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Pt. Reyes in mid-October
ditto re Stellina. And last time we were there, BJ Novak sat at the next table. Although I imagine it is very gauche of me to mention that...
Pesedik, easy birthday party for 3 year old
Thanks for the thoughts. In future years, I plan on doing this. This year, however, she's got 2 aunts in from WI who will only be there for the week. And she was actually born on the 1st night of Passover 2006, so her hebrew b'day date will always be on the 1st night of pesach...
Pesedik, easy birthday party for 3 year old
Will do. It's at home, but I'll post it later tonight.
Pesedik, easy birthday party for 3 year old
My dad used to love to sit in front of the football games on a Sunday and eat pickled herring in sour cream right out of the jar, on Stoned Wheat Thin crackers. Disgusting, but loveable. Perhaps I should just resurrect the tradition for my daughter's party...
Pesedik, easy birthday party for 3 year old
I'm also digging the pizza idea. I'm thinking I'll get regular pizza for the non-pasedik half of the crowd, and set out a "matzah pizza bar" as you describe. Hopefully my oven & 1/2 will be enough for those, and perhaps in rotation...
that marjolaine sounds amazing--if I have the time & energy, I may just look into it. I also make a Lemon Curd Pesedik Trifle every year for seder that is pretty awesome. And I was thinking of a cheesecake with a chocolate-matzah crust.
Luckily, in 2019, the year of my daugher's 13th b'day, passover is late--so hopefully no undue complications for the bat mitzvah!
Pesedik, easy birthday party for 3 year old
no, they're not concerned about preparation, just ingredients, and kind of in an ad hoc way--some will eat corn but not pork; some are okay with pork, but not corn; etc. Like I hinted at, they're pretty eclectic in their kashrut observances--I think cheeseburgers on matzah would be fine for some & not others; corn syrup ice cream similarly doesn't hit all bases. makes my job just that little bit more complicated...
Sprinkles is the place that has pesedik cupcakes: http://www.sprinkles.com. There's a shop in the Stanford Shopping Center, and I think one in SF maybe. I've not tried anything from there yet, but they've got some kind of crazy following.
Askew's not a bad idea, either... is rice okay for passover? I can't remember now--but seem to think it's on the banned list. But Askew also has mashed potatoes, right?
thanks!
Pesedik, easy birthday party for 3 year old
oh, believe you me, this will be our tactic for all future situations of this kind--she was born on the first night of Passover in 2006, and it looks like we'll be up against this situation just about every 3 years. The problem this year is that she has some aunts from WI that will only be in town that week.
Pesedik, easy birthday party for 3 year old
Well, it's not my daughter I'm worried about--it's my adult relatives. I'll look for those buns. Any idea where to get them or who makes them?
Pesedik, easy birthday party for 3 year old
My daughter's 3rd b'day is coming up, and we were planning on just having family over (which is, as it turns out, between 15 & 20 people) for an easy pizza and cupcake party. Until I realized it's in the middle of Passover, and 1/2 my family keep kosher for passover (although they're happy to eat shrimp cocktail, ham hocks, and cheeseburgers...), so pizza and cupcakes aren't really going to cut it. Even the ice cream cake (just ice cream, no cake) we always get for b'days has corn syrup in it and so won't work for most of them (interestingly, the rabbi among them is the only one who's not fussed by corn...)
I've got dessert sorted with some (pricey!) passover cupcakes from Sprinkles, but am somewhat stymied on what to do for the dinner portion of it. I want something easy and cheap, along the lines of pizza, but passover friendly.
Thoughts we've had have included a bbq (although what would we do about buns?); brisket (maybe too complicated and/or expensive, and at least 3 of the guests don't eat red meat); turkey chili (but beans are off limits); turkey meatballs and mashed potatoes (again, perhaps too complicated, and also not so exciting); and matzah pizza (how complicated would this end up being? any thoughts? any good recipes?).
I've also thought about ordering something from a kosher deli (I live in the East Bay of the SF area), but I hear not such great things about Oakland Kosher, and Saul's in Berkeley was less than helpful when I called them (they suggested I come by their "Passover tent" when it opened, 2 days before the party--and said that they didn't really know what they'd have). Of course, catering also might rack up the dollars.
I feel like I'm spending way too much energy on this, but I just can't figure out anything that seems like a good solution. Any thoughts???
thanks!
