Omer: The End!

[gnomi]

Today is the 49th day of the Omer and the final day thereof. Tonight is the first night of Shavuot, the holiday that commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. I will be off-line from tonight (Tuesday) through Thursday night as we celebrate the holiday with the eating of many dairy products and blintzes and other assorted tasty stuff.

Did a lot of cooking last night. Even though this is a holiday on which one can cook (as are most holidays), I wanted to be as prepared ahead of time as possible. This is mostly because we have a rule that you can't prepare on one day of the holiday for the next. Thus, I could not cook Wednesday during the day for Thursday's lunch, for example. And since our days start when it gets dark, I wouldn't be allowed to do any cooking for Thursday until about 8:45 Wednesday night. So being as prepared as possible ahead of the beginning of the holiday is the best way to go. Therefore, last night I fired up the good chopping music (in this case, the Violent Femmes followed by Brian Setzer) and chopped large quantities of veggies into submission.

I have still a couple of things to make, things that either should be made right before serving (such as the quesadillas to go with tonight's chili) or things that really are just assembly jobs (such as the fruit soup for tomorrow's lunch), or the take-'em-out-of-the-freezer blintzes (one of these days, I'll have enough pre-Shavuot bandwidth to make them from scratch again) that just need to be stuck into the oven.

So...have a good couple of days while I'm offline, play nice, and please don't redecorate the place completely while I'm gone. I've got these scary visions of virtual "While You Were Out" going on around here, and I'm half afraid of coming back to find that you all have installed a giant water slide or some such.

Comments

[celli]

Darn!

*hides blueprints with waterslide plans*

*g*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Eh, you'll probably get some other opportunity to use those plans, so don't lose them. :-)

[cellio]

Chag sameach!

Out of curiosity, are you making meatless chili or cheeseless quesadillas?

(Psst. Hey guys, the water slide was supposed to be for Sukkot. Put those blueprints away.)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Meatless chili. Black bean chili with chocolate in it. Got it from Moosewood Celebrates.

Chag sameach to you, as well.

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

Black beans? Chocolate? In chili? Could I please have this recipe? Pretty please? Ok, I'll wait three days until you can touch a computer again, if I have to. Fine, be that way. ;)

[madmadharri.livejournal.com]

hag sameach! a giant water slide or some such .. heehee!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Chag sameach to you, as well!

As for the water slide, I know you guys...and I love each and every one of you. But you're a bunch of troublemakers, so... :-)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

The water slide isn't HERE. The water slide is attached to the side of an enormous three-story Queen Anne house with a tower surrounded by multilevel decking and several swimming pools, on a corner lot in an imaginary town in Maine that was being settled by chain-bookstore corporate staff. Somehow I'd gotten welcomed into their inner circle, by working for one of the head honchos, and I got to live in the water-slide house.

I have weird dreams sometimes.

Chag sameach!

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

One of the things that's frustrated me about Seattle is finding a Jewish community to celebrate with. Being a single Jewish woman at my age, I'm an anomaly; no one knows what to do with me. And the community here is pretty darn insular. It's rather remarkable. ::sad::

But, that said, I hope you and MAB have a wonderful holiday. I'll be with you in spirit anyway.

[half-double.livejournal.com]

Water slide? Pfft. Amateurs. Everyone knows a journal isn't really redecorated 'til it has llama pens & a planetarium.

And why did I never know that the Femmes have the chopping music of choice?