In the annual search for “Kosher for Passover” in the hinterlands, I found latkes and matzah ball soup.
Yuck. And what is this “Mrs. Manischewitz” stuff? I always pictured Mrs. Manischewitz as an overweight woman who lay in bed and signaled ships at sea with her jewelry.
But I digress.
What do you eat during Passover? And don’t mention that matzah brie stuff that Mrs. Plant eats, or I shall become ill.
Its not so hard if you eat more meat than most people are accustomed to nowadays. The easiest thing is to make a few things in big batches to have over a couple of days.
beef stew, chicken soup, steaks, stewed chicken, shish kabobs, corned beef… stuff like that. Then there are more Passover-specific foods like matzoh kugel, potato nick (sp?), gefilte fish (once a year is enough for me)… I take leftovers from my mom’s seder. 
Matzoh ball soup is good! I have that occassionally throughout the year.
Also, try for things like “cake.” The marble cake is really good. Just mix with two eggs, some water, pop in an oven and blamo! Dessert.
I miss regular ketchup though, I eat it on everything and it just ain’t the same without corn syrup. The good news is that Diet Coke doesn’t need to be special ordered. That’s a tip, BTW. Don’t pay $3 a can when you can buy the perfectly good regular kind right off the shelf for $3 a six pack. Why? There’s no corn syrup in it to begin with and it’s already kosher!
Speaking of corn, I suppose one could argue with whether that is truly unkosher for passover. I, for one, don’t believe that it is but I still don’t eat it anyway. Why? Habit, I guess.
That’s a Central European/Eastern thing, isn’t it?
Yes. Separdic Jews eat corn, as well as leguimes for Passover. They also have much better food.
The way I learned it is that as the Jews emigrated from the mid East and settled throughout Europe they encountered corn for the first time. Not knowing what it was, but realizing that it grew the same way as wheat, they decided to err on the side of caution and label it as wheat.
The moral of the story is that tortilla chips are evil. The end.
Matzo, matzo and more matzo.
Grilled meats and cold cuts. Potato Latkes are pretty much the best available side dish.
I’m so glad it only lasts eight days.
I’m a lapsed Jew living with conservative parents but without any steady source of income, so I eat the 2 dollar meals at 7-11. Hot dog, chips and soda for two bucks, that’s better than my school’s prices!
We’re also a no-corn family so when I’m not able to cheat I generally eat leftover meat. I can’t stand matzah or any of the replacement foods. I think one year we had good Kosher for Passover ketchup, but that’s about it. I said in a lost thread that matzah-meal pizza was the worst thing I’ve ever eaten, but you could say that about a lot of KfP foods.
-BKB
“Celebrating” his last Passover for quite some time, possibly his final one.
I do like potato latkes and as a gentile I have to say I love my new job! I am working for Orthodox Jews and I get this Thursday, Friday, as well as next Wednesday and Thursday off work…paid:)
A four day weekend my second week on the job, I could get to like this!
Question; on our work calendar, there are hebrew words for each day of Pesach. What do the mean? I think Lag bomer or something like that is one of them…Im sure the spelling is waaaay off!
Well, without having your calendar in front of me, I can only guess that they said:
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[li]First day of Passover[/li][li]Second Day of Passover[/li][li]1st Intermediate Day of Passover[/li][li]2nd Intermediate Day of Passover[/li][li]3rd Intermediate Day of Passover[/li][li]4th Intermediate Day of Passover[/li][li]7th day of Passover[/li][li]8th Day of Passover[/li][/list=1]
Lag B’Omer is on April 30th this year. Don’t expect to get the day off with pay… Jews are allowed to work on Lag B’Omer. ;j
Zev Steinhardt
What’s the deal with corn? Does it have to do with fermenting, does corn syrup sometimes count as leavening?
And for the no-corn folks, is that only during Passover, or is it a year-round prohibition?
Please excuse my ignorance.
Here at the corvidae household, we eat lots of eggs, potatoes, pickles and chocolate. Man, I can’t wait til pesach is over.
I’ve stopped keeping kosher for passover, but every year at this time I go out and buy a couple boxes of the coffee cake. Man that is some good stuff.
Now that our kitchen is finally turned over, Mrs. KVS made something delicious for dinner last night. She took a box of the kosher for Passover potato kugel, mixed in a can of salmon, and cooked it.
Delicious!
Can’t wait for matzah time to start, especially the shmura matzah, which is made by hand.
Hey Zev, how much is shmura in NY? I paid $14.50/lb down here.
A question from a perplexed goy:
OK, I know that leavened food is forbidden during Passover, so no bagels, muffins, or grilled cheese sandwiches, but why does that restrict you to grilled meats, cold cuts, or potato latkes? What about soups, salads, or vegetables? Can you have chili or stirfried tofu for Pesach?
And do you eat actual food at a Seder, or do you just have the ceremonial dishes (bitter herbs, charoseth, broiled lamb bone and so on)?
Do you have the Seder on just one night? and if so, which night?
Think Thanksgiving dinner without bread.
Yes, there is actual food at the Seder - it just takes a while to get to the actual meal. People living in Israel have one Seder, on the first night; everyone else has two.
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Only products with leaven in them are forbidden. (Of course, they have to be kosher too). Chili is fine as long as you don’t throw in any barley, etc. Salads are fine (but watch out for those crutons).
Part of the seder is having a festive meal.
Seders (outside of Israel) are for two nights (Wednesday and Thursday nights). In Israel, there is only one seder on Wednesday night.
Zev Steinhardt
I don’t know. My wife does the shopping. The more she spends, the less I want to know about it.
_ <--------- unleavened smilie for passover.
Zev Steinhardt
Aside from no food that is specifically leavened (bread, etc) you are not allowed to eat any food that swells in cooking… nothing made with wheat (aside from ritually prepared matzoh and meal amde from same), nothing made from any other grain, nothing made with corn, no rice, no beans, and nothing that contains those ingredients. This rules out a LOT of foods as many things are sweetened with corn syrup, contain cornstarch, etc. Vegetables are fine as long as they aren’t legumes.