![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomiFriday:
-- Figured out last bits of menu (with help ofbeckyfeld) while at work
-- Stopped at TJ's, CVS, and City Housewares on way home to pick up last necessary bits for weekend
-- Went home and cooked like crazed monkey, due to Thursday night heat precluding serious cooking
-- Listening to iPod while cooking? Pros and cons. Need speakers for 'Pod.
-- During cooking frenzy,maric23 arrived (bearing beautiful flowers that he then kindly put in a vase while I cooked). Not long after, mabfan came home. maric23 went above and beyond call of duty for guest, helping mabfan while kitchen flail continued
-- Again this week, kitchen flail lasted way too close to start of Shabbat for flailing cooking monkey's comfort
-- When asked about Shabbat morning breakfast,maric23 mentioned that when he was in Israel, brownies and coffee were a common breakfast before davening on Shabbat. Conveniently enough, brownies using dancingdeer's recipe were planned for Friday dessert
-- Finally, Shabbat started. Lit candles, changed for Shabbat, sat down to food.
-- Food: Gefilte fish in honey (recipe fromlucretia_borgia), 10-Minute Chinese Beef (recipe from lcmlc), Basmati rice, stir-fried veggies, and the aforementioned brownies
-- Good conversation over dinner; appreciative noises in reaction to food (which I take as a good sign); ate Shabbat dinner with chopsticks; menu proved popular
Saturday:
-- Up for shul at 7:30 (yay, Shabbat alarm)
-- Ate brownies; discovered Issues with jar of coffee from pantry; was abashed, offered tea with caffeine; while getting out tea bags, found single-serve coffee bag – yay!; felt less guilty about coffee-related Issues. Need to get more coffee bags for future guestage
-- Left later than optimal for getting to shul on time; walked double-time to get there, arrived at same time as Rabbi Emeritus; found thatmabfan and maric23 were #4 and #5. Irony of rushing to shul to find lack-of-minyan not lost on sleepy cook-monkey
-- Good davening. Quick. Rabbi out of town on vacation. Rabbi Emeritus gave 5-minute drash. Yay, short drash. Bilaam = Lavan. Need to find Sanhedrin 105.
-- Got home in time to set up for lunch guests. Whilemabfan and maric23 set table and all, got food finished up.
-- Lunch food: Bruschetta (suggested byeroticjames), chicken marsala, Yerushalmi kugel (recipe from vettecat), marinated cauliflower salad (recipe from beckyfeld, suggested by beckyfeld), and chocolate chip cookie bars. Also served olive oil and zatar for challah dipping. Food was popular. Especially cookie bars.
-- Lunch went from 1:15-5:30. No, really. That was from kiddush to bentching. And then we played card games (Set, Flux, Chrononauts). At 8:00-ish,mabfan asked guests if they wanted to stay for seudah shlishit, at which point guests realized just how late it was and left to feed their kitten. Afternoon was great fun.
-- Post-lunch conversational movie quote: "But I've got my country's five hundredth anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped."
-- After havdallah, schmoozed withmaric23 and played on Internet and other assorted things until close to 2 AM. Then sleep. Much needed due to lack of Shabbat nap.
Sunday:
-- Up earlier than going-to-sleep-around-2 called for.
-- Saw "Ratatouille." Highly recommended. And the preceding short, as well.
-- After movie, went off to visit coworker ofmabfan and his family. Had lovely time. Stayed late into night.
-- Came home, got ready for work, went to sleep.
Was a wonderful weekend all around. Thanks to everyone who contributed in any way to its wonderfulness.
-- Figured out last bits of menu (with help of
beckyfeld) while at work-- Stopped at TJ's, CVS, and City Housewares on way home to pick up last necessary bits for weekend
-- Went home and cooked like crazed monkey, due to Thursday night heat precluding serious cooking
-- Listening to iPod while cooking? Pros and cons. Need speakers for 'Pod.
-- During cooking frenzy,
maric23 arrived (bearing beautiful flowers that he then kindly put in a vase while I cooked). Not long after, mabfan came home. maric23 went above and beyond call of duty for guest, helping mabfan while kitchen flail continued-- Again this week, kitchen flail lasted way too close to start of Shabbat for flailing cooking monkey's comfort
-- When asked about Shabbat morning breakfast,
maric23 mentioned that when he was in Israel, brownies and coffee were a common breakfast before davening on Shabbat. Conveniently enough, brownies using dancingdeer's recipe were planned for Friday dessert-- Finally, Shabbat started. Lit candles, changed for Shabbat, sat down to food.
-- Food: Gefilte fish in honey (recipe from
lucretia_borgia), 10-Minute Chinese Beef (recipe from lcmlc), Basmati rice, stir-fried veggies, and the aforementioned brownies-- Good conversation over dinner; appreciative noises in reaction to food (which I take as a good sign); ate Shabbat dinner with chopsticks; menu proved popular
Saturday:
-- Up for shul at 7:30 (yay, Shabbat alarm)
-- Ate brownies; discovered Issues with jar of coffee from pantry; was abashed, offered tea with caffeine; while getting out tea bags, found single-serve coffee bag – yay!; felt less guilty about coffee-related Issues. Need to get more coffee bags for future guestage
-- Left later than optimal for getting to shul on time; walked double-time to get there, arrived at same time as Rabbi Emeritus; found that
mabfan and maric23 were #4 and #5. Irony of rushing to shul to find lack-of-minyan not lost on sleepy cook-monkey-- Good davening. Quick. Rabbi out of town on vacation. Rabbi Emeritus gave 5-minute drash. Yay, short drash. Bilaam = Lavan. Need to find Sanhedrin 105.
-- Got home in time to set up for lunch guests. While
mabfan and maric23 set table and all, got food finished up.-- Lunch food: Bruschetta (suggested by
eroticjames), chicken marsala, Yerushalmi kugel (recipe from vettecat), marinated cauliflower salad (recipe from beckyfeld, suggested by beckyfeld), and chocolate chip cookie bars. Also served olive oil and zatar for challah dipping. Food was popular. Especially cookie bars.-- Lunch went from 1:15-5:30. No, really. That was from kiddush to bentching. And then we played card games (Set, Flux, Chrononauts). At 8:00-ish,
mabfan asked guests if they wanted to stay for seudah shlishit, at which point guests realized just how late it was and left to feed their kitten. Afternoon was great fun.-- Post-lunch conversational movie quote: "But I've got my country's five hundredth anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped."
-- After havdallah, schmoozed with
maric23 and played on Internet and other assorted things until close to 2 AM. Then sleep. Much needed due to lack of Shabbat nap.Sunday:
-- Up earlier than going-to-sleep-around-2 called for.
-- Saw "Ratatouille." Highly recommended. And the preceding short, as well.
-- After movie, went off to visit coworker of
mabfan and his family. Had lovely time. Stayed late into night.-- Came home, got ready for work, went to sleep.
Was a wonderful weekend all around. Thanks to everyone who contributed in any way to its wonderfulness.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-07-02 06:46 pm (UTC)What'd he do, regenerate?
no subject
Date: 2007-07-02 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-02 06:57 pm (UTC)http://mechon-mamre.org/b/l/l4411.htm
no subject
Date: 2007-07-02 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-02 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-02 11:46 pm (UTC)This?
FOUR COMMONERS, VIZ., BALAAM, DOEG, AHITOPHEL, AND GEHAZI. Belo’-am [denotes without the people]. Another explanation: Balaam denotes that he corrupted a people. The son of Beor [denotes] that he committed bestiality. A Tanna taught: Beor, Cushan-rishathaim and Laban the Syrian are identical; Beor denotes that he committed bestiality; Cushan-rishathaim, that he perpetrated two evils upon Israel: one in the days of Jacob, and the other in the days of the Judges. But what was his real name? Laban the Syrian.
(Soncino as published by Davka. I can get you the Hebrew but I don't know if that would survive post/email.)
no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 01:36 am (UTC)How about his foodie parents?
I'm thinking when it's released on DVD, not as a theater thing. Way, way too young for a movie theater (and I'm not thinking about B ;)).