particular chametz product before Pesach.
For instance, there was the year that we were awash in pasta. (As far as I can recall, pasta was on sale right after Chanukah that year, and apparently, we went a bit overboard…)
And then there was the memorable Year of the Shkedei Marak (i.e. the ubiquitous soup nuts seen on Israeli Shabbat tables everywhere), when the younger Shiputzim kids spent the week before Pesach in the playground, generously doling out the little yellow squares to all their friends and acquaintances.
Which brings us to this year, when an initial survey of our pantry revealed that we have an inordinate amount of… drum roll, please… pretzels.
Why pretzels, you ask?
The answer is: I have no idea.
I mean, it’s not like pretzels feature prominently in the Shiputzim family’s regular diet or anything, and I can’t imagine what prompted us to buy so many bags of the salty snack in the first place.
But buy pretzels we obviously did, and therefore, pretzels are certain to play a major role in our menus over the coming week.
So if you’re in the mood for some, um, pretzel chicken, pretzel pizza, pretzel salad, or just plain pretzels, feel free to drop by TRLEOOB*…
What strange assortment of chametz items do YOU still have left?
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*TRLEOOB=the real life equivalent of our blog
Thanks for mentioning KCC and I agree that blogging about Pesach is very necessary, or it just won't be a real jblog Passover.
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ReplyDeleteBatya - My pleasure!
ReplyDeleteLeah - I'm guessing that you have better things to do this week than using up the flour for baking? :-)
We could use some pretzels. My daughter is complaining all good snacks are gone (not sure if pretzels qualify as good or just as OK if there is nothing else).
ReplyDeleteMaking stuffed shells - I was going to donate the box to the food pantry, but the daughter came up with an idea for a stuffing she would like.
Leora - Please tell your daughter that she's welcome to come here and partake! :-)
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