Another gentile who has a sudden and inexplicable urge for matzah and horseradish.
Being vegetarian, it’s hard to find excuses to eat horseradish.
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No, no, you’ve got it all wrong . . . matzah and a nice, thick layer of cream cheese. 2 boards of matzah and cream cheese every day for breakfast. Does wonders for the digestive system. If you really want funky, get the hand made shmura matzah. (For those not in the know, this type of shmura matza is made by hand, is big and round, and costs about $13 a pound. To me, it’s better than regular store matzah.)
Redtail, egg matzah is made with eggs and apple juice added into the mix of flour and water.
Sneeze, gefilte fish isn’t bad. If you want something truly gross, try borsht. My mother still has it every Pesach, and I can’t stand to look at it or smell it.
Oops, sorry about that double post. My server was very funky that day & I thought it had dumped the thing - it wasn’t there when I checked.
Ender: If I can get to the store to look (or if my partner kept the receipts from last week), I’ll post our prices for ya. Oh yeah, and I think Izzy’s right - all of the Passover cake mixes I’ve seen used matzoh meal.
tdcat: no one needs an excuse to eat horseradish. think baked onions. think grilled veggies. keep thinking - you’ll find more. For veggies, I generally use a sourcream base plus lotsa horseradish & whatever else (did you say garlic?) sounds good. I’m sure you could start with yogurt for some dishes, and soft tofu might work pretty well if you don’t do milk.
I’ll not go into the whole complicated story but, I’ve got a friend who grated a pound of fresh horseradish for Seder, and then discovered that the Seder she’d planned to attend had been cancelled. (She bought an entire pound because last year we ate all she brought & whined about not having enough.) Luckily she got word before she’d mixed it with anything, and fortunately all of her friends, brave and true as we are, have volunteered to take care of the problem. 
The really strange part is that she’d banged & scraped up her knuckle earlier doing yard work - it was all red & swollen & ouchie. Of course, she got horseradish all over it while grating - hurt like all *@(#*#!!. But when she was done & washed her hands … the knuckle didn’t hurt, the redness & swelling was gone, and the scrape looked like it had already started healing. Horseradish the miracle cure???
I am not Jewish. However I work for a Jewish Non-profit agency. I just returned from our All-Staff meeting which was actually a seder. Now I had never been to a seder before, and I’d never had matzah.
I have two things to offer:
1 - It was a pretty cool little gathering. I don’t know how different it was (being a company thing) from a family seder, but I’d go to another one.
2 - Matzah ain’t that bad. It kinda tastes a little like pretzels if you use your imagination.
Now, having stated that I think matzah is ok, coupled with the fact that I’m not Jewish, I think I’ll go have a whole wheat bread sandwhich on rye with a side of buttersplit. And maybe a big glass of bread to go with it.