magid

This year might be the year that I finally run a seder. I think I can go to the first seder with friends, and have been thinking about just how much of a pain in the neck it would be to have the second one at my house. Other than the ritual foods, the rest is just having a nice kosher-for-Passover dinner, which I can do (I can even have enough vegan options :-), and having a nice group of people.

The ritual foods: the shankbone (but my mom has been known to use a turkey/chicken neck, and I've been to vegetarian ones that use a beet (the bloodiest vegetable)), a roasted egg, salt water, fresh veggies for dipping, wine/grape juice, matza (I think for a seder I might get the expensive stuff), ground horseradish(/romaine lettuce), and charoset (a mixture of chopped apples, walnuts, cinnamon, other stuff depending on one's traditions. Supposed to look like mortar, but tastes yummy.). Of all of these, the trickiest one would be the last, since I have so few implements of kosher for Passover food torture. This could be overcome.

The guests: well, that's another question. I know that I want a seder where all the basics are read (in whichever language, which would likely default to English, or Hebrew-followed-by-English-translation), and people actually discuss the things that interest them, rather than the "are we ready for dinner yet?" that can happen sometimes. Frankly, I'll be off work the next day, so I don't much care how late it goes (though it won't start until after dark, ie when the second day starts). Ideally, we'd be a group of 6-8 people, since smaller than that feels just too small for a seder, and larger than that starts to strain the space I have.
Thoughts? People who are interested?

On the radio this morning, there was a plug for somewhere that offers "independent living apartments." I assume they put a hyphen between the first two words, which, in some lights, seems absurd: aren't all apartments like that, unless billed otherwise? I started wondering, however, what it would be like if there had been a hyphen between the last two words... I could just hear the apartment not letting me have too much junk food, or making me do the laundry before LJ surfing, or...

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