Passover Dinner MenuIdeas? I'm not talking about the Seder - that I get. I'll HAVE to buy horseradish, a lamb shank, make charoset and I have celery. ::snort:: I'll begin looking tomorrow for a lamb shank and I'm not sure where I'll find that locally....but I will. Oh yeah - sparking grape juice.
I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around something for dinner. I mean it seems it should be more than spaghetti or pizza......but most places are saying lambchops or chicken noodle soup. I don't see any going for soup.....Would you just choose a meal your family enjoys as the focus isn't food anyway?????
Also - has anyone used the haggadah from "A Family Guide to Biblical Holidays"? I'm wondering how long it takes and if we'd be best doing a "simple seder" - just explaining the symbols and telling the story from the children's Bible. BUT for the older ones I think it would be more meaningful to do the traditional Seder.
Update: I did find a local pecan place that also sells lamb. I can buy lamb chops or lamb shanks...so another question.....you'd have to COOK the lamb shanks to have a shank for the seder plate - right? Do you just keep dinner warming (and drying out) while you do the Seder? And HOW DO YOU COOK LAMB SHANK????? or CHOPS for that matter? AND...will the kids eat it???????
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We usually do chicken or turkey, potatoes, a veggie. That kind of thing. Just don't have ham, or have meat and dairy together. It's not kosher!
Ham hasn't been eaten in our house for years.....as for kosher - I'm not sure that is a worry...but I'll remember. LOL
Something simple I can have ready to go as soon as the Seder is done....hmmm....
We don't buy a lamb shank since none of us eats lamb. We make one out of cardboard. (It's only symbolic.)
We eat (well, the three of us that eat meat) have an 'orange chicken' casserole, because it's a traditional Passover dish for British Jews. And we have cinnamon balls and coconut pyramids because that's quite usual, too. We also avoid dairy at the meal.
We have used that Haggadah. It was Okay.
The whole evening is LONG. Be prepared for that. Especially if you do lots of singing too. We did.{g} In Jewish households it can go on for several hours.
If I were you, I'd be looking to simplify it, or just be content to allow Stacia to toddle off and do her own thing at various points during the evening.
I keep looking for the perfect Haggadah for Jesus, but haven't found it quite yet! {g}
Thanks, Dorothy. Maybe we'll just make our Hawaiin chicken. LOL Maybe I'll save the $ and use a chicken bone (as some Jewish sites/books are suggesting) or make a cardboard one.
I know I'm NOT using my best plates.
Oh, I forgot to say that the orange chicken is something I cook in the crockpot. Anything which keeps hot by itself or can be quickly reheated is a good idea.
It seems like a lot of work, but I know you're going to have fun and really enjoy seeing all the connections with Jesus.
I'm going to relax....and I'm thinking about the Kosher thing...but really I have real life Jewish friends and if you want to do it "right" - you need to get rid of all leaven, eat without leaven for a week, use a seperate set of dishes...... since I'm not doing all that - I'm going to relax, make this a FUN thing and not a stressful thing for my family. We can do this...and if Stacia and Zander don't last...well so be it.
I'm bashing chicken! I LOVE LOVE LOVE lamb, and so does Micaela. In fact all of my kids eat it. Of course, my kids are like garbage disposals and will eat just about anything. I actually found Gabriel eating crushed tortilla chips off my garage floor. I was sick for a week, but he was fine.
Back to lamb, chops: I marinate them and broil them or grill them, but my favorite way to use lamb is in Indian food. During these holidays, HEB generally has (had anyway) a lot in the back, and I always asked to have it cut how I wanted it.
I know I'm really late on this, but I thought I'd chime in after the fact. :)
We have roughly the same dishes every year... matzo ball soup (a mainstay in most Jewish families), some form or roast or brisket or turkey, my MILs sweet/sour meatballs, mushroom matzo stuffing (the best!), some form of potatoes and usually broccoli, fruit, salad, and usually something else tossed in. It's like Thanksgiving or any other holiday for us - we have foods that everyone looks forward to so they come out for the holiday. My in laws do keep kosher and the seder is a meat meal, so no milk products. They don't, however, use separate dishes. My MIL and her friends (conservative Jews) say at this point it's not practical nor is it necessary with good dishes that don't absorb blood/juices, etc, but maybe this is just the locals here. lol
As for the shank bone, you can sometimes find them around Passover at the butcher. If you have a local Jewish community of any sorts or a kosher butcher they will sell roasted shank bones. That's what my family does because we have too many people to afford to serve lamb at dinner. :)
This is our first year of keeping the entire feast (or three actually) in our own home. We removed the yeast products (not other leaven) and won't have any for the week. We are again following my MILs rule of practicality - some of it is in the deep freezer in the garage simply because we can't afford to trash it. My kid is already sick of matzo. lol
Yum - thanks for sharing your menu, Stephanie. Our grocer was all out of lamb shanks.....they don't get to many to begin with and I didn't want to pay the price to buy lamb shank at the pecan speciality store. LOL
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