Omer: The End!
May. 25th, 2004 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomiToday 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.
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.
