So we are full swing into Passover/Easter preparatory celebrations! For the fist time in a long time, we are not hosting our wacky creative Passover seders this year. Rather, we are making a pilgrimage to NY to spend the first night of Passover with our best friends and the second night with my family (Nana, Pop, Uncle, Aunt, cousins & GG - we will also celebrate GG's -that is Great Grandma- 95th birthday). Then on Sunday we will be in Brooklyn with Grandma and Grandpa and do some Easter fun! Monday we will return home... exhausted but hopefully happy from all of the family, friends, fun, food and festivities!
For the two Passover seders, we will be bringing my Haggadahs (those are the books you read during the meal). Right before Jonah was born, I wrote my own Haggadah, filled with tons of wacky songs and silly customs from around the world. It is not short, but it is fun! One of the things we do every year is make Caribbean style Charoset. Charoset is one of the symbolic foods that sit on the seder plate. It is traditionally made with apples, walnuts, sweet wine and cinnamon. It is supposed to look like mortar, to remind us of the bricks the Jewish slaves had to carry and with which they built the pyramids during their time in bondage under the Egyptain Pharaoh. It tastes sweet to remind us that Moses & God helped us to gain freedom from slavery and we can celebrate that today. So, because Jocelyn's family is from the Caribbean (more on that in later posts) I try to incorporate Caribbean customs and foods even when we celebrate Jewish holidays. You see there were (and still are) Jews throughout the Caribbean! I found this Caribbean Charoset recipe years ago and now it is our custom! Tonight, the kids and I made some to bring to New York. It was fun and tasted pretty good too! Take a look! Our recipe is simple: apples, mangos, papaya, pineapple, coconut, walnuts, almonds, grape juice, cinamon, and ground ginger. Put it all in the food processor... yum!
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| My 2 chefs! |
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| little passover reading time too! |
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| smelling and tasting the mangos! |
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| yummy! |
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| mixing it all up! |
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| voila! carribean charoset |
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