Rosh Hashanah 5778 prep
Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
Overall I've been too crazed to journal, but today is weirdly slow* at work so I am taking a few minutes.
*(Edited to add: I suspected it was too good to be true. Of course the shit hit the fan on about 3 different projects as soon as I finished posting this, so, we'll hope I get out on time.)
Cards: mostly sent; I ordered 50, and carefully winnowed down my list to that number, but they actually sent me extras so I still have a dozen or so I can send (probably next week; gmar chatimah tovah!).
Honey cake: baked last night.
Challah: 4 small loaves (2 raisin, 2 plain) currently on second rise to bake later today. This year, I used the King Arthur recipe that I printed out last year but decided against for some reason. I made a double batch since it claims to make 1 9-inch round, let the dough rise overnight, and it looked beautiful this morning. Aria was super interested in the dough as I was rolling it into strands for coiling. "Cookie! Pizza! I hold it? I hold it?" I told her she'll be big enough to help me next year.
12lb. brisket in fridge, waiting to prep for Thurs afternoon. Sorry,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ablock, I fear my brisket-recipe allegiance is permanently switched! even though the simmered-in-wine version will forever smell like the essence of Rosh Hashanah to me.
Matzah ball soup: also tomorrow (using stock from freezer)
Vegetables:
- brisket potatoes & carrots
- tzimmes (I actually found frozen diced butternut squash at Not-Our-Usual-Supermarket)
- salad
Guests: 1 (maybe 2?) Thursday night, 1 Friday night
Shul: by myself tonight (6:30pm) and tomorrow morning (9am); with Aria on Friday. She saw me put on a skirt this morning (since I'm going straight from work) and said "Mama you go shul today! I go shul!"
Still to review: Shacharit davening for first day (ack) and Haftarah. I went over the davening with the rabbi during Sunday school the last two weeks and it was OK - Yom Kippur is more direly in need of practice, but first things first.
Kittel: try on tonight, bring tomorrow morning.
Shanah tovah u'metukah!
*(Edited to add: I suspected it was too good to be true. Of course the shit hit the fan on about 3 different projects as soon as I finished posting this, so, we'll hope I get out on time.)
Cards: mostly sent; I ordered 50, and carefully winnowed down my list to that number, but they actually sent me extras so I still have a dozen or so I can send (probably next week; gmar chatimah tovah!).
Honey cake: baked last night.
Challah: 4 small loaves (2 raisin, 2 plain) currently on second rise to bake later today. This year, I used the King Arthur recipe that I printed out last year but decided against for some reason. I made a double batch since it claims to make 1 9-inch round, let the dough rise overnight, and it looked beautiful this morning. Aria was super interested in the dough as I was rolling it into strands for coiling. "Cookie! Pizza! I hold it? I hold it?" I told her she'll be big enough to help me next year.
12lb. brisket in fridge, waiting to prep for Thurs afternoon. Sorry,
ablock, I fear my brisket-recipe allegiance is permanently switched! even though the simmered-in-wine version will forever smell like the essence of Rosh Hashanah to me.Matzah ball soup: also tomorrow (using stock from freezer)
Vegetables:
- brisket potatoes & carrots
- tzimmes (I actually found frozen diced butternut squash at Not-Our-Usual-Supermarket)
- salad
Guests: 1 (maybe 2?) Thursday night, 1 Friday night
Shul: by myself tonight (6:30pm) and tomorrow morning (9am); with Aria on Friday. She saw me put on a skirt this morning (since I'm going straight from work) and said "Mama you go shul today! I go shul!"
Still to review: Shacharit davening for first day (ack) and Haftarah. I went over the davening with the rabbi during Sunday school the last two weeks and it was OK - Yom Kippur is more direly in need of practice, but first things first.
Kittel: try on tonight, bring tomorrow morning.
Shanah tovah u'metukah!
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Date: Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 04:36 pm (UTC)Interestingly that honey cake recipe looks just like the one I use which is from https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/treasury-of-jewish-holiday-baking-marcy-goldman/1101128769?ean=9780767918480 . I wonder whether it's a coincidence. It is really good, though!
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Date: Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 05:49 pm (UTC)Shanah tovah!
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Date: Monday, September 25th, 2017 02:25 am (UTC)BTW was flattered to find that we were on the card list... thanks for the great picture!
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Date: Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 05:39 pm (UTC)We are only having dinner guests for Friday night, I'm serving butternut squash soup, a roasted chicken, and crispy potatoes. Perhaps one day we will be able to share a New Year's meal with you and yours! <3
Here's to a sweet and blessed 5778.
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Date: Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 02:42 am (UTC)How did davening (and services in general) go? I thought of you during the Haftarah. :)
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Date: Monday, October 2nd, 2017 02:29 pm (UTC)Weirdly, Shacharit on YK was scheduled to take almost a full hour (despite being heavily abridged), and thus about halfway through it I got signals to "SLOW DOWN! SLOW DOWN!" because we were running 15 minutes early! I said later that next year we'll (I'll) have a better idea of the pacing. But then they had Musaf (and babysitting) scheduled to end at 12:30, at which time they were barely at Eileh Ezkerah with a good half hour to go. I took the excuse to bail out and take Aria home. First time in years I've left before Musaf was over.
How was your experience?
<3
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