Cheesy leftovers

Nu, the first board meeting as chair for Shir Hatzafon is now over. We only went 15 minutes past the time frame, but we also began 10 minutes late. All in all I guess it went well. The food was populare. Vegetarian lasagne and a green salad with sweet cranberries and a cheesecake later. To judge from the leftovers the rest of the board members like the food. After 8 days of Pesach, with matza, matzebrei, no rice or any other kind of kiniyot; plain wheat lasagne plates and bechamel sauce made from soy milk were welcomed as dearly almost as the Shabbat Queen...
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I feel so fagged out today...

I stayed up far too late last night. Okay Tuesdays are my Rikude'am nights and I need to sit and cool down once when I get home... like half past 10 in the evening all shvetzik.
So I check my mail box and switch on the home alter.

There is a lovely program about Proud families on a cruise ship from New York City to the Bahamas on the telly. It caught my attention - don't know why, maybe it was the sunny weather or the corus boys? I am not know as a great lover of small babies nor a huge crowd on a cruise ship.

Nu, it was a longer program than I had expected, so I didn't get my required beauty sleep this night - and as we are in the Peysakh week: why is this night not so different from other nights?
But I must say - I loved the program, I wished I had been on that ship or had a host of children in all ages... No, no, not down that path... I love my sister's kid, thats fine and I keep to my orchids. But anyway - I snuffled all the way through the program, and went far too late to bed very Proud!

Peysakh 5769

Vel inde i de otte dages usyrnet brøds fest. Matze morgen, middag, aften og ind imellem... det lægger en solid fast bund for denne chag-uge. Pasta, brød af en hver slags, ris og lignende er nu blot et kært minde, som senere på uden bliver budt varmt velkommen ind i husholdningen igen.

Sandt at sige kan pesach være lidt af en prøvelse, når ugens menuer skal planlægges for ikke at sige de små mellemmåltider uden en hurtig bid brød, men det er dog en velsignelse at tilhøre den progressive del af jødedommen, som fordrer at man selv tager ansvar og hånd om kashrut-reglerne i forbindelse med pesach. Seneste vildskud fra en orthodoks rabbiner i Israel er at forbyde KLP-mærkede (kosher le pesach) fødevare, som kan forveksles med fødevarer, der indeholder chomets. Rigtig god idé... så vil vi lige med et få forbudt chokolade, som ofte indeholder soya-protein; kartoffelmel som kan forveksles med maizena osv.

Ikke-jøder og jøder, som ikke bruger meget tid på kashrut - KLP eller ej, vil nok ryste smågrinende på hovedet. Vi andre vil håbe, at visse orthodokse rabbinere med et voldsomt ustyrligt kontrolgen enten vil begynde at have større tiltro til almindelige menneskers kashrut-evner eller pålægge deres ustyrlige gener lidt rabbinsk tilbageholdenhed.