Stacey’s Slices of Life from Passover

So much good stuff, but there were a few funny mishaps from our Seder that I’m going to share this Tuesday as part of the:

So, here goes…

(1) NAPKINS

I know we bought cloth napkins. I’m so sure of it. However, I have no idea where we stored them. That wasn’t the only problem. Marc had no idea where we stored them either. Bless his heart, he helped me search through our entire apartment to try to find them. No success!

“Why don’t you just use paper napkins?” Carl, his dad, suggested. “Everything else looks so great, so what if you don’t have the napkins!??!”

A great point, but one that my mother-in-law, Linda, and I both couldn’t agree to. Therefore, we found ourselves in Bed, Bath, & Beyond on Friday purchasing new napkins, which didn’t match the tablecloth. In the scheme of things, who really cares? THEY’RE JUST NAPKINS! That being said, in the end, I think the ones we got looked pretty good.

(2) EGGS

I asked Linda how to hard-boil eggs. She chuckled at me since I know how to cook, but had no idea how to hard-boil eggs. That’s okay, I thought, this is pathetic! Regardless, she told me to leave them out for a bit before putting them in the pot. Did I listen? Nope. I forgot.

The water was boiling and I didn’t want to get burned. So, I plopped two eggs right into the pot of water. Dumb move. I didn’t get burned, but they cracked. WHO JUST PLOPS EGGS INTO A POT OF BOILING WATER AND THINKS THEY WON’T BREAK!???! (Me, when I’m not thinking.) Therefore, I dumped out the pot of water with the eggs and started again.

(3) SHANK BONE

I purchased a shank bone from Eastside Marketplace on Thursday afternoon. However, I was convinced that Marc cooked it into the chicken soup on Thursday night (DELISH!) since it was missing on Saturday morning when we started getting the Seder Plate ready.

“Are you sure you bought one?” he asked.

“Yes. They even put a sku on it! It was $2.25!” I replied.

“Are you sure? I don’t think I saw it when I cooked the chicken,” Marc said.

“Yes, I’m sure!” I paused. “Where on Earth are we going to get a shank bone on Shabbos?”

“Let’s call some grocery stores,” Linda suggested.

“Adam, that’s your job!” I said assigning the task to my brother-in-law who was visiting us on vacation. Poor thing. Not a fun task to find a shank bone just a few hours before a Seder, but I was wrist-deep in tzimmes so I couldn’t do it.

Adam called Eastside Market and had them put a shank bone aside. I was thrilled they had one! He and Carl were already outside of our apartment when Marc found a chicken neck bone inside the soup.

“I KNEW IT! I KNEW YOU COOKED THE BONE!” I exclaimed.

“It’s a neck bone, not a shank bone,” Linda said as she examined what Marc removed from the pot.

“I don’t care what it is! We’re using it,” I said as I scurried to the hallway and shouted, “WAIT! Don’t go! We found it!”

“What?!!?” Carl asked as he came out of the elevator whose doors were practically shut.

By this point one of my neighbors opened his door and was staring at me.

“We found a neck bone in the soup! We’re using that!” I said.

Carl and Adam looked quite happy that they didn’t have to head to the store.

(4) GRAVY BOAT

We didn’t receive the gravy boat off of our registry. Therefore, we bought it ourselves. It was too expensive in the first place so we decided not to buy the plate that goes under it. Not a bright move. That thing dripped like crazy once we put the brisket’s gravy in it. Talk about being penny-wise and pound-foolish.

(5) CANDLE WAX

Marc thought it would be nice to have a cake for my Dad whose birthday was yesterday (the 21st). I agreed. So, we put candles in the scrumptious Pesach Chocolate Torte Emily baked.

I was holding the cake when my Dad blew out the candles. He blew them out with such force that the wax from the candles skimmed over my wrist. OUCH! It burned. I looked down and saw splattered yellow wax all over my forearm and fingers.

“It’s not like you were trying to put out a house fire!” I said to my Dad.

“Hey, that’s how I blow out candles,” he replied.

Luckily, I wasn’t badly burned!

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All of these stories are matched with photos in this mosaic, of sorts, that I created (below).

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