# Passover Recipes! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passover-recipes/716408 "2015-03-31T12:37:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passover-recipes/716408/1 "2015-03-31T12:37:41Z")
Passover is my favorite holiday, hands down. I usually hold a big seder for my family, my gentile friends, and a typical smattering of random Jews who don’t otherwise have a place to be. We do a dairy meal since there’s usually one or two folks who lean vegetarian, and it’s just easier to accommodate everyone that way. The last few years, I’ve forgone the traditional Ashkenaz charoset for a more Sephardic style, making little balls of chopped fruit and nuts that are ridiculously delicious. What are your favorite recipes, vegetarian or otherwise? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passover-recipes/716408/2 "2015-03-31T12:45:44Z")
[Representative recipe.](http://jewishappleseed.org/apple/sephard.htm) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passover-recipes/716408/3 "2015-03-31T14:16:44Z")
My favorite Passover recipe is, take one me, let sit for eight days, and then cook normal food. There’s only one thing I eat special for Passover that I’d consider good, and those are the egg-noodles that we use in soup and under meatballs in place of real noodles and pasta. The recipe is: 1 dozen eggs 2/3 cup water 8 tablespoons potato starch 1 teaspoon salt Mix all the ingredients together. Heat up a frying pan very hot, grease the surface with an oil-soaked paper towel. Cover the frying pan surface with thin layer of the mixture, let it get solid, flip over, wait a few seconds, then remove it. This makes, basically, a crepe. When the whole mixture is turned into crepes, roll up the stack and cut them into strips, and you have noodles. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passover-recipes/716408/4 "2015-03-31T14:37:05Z")
My mom used to make those noodles. They were really good in soup. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passover-recipes/716408/5 "2015-03-31T16:24:01Z")
So nobody’s favourite is home made matzo ball soup? Put me down for a great big steaming bowl of it with three huge matzo balls and fresh dill garnish. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passover-recipes/716408/6 "2015-03-31T16:28:49Z")
Well, that I eat every Shabbos. It may have the word “matzo” in it, but I never thought of it as a Passover food. (Especially since my family doesn’t eat “gebroktz”, which includes matzo balls. But the main reason is because it’s a year-round food.) ---
**Author:** ![FeAudrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FeAudrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeAudrey)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passover-recipes/716408/7 "2015-03-31T20:55:59Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > [Representative recipe.](http://jewishappleseed.org/apple/sephard.htm) “Sephardic charoset is shaped into balls or even into little pyramids.” Love the idea of the little pyramids. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passover-recipes/716408/8 "2015-03-31T21:00:56Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Well, that I eat every Shabbos. It may have the word “matzo” in it, but I never thought of it as a Passover food. (Especially since my family doesn’t eat “gebroktz”, which includes matzo balls. But the main reason is because it’s a year-round food.) No matza brei then? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passover-recipes/716408/9 "2015-03-31T22:57:12Z")
> [@FeAudrey](#): > > “Sephardic charoset is shaped into balls or even into little pyramids.” > > Love the idea of the little pyramids. 🙂 I’ve never tried the pyramids. The mixture is hella sticky, and by the time I’ve got everything chopped and ground (I do not own a food processor), I really cannot be bothered to be creative with the shapes.