I'm now at the point where I like this holiday again. There's always about 3 or 4 days where I despise it, usually around the time I'm procrastinating with my cleaning. But I'm back to getting reasonable amounts of sleep, and I'm at the stage where I know it will all happen (it always does, right?), and I know that at the very least, I'll throw the entire contents of my house into the garage if I have to. More importantly, I know that won't be necessary.
Yipppee.
Space aliens are looking for my kitchen so they can finish building their spaceship.
Cooking tonight. Haven't figured out what. I'll figure it out. I always do, right?
So here are some things that need to be taken care of:
- high chair
- dining room
- table cleaned and covered
- Chometz cabinets closed and covered
- Books dealt with or covered
- Liquor put away or covered.
- SWEEP & MOP
- table cleaned and covered
- Sunroom
- Put away Coffee Maker and Urn (and chometz microwave)
- Clear off Piano
- Sweep
- Put away Coffee Maker and Urn (and chometz microwave)
- Cry
- Hardboil ~1 dozen eggs for egg salad.
- Cook package of chicken breasts and set aside for chicken salad
- Mina de Espinaca. Not sure if I'll do this yet. Definitely for the last days, but not sure about before that. Thanks to
mamadeb for turning me onto this dish a few years ago. - Ratatouille Confite au Four. I'll make that tonight and serve with dinner tomorrow. Thanks to magid for the link.
- Potato Kugel. Maybe.
- Carrot Soup
- Matzoh Ball Soup (probably not until last days)
- Top Rib Roast (that's for tomorrow)
- Roast Chicken with Potato Stuffing
- Eggplant Parmesan (last day lunch)
- Mushrooms, mushrooms, mushrooms! A bazillion of them!
- Tomato/Basil Salad (note to self, must buy basil)
- Mashed taters
- Mashed sweet p'taters
- Fruit Salad (this is dessert most days)
- Variety of Green Salads (buy salad stuff)
- maybe stuffed mushrooms
- Salmon cakes (last days)
- Gefilte Fish (lots). Haven't decided whether these will be fish fritters or just boiled fish or a combination. Tomorrow night can't include fritters b/c I can't use matzoh meal for tomorrow. So at least Friday night will be boiled (traditional)
- For some reason I bought a LOT of broccoli. Whoops. I should probably figure out what to do with it.
- I also have some extra ground beef. Maybe I'll make hamburgers. Or meatballs. Yeah. Meatballs.
For Julian (a little trickier), I've got:
- string cheese. (LOTS)
- Milk (LOTS)
- Eggs (yes, we get those too)
- matzoh stuff (including jam to put on the matzoh)
- hot dogs
- applesauce (LOTS)
- strawberry applesauce (almost as much)
- honeydew
- bananas (crud, gotta buy more bananas)
- GRAPES (lots of grapes. he's a grape fiend)
- er, could that possibly be it?
- No, I got passover chicken and turkey nuggets. Sounds gross, but hopefully he won't be too picky.
- Makings for matzah pizza
- some disgusting looking kosher l'pesach pasta. I won't touch it, but I'm hoping he'll eat it if all else fails.
Must remember to leave oven on Friday night. Wishing I'd bought a pesach blech. I'll live.
I think that's it.
