Digging Up The Daylilies

So much for salad tonight. I was going to get salad greens at the Farmer's Market this morning. I didn't get out early enough, and there were no salad greens. I did get one bag of spinach, which I'm going to make into a matzah kugel so it goes far enough to feed 17 people. But the salad is bugging me a little. I'm supposed to take salad to seder tomorrow night too, so I was counting on yummy spring salad greens. It was the first outdoor market today -- it was packed! And my usual salad lady is a vendor who I can find at the indoor market, but not the outdoor. Frustrating.

Ah well. Off to gnaw on a lamb shank for brunch (I already had grapefruit and a rhubarb pastry) so we have a shank bone for dinner.

It's Pesach time again! At services this morning we concluded that we're excited about Passover this year because it's so late. Also, you know how there's a little insert line in the g'vurot about precipitation that flips from winter to summer at Pesach? It's still winter this week, and to prove it we got snowed on.

Tomorrow I clean the kitchen for Pesach. In preparation I've been re-reading Blu Greenberg's How To Run A Traditional Jewish Household. This is a book I do not ever want to make Pesach without. She's got good instructions with explanations on how to kasher everything in the kitchen. I don't necessarily follow those directions, but I feel better knowing what they say. I'm splurging and paying a cleaning lady to do the majority of my house on Wednesday, so all I have to clean is the kitchen.

This morning on my way to Temple I bought $50 worth of chicken and eggs for seder. On my way home I bought $50 worth of wine for seder. Two weeks ago I bought the matzah and stuff, so I'm down to produce and the pareve margarine that I keep forgetting.

We're hosting 12 to 14 people for seder next weekend. I'm looking forward to it!