A Simple Pesach Meal

Here's my first experience cooking a kosher for passover meal. It was kosher for passover, except for the stringent kosher part ;) (Read this article for the modern history of Matzo... really interesting!) 

We had every part of the seder, and improvised, except for the shank bone, which we did not manage to obtain. 

The boiled egg (beitzah) broke into pieces :) We had some REALLY bitter chinese herbs for maror, lettuce with salt water as dressing for karpas. 

I made flour+water round matza, and that was the most authentic part of the meal (100% atta flour) I made my own charoset with apples, almonds, cinnamon, honey, and raisins - really tasty, and really looks like mortar.

For the main meal we had a Ashkenazi staple - latkes! Potato pancakes, with nothing dairy and absolutely no flour inside. In fact, there was absolutely no dairy in the meal. I made beef patties for meat - yum! And I deepfried crisp potato skins as a special treat!  Ribena substituted kosher wine (hee hee).. 

Below is the improvised matzo bag with compartments - a large napkin. 

We enjoyed the good Jewish food tremendously, and we ate everything together after a prayer, not a long and complicated seder in Hebrew - though I would have enjoyed it - it would go down rather unappreciated. I had a good meal and a good time cooking it. We did not light candles, though after dinner, I enjoyed singing "Dayenu" "Adir Hu" "Eliyahu HaNavi", and of course, "Ma Nistana" - which really was meaning. It was fun, and after dinner we read through portions of Scripture relating to passover from 3 different versions :)

This meal was our first "Lord's Supper" together as a family. It was a good "Holy Communion" meal.

This is my first year doing Passover. The most important thing to do, I believe, is to pray and hope for God to open eyes and unstop ears. Especially this year we as a family renounced and repented of anti-semitism in the church that has slaughtered millions of innocent Jews during this season, claiming (of all things ) that they "killed Jesus". Of course we were the bloodthirsty ones. (See Our Hands Are Stained With Blood) We really have to repent with much tears.

May God bless Israel with peace, and may He sanctify us and perfect in all truth. Thank God for Yeshua, who died and was the atoning lamb for our sins.

Next year in Jerusalem!

Shalom,

Beka.