Purim, mid-chag update

[magid]

I went to the 8.30 ("late") megillah reading, along with a lovely masked woman. With her encouragement, I donned a costume involving a top hat, tails, and a silvery rainbow tank top. We arrived with time to spare, so I did machatzit ha-shekel and matanot l'evyonim before megillah reading (well, technically, they're not yet done, since the money won't be handed out until tomorrow, but...), and got to see the rabbi in his wife's tichel, and his wife in his pants and hat (two strands of her hair down as uncurled payes). Oh, and one woman had a perfect sheer white Mennonite cap. Then it was on to the megillah reading, done by a friend with a lovely tenor voice. It's not the first time I've heard him read, but every year he seems to get better. Since it wasn't the "main" reading, there were fewer sound effects, but I did have my chance to boo taxes (Purim is always during tax season, too). And then a lovely walk in the chill of a clear night. I stopped at one point, to look at the moon, and got almost dizzy at how fast it was zooming through the sky, until my perspective shifted to realize that it was fast-moving clouds being blown along instead.

And now to start the bread dough* to bake in the morning; my few mishloach manot are going to be bread and plum-rhubarb jam.

Thoughts for a morning costume: either the military jacket, or salwar kameez, or just bring the stuffed turkey and a koosh ("...ha-molech mayHodu v'ad Koosh...."). Decisions, decisions.

[3/07/04 1000 addendum]
I ended up making a plain white dough but sweetening it with a lot of molasses; not only do I have a lot of it, but it seemed fitting for Purim: sweetness and iron. The dough turned tan from it, and the rolls are a golden brown throughout.
(It still seems odd to be using flour from a 5-lb bag; I haven't had one in years. But it's just too close to Pesach to make a 50-lb bag worthwhile.)

Comments

[gingicat]

I'm sorry I missed it. :(

[bitty.livejournal.com]

It still seems odd to be using flour from a 5-lb bag

Oh, join the common people for a change ;) It hasn't killed us yet!


(although I suppose you could have gone for the 50lb bag and then just had a gigantic bread party...)

flour quantities

[magid.livejournal.com]

It's not that it's common; it's just that I'm cheap enough. The 50-lb bags are so much cheaper per pound (less than half).

(With all the people I know on Atkins and/or restricting carbs, I can't imagine that a massive bread party in two weeks or so would actually get rid of as much as I'd like ;-). And really, it is a lot of flour.)

Re: flour quantities

[bitty.livejournal.com]

Nonono, I understand they're cheaper. I mean that now you have to cope with baking like the rest of us, and run out to the store in the middle of a recipe ;)

oh, bubblebabble could quite happily help relieve you of a buttload of bread. and at this rate, i might be not too far behind him.

Re: flour quantities

[magid.livejournal.com]

Technically, I had to run to the store before the recipe :-).
Er, walk. My knee is not up to running (I hate having a knee and a back in revolt at the same time. Sigh.).

I'd forgotten about BubbleBabble's metabolism. Er, and are you moving out of Atkins-land?

Re: flour quantities

[bitty.livejournal.com]

week #6. still no weight loss.

v. depressing.

bread sounds like a good consolation prize.

also, health not so good.

Re: week 6

[magid.livejournal.com]

That sucks, on both counts. I'm surprised Atkins isn't working; I hadn't realized that for some people it doesn't (just that there were health concerns with staying on too long). Are there other intake-modification plans that might work?