Shana Tova to by brethren and my jewesses. I made matzo balls for the first time ever. They're lighter than air. I've never been quite so proud of myself, except for that one time when I was 10 and read Les Miserables.
This holiday is the good one. Next week is The Day of Atonement and I can't eat for 24 hours. Woot.
Tuesday, October 4
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You READ Les Miz at age 10??? GEEBUS!
I was only singing Les Miz at age 10! I read Phantom of the Opera at age 11, but I didn't get most of it. Come to think of it, I still don't...
Oh, it's like that is it? Well I read "A Brief History of Time" when I was 11 too.
It took me 10 years to understand half of it though. :D
I feel that, as a non-participant in sin obliviating rituals, I might be missing out. On matzo balls for instance. Hmmmm.
So, Michelle, what do you have to atone for?
Hamish, I think you trumped me with A Brief History of Time seeing as it's less novel and anyway it predates the A Briefer History of Time. One of the most painful interviews I've ever read is this one with Hawking hisself. I'd rather hear Vicki's Jean Valjean any day of the week.
Oh me oh my. What have I got to atone for? For one thing I broke my 30-days-of-no-drinking-vow last night after a pathetic 5 days, and it was on a shot of real Czech absinthe that made me see clowns and shit all the way home. But I did honestly forget about my vow; I didn't willingly cave.
I read Last of the Mohicans when I was 11, and that was just stupid. I really didn't understand or enjoy it at *all*. Took me about 4 months too..
So what's in matzo balls? They sound yummy.
Matzo balls, for what they are, are staggeringly yummy. Think of dumplings, really, but jews make 'em. It's matzo meal (a sort of . . . flour? I dunno.) and you mix it with oil and eggs (neither in short supply) and salt and pepper. Then you make them into little balls the size of golf balls and drop them in a pot of boiling salted water for just under an hour. They swell up and become perfect.
They are just like shortbread in that they are best left unadaulterated, and quite unlike shortbread in that their primary use
is to be swum in chicken soup and eaten before the rest of the fabulous meal.
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