#passover tortillas

[sialiaskitchen]

Taco night at last.

I have been waiting since before Purim.

Family verdict: should have made lots more tortillas.

Yay!!

Is it too early to post Passover recipes? Is there anyone out there observing

Ashkenazic rules (but gebrocht ok) who wants to know how to make soft, flexible matzomeal tortilla?

I assume Sephardi would just use masa, if available. So kitniyot eaters are probably being smug at me, and enjoying beans and rice with their Passover tacos.

But if you happen to need a matzomeal tortilla, here's the thing: matzomeal behaves exactly like masa. Treat it the same and you get tortilla.

[jellybeanium124]

Saw tags about the corn during Passover (also that starts tonight. I'm sending appropriate wishes to you) . Anyway, tacos. In corn tortillas. Are yummy.

I do prefer wheat tortillas but I have done corn on passover. but sometimes corn tortillas still have wheat in them? you always gotta check stuff.

[salvadorbonaparte]

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All the food recommendations pls xoxo

Hiiiiii

7. Favorite food from the country that speaks your target language

Spanish: I mostly only have experience with food from Iberia and then especially from the Catalan Countries and Galicia. There are the popular classics like paella and tortilla (with onion) that are popular for a reason (delicious). I also can't get enough of pementos de padrón and polbo á feira. Manzanilla olives are my favourite type of olives and we always try to have some at home. When it comes to sweets there's obviously crema catalana, turrón (both duro and blando) and tarta de Santiago. I could probably go on but now I'm getting hungry and "home"sick.

Portuguese: I really wanted to go to a Brazilian restaurant in Cork but didn't have the time so I can just talk about Portugal. Pastel de nata is like the dessert of all time. I also really loved the Francesinha I had even though ngl they don't look very nice. In Porto we also had something similar to polbo á feira but I don't know what it's called there but like the seafood in general is just amazing. On Madeira you can get bolo do caco and fish dishes with espada which is some deep sea fish they often serve with passion fruit or banana.

Romanian: I didn't actually get to eat any Romanian food so these are just things I want to try. Sarmale, ciorba rădăuțeană, mămăligă.

Yiddish: One of my friends recently made hamentaschen for Purim and matzah brittle for Passover. Shout out to the classic bagel with lox I guess too.

Bonus stuff I tried recently and loved despite not being target languages: Korean tteokbokki, Japanese katsu curry and some tofu dish I forgot the name of, Belgian cherry beer, American lobster rolls.

[sialiaskitchen]

THESE LOOK AMAZING!!!!!

You have totally made my day! Wow. So beautiful.

I'm so happy. Thank you for the photos and write up.

Guys, if you keep kosher for Passover and do not eat kitniyot and want something exciting this year, you NEED to head to @sialiaskitchen and check out the recipe for matzo meal tortillas. I had a go making them properly today and these things are MAGIC!

The only things I'd recommend are:

1. Make sure to knead each portion of tortilla "dough" until they are properly smooth, it will make sure you get a smooth outside to the tortillas and prevent them cracking. This will take maybe 1 minute for each one. I just kept squishing it in my hand and then rolled it into a ball.

2. If, like me, you don't have a tortilla press, you can place the balls between parchment paper and then put it on the floor with a flat board above and then gently step on the board. I ended up on one leg with my entire body weight on the board and then gave them a little roll with a rolling pin just to even put the shape if necessary.

3. Trust Sialia's process. They need to stand, covered, to soften and I promise they will - just don't be worried if it takes a little longer than you expect. I piled them all up under a bowl and once a few were there and steaming, they softened much faster.

For anyone interested, the filling is pulled jackfruit and butternut squash in a guajillo and ancho chilli sauce. It's then sprinkled with queso fresco - although pick your fave cheese if you prefer, chopped red onion (purple), red onion soaked in red wine vinegar and sugar - a quick pickled onion (pink), and coriander/cilantro. 10/10 will be making again

[bishopclimate]

Day 1 Feast Of The Unleavened Bread ... We Have Officially Begun - Are You Ready?

Dear Child of God, Today we have officially begun the Feast of Unleavened Bread. I trust you read my earlier email about all what to expect and how to prepare for the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  Today I just want to take this opportunity to share with you once more so you can be sure to get ready for what God is about to do this week, but also that you do not miss. It's okay when you have gone a while unaware about how things should be done, but once God opens up your eyes, there's no turning back.  The Bible tells us that  “‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. For seven days present a food offering to the Lord. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’” (Leviticus 23:4-8) God told the children of Israel that whoever ate leavened bread during that time would be cut off; in short they would not experience the blessings of God's covenant people. Now let me ask you one question, if I told you that what was standing between you and your greatest breakthrough, between you and your freedom from poverty, between you and your marital deliverance, was simple obedience, surely you would do it, right? Yet today, millions of Christians forsake this age-defying principle and they are living under a curse. God wants us to hold a feast unto Him, it's as simple as that. And because it is His feast, He sets the rules on how we should hold it unto Him. But because He is an amazing, mighty God, of course there are benefits, there are blessings that we experience as a result.  So right now I want you to stop what you are doing and make sure that this week you are celebrating this feast unto the Lord. Go back to my previous email if you haven't read it, so you can get a better understanding. Today until April 23 6PM UK Time, is a holy day, as it's the first official day of the Feast. God said we are not allowed to do any servile or laborious work (any work where we are serving other people). So do whatever you need to do take this time off and celebrate unto the Lord.  Secondly, get all the yeast out of your house, pack it up into a bag and seal it tight so that it's separate from the rest of your food.  Thirdly, eat unleavened bread every single day (chapati, roti, paratha, tortilla, etc.) And finally, join me LIVE this Tuesday at 6PM UK Time for Day 2 of our Feast of Unleavened Bread. Today I just wanted to lay a foundation. You won't want to miss what is coming next. Right now I want you to send me your prayer request, with the areas you are believing God to set you free and deliver you from this week. Remember the Feast of Unleavened Bread marked the deliverance of the children of Israel from 430 years of bondage and slavery. This week, great deliverance is in store.  Remember also, one of the rules of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread is that we are not to appear before God empty handed.  “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed. (Exodus 23:15) Click Below Now To Send Me Your Prayer Request & Connect With Your Special Offering Unto The Lord  CLICK HERE TO  SUBMIT YOUR PRAYER AGREEMENT FORM     CALL US 24/7 +44 207 738 3668 (UK) +1 347 708 1449 (USA)     As a reminder, here are the special instructions you need to observe throughout the Feast, which starts on April 22 until April 29. For those 8 days you are to remove all leaven from your house and you are to eat unleavened bread daily for 8 days (Passover & The Feast Of Unleavened Bread).   CLEANING OUT THE LEAVEN ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove(cause to cease) leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.  ‘On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you. 17 ‘You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance. ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 ‘Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. ‘You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ” (Exodus 12:15–20) So what do we need to rid our homes of? We must clean out everything that can cause dough to rise, or anything that contains such an ingredient. That would include: yeast, baking powder, sodium bicarbonate (Baking soda), and most baked goods; bread, cereal, cookies, biscuits, cakes, doughnuts and the like. Many products contain yeast extract; those must also go. If you are unsure, just check the list of ingredients on the product.  YOU MUST SEPARATE THEM FROM EVERYTHING ELSE. If you have a garage you can remove the stuff there until after the feast is finished, or if no other option is available, you can put everything in a bag and ensure that you seal it competely. For God said We are to remove all leaven from our homes (Ex 12 :15), no leaven is to be found in our dwellings (Ex 12:20) or within our borders (Ex 13 :7) Here are Examples of Unleavened Bread that you can eat during the Feast  Matzo – Jewish flat bread Tortilla – Mesoamerican/Mexican flat bread Roti/Chapati/Paratha (Please note: Naan contains yeast so it is not allowed) Kitcha or Qitta - Ethiopian type of flat bread used mainly in the traditional fit-fit or chechebsa dish. Tortilla de rescoldo - Chilean unleavened bread made of wheat flour, traditionally baked in the coals of a campfire. Bannock - Unleavened bread originating in the British isles. Remember we start Monday, April 22 at sunset but just to be safe I have marked it as 6PM due to differing time zones. On that Monday I will be releasing the first Blessing of Passover and what is going to happen as a result of you participating in this feast. 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[jungleboy-cruise]

I do not live near my synagogue nor can I afford tickets to attend the passover seder. I am the only Jew I know so I cant throw my own seder and I converted so my family is obviously not throwing one as they are not Jewish. Does anybody at all have a free space in their zoom seder maybe? I won't have any of the food required because we don't have any food (other than rice jam and corn tortillas we can't afford food) but I can be there and feel a part of something

[zumer-feygele]

Latin Jews I have a vitally important question: could you use a tortillera to make matzahs?

[pepprs]

i feel so bad complaining abt this but its ungodly difficult 2 eat a sandwich when the bread isn’t leavened. that’s all

[outfoxt]

Thought you might find this cool!

The reason we have April Fool's Day is because before Julius Caesar came along and fucked up the whole calendar (actually I'm not sure when this bit happened) April 1 used to be the new year. But then it was changed to January first. And as you all know, people hated checking their phones in olden times, so some idiots still celebrated the new year on April 1. So people used to trick those people on their fake New Year's Day until they got the memo that the new year was now in January.

Also, last Saturday was the night of the first Seder, and my dad brought up that Passover, the spring holiday that has the seder and the matzah, used to be the first holiday of the year (in April! Or March this year actually...). Now the new year is in September or October, and the holiday to celebrate it is Rosh Hashanah (literally meaning Head of the Year).

So yeah get dunked on, idiots who celebrate the new year in April

hope all you fools had a nice time on your special day 🤡❤️

[know-gluten]

Potato Starch Tortillas - Gluten Free

These potato starch tortillas are naturally gluten free and perfect for Passover. Use them as crepes or wraps.

[sunshine-tattoo]

with passover coming up in a few weeks, I thought I'd share a few tips for my fellow Hebrews who are single and/or on a tight budget.

you don't have to throw out your bread

I know a lot of traditions say to get rid of all the bread in the house but this always seemed kinda dumb and wasteful. Especially since refrigerators exist. Just don't eat it.

Potatoes are your best friend

Big fan of starch but can't have bread for a week? Use potatoes. They can be used for everything and contain zero flour.

Rice is also your best friend

Take a lesson from our brothers and sisters in Asia. Rice is the ideal staple crop and can be used to make thousands of dishes.

Rice noodles are amazing

No need to skip out on pasta this passover. Rice noodles can be found in any grocery store and are the perfect substitute for the wheat-based ones.

Meat + starch + veggies = perfect meal

Meat of your choosing, rice or potatoes, some veggies, and a nice sauce makes for meals that are delicious and excellent as leftovers. My personal favorite is sautéed chicken with mashed potatoes, broccoli, and a homemade fruit chutney.

Talk to your gluten free friends

These poor shmucks have to avoid wheat all year round. They know exactly how to find and make good food without it.

Corn is an amazing substitute

The indigenous peoples of North and South America knew what was up with that staple crop. Corn tortillas are perfect if you still need to make sandwiches. They contain no wheat and go with everything.

Take advantage of easter

Passover starts on easter Friday this year. Which means that there will be tons of food on sale for all the gentiles making Easter Sunday meals. Apart from the hams, many food they make also can be passover safe. Eggs cooked every way. Chocolate. Potatoes with cheese. Various casseroles. Check out the easter blogs for recipes and coupons.

Be part of the global food experience

I know a big thing for our people is tradition, but let's be real. European passover food sucks because European food sucks. It has no flavor and is the same boring ingredients over and over. Luckily, unlike our ancestors, we live in a world where we aren't limited to what we can grow in our little village. There are millions of wonderful ingredients from all over the world at your local grocery stores. And millions more recipes online from thousands of cultures. What's more, thanks to the gluten free trends, most recipes and restaurant menus nowadays already will tell ya if the recipe contains wheat. So no need to scramble around seeing if its passover safe. And honestly, I think that great great great great great great great granny Esther would not only be proud of the new flavorful ways one can cook for passover, she would love every bite and ask for seconds.

If anyone wants some awesome recipes, DM me! I've been cooking my own meals since I was 12 and love to talk about food.

[fabfemmeboy]

I noticed in your tags you said that some kosher laws are racist. I'm kind of confused by that, I've never heard that before. Could you explain what you mean?

So the answer to this is long and complicated and nuanced, and it does rely on the perceived racial/cultural differences between Jews in different parts of the world, but as a (relatively) brief overview:

Because we're a diasporic people, different traditions grew and evolved in different local Jewish communities over centuries. When Judaism kind of coalesced into the modern streams and overseeing bodies were determining which versions of the traditions were doctrinally "correct," they pretty much always chose the ones that matched Ashkenazi traditions/rules and said that the ones that Sephardi and/or Mizrahi Jews practiced were incorrect. Given that Ashkenazim were generally white-adjacent while Sephardi and MIzrahi Jews were generally not-white-adjacent, and given that race is a social construct based on who's "like us" and who's "not like us" largely using cultural background and perceived physical characteristics, it feels fair to me to call that "race-based."

The example that's easiest to unpack is kitniyot. Until only a few years ago, it was prohibited during Pesach for Jews in most streams. The rationale was that kitniyot contained items that could easily be mistaken for the 5 prohibited grains, and therefore either a person could inadvertently consume a prohibited grain while eating kitniyot OR a person could see someone eating a product made with kitniyot, assume it meant they could eat the 'usual' version of the product, and thereby eat one of the prohibited grains. What was included in kitniyot? Legumes, rice, corn, a lot of things eaten in Latin America, MENA, etc. What was not included in kitniyot? Potatoes, which are most common in Europe (especially Eastern Europe, where Ashkenazim lived when making these traditions).

Conservative and Orthodox Judaism literally said that Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews (who were fine with kitniyot during Pesach) were celebrating it wrong and violating the rules of Pesach by eating...hummus. Chicken and rice. Corn tortillas. All sorts of things. Why? Because you can make rice flour or almond flour, make something out of it that looks like it's made with wheat flour, and lead innocent Jews down a path of destruction. Ok, fine, fence around Torah and all that. But if you look on any Kosher for Passover shelf in any western supermarket, it's an array of items designed to look and taste as much like their wheat-flour products as possible. Those are allowed, because they use potato flour.

There are also some discrepancies as to whether the Sephardi traditions are considered 'valid'/proper when it comes to things like defining meat (e.g. fish isn't pareve in all cultures!), etc.

[jellybeanium124]

passover is easier now than when I was a kid, and it's 100% because I'm an adult and can buy my own food. because my family didn't grow up keeping kosher except for those 8 days where there wouldn't been any food without a kosher seal in our house (no we did not separate milk and meat lol). but now that I'm an adult I just do kosher-style passover. like I eat some pork products and shrimp the rest of the year, but it feels kind of wrong to eat it during passover, but you know what I can get? tortilla chips. fruit cups in jello. popcorn. there are creative ways around tam tams my mother would never approve of.

[13uswntimagines]

Chanukah party (USWNT x Baby!Reader)

This isn’t a request but @literaryhedgehog​ and I thought it would be fun. The basic premise is that reader is at camp during Chanukah, and the team feels bad (especially Lindsey) so they throw her a party. (thank you @notmia101​ for betaing this for us). 

You smiled at Alyssa as she described her winter plans after training camp. How she was going to visit her sister and her family for Christmas. How they were hoping for snow and how they were going to kill an innocent tree and desecrate its body with lights for their amusement. Her words, not yours. It was a game she and the other girls played every year, trying to make their Christmas plans sound as horror-movie-ish as possible. It was a way of trying to make fun of themselves so you could share the amusement and join in laughing at them. 

But despite their efforts, a little piece of you always felt left out because you couldn’t (wouldn’t?) participate. See, you were one of the few who didn’t celebrate Christmas. You were proud of your Jewish heritage, even if your family wasn’t the most ~religious~. But you were proud of the culture you had been raised in. You held its traditions very near to your heart and weren’t AT ALL bitter that the rest of the team had time designated to visit their family during their winter holidays while you still had training camp through the third week of December.  

You were kinda zoning out because you could only take so much of their cookie baking, their stalkerish man that watched kids while they slept, and their hiding of a stupid stuffed toy you were sure would give you nightmares (who the fuck thought having an ‘elf’ stalk your family all month was cute?!?!? Capitalism was a weird man). (Though you may or may not have paid attention to Lindsey’s plan to dress Ferguson like a little elf…) 

“What about you kid?” Tobin asked, nudging you out of your daydream. 

“What?” You shook your head, making everyone around you laugh. 

“Do you have plans for the holidays?” Lindsey repeated, her smile showing off her dimples. 

“Oh, um. Chanukah started a few days ago. It’s cool, they have an app with a menorah and everything. My family has been face timing me most days, but it will be over before training ends.” You shrugged, hoping they couldn’t see how much being away from your family during this time of year sucked (though you were glad to be included on the camp roster). 

Most of the veteran's jaws dropped, how had they not known that you were missing something so important to you? How had US Soccer overlooked a holiday (and inadvertently given you an ultimatum- celebrate or make the national team). 

“Then why did they schedule training camp this week?” Tobin mumbled. Again you shrugged. 

“There’s 23 of you and only one of me… it’s really not that big of a deal,” you smiled briefly and gave the same speech you had given since middle school, “It’s not like the ‘Jewish Christmas’ even though it happens around the same time some years, my family doesn’t even exchange presents, so I’m really just missing the party they’re throwing on the 18th.” 

“That still isn’t fair though. I mean, we get Christmas off automatically, even if we don’t celebrate it!” Christen huffed, throwing her hands up. 

“I mean, this isn’t like a new thing. We’re always at camp during this time. And next year the holiday starts in November, so it’s not something that can consistently be scheduled around. I guess it’s just a sacrifice I have to make to be the best right?” You said earnestly, shaking your head. You knew all of the arguments, you had heard them for all of your life. 

“But-“ Emily started to protest, but before she could get the words out you cut her off. “Don’t make a big deal guys, it’s fine. Really,” 

The team stared at you for a few seconds, several women opening and closing their mouths several times. You shifted uncomfortably under their gaze, breathing a sigh of relief when your phone rang, glad to have an excuse to get out of this situation. 

“Ok so we’re totally going to make a big deal out of this,” Lindsey said turning back around to face the team the second you were out the door. 

“I’m guessing you have a plan to woo your girl?” Emily smirked, wiggling her eyebrows. 

“It’s not to. No. We are doing this as a team to be supportive of our teammate who is part of a traditionally marginalized culture that we need to be more supportive of,” Lindsey grumbled sternly, smiling when Christen nodded in return. “I’m googling “Chanukah for Dummies” right now. 

They were going to make this camp different from the others (and if she got to impress you that was just a bonus). 

…..

“Umm, why does it smell like something is burning?” Becky asked, walking through the hotel corridor towards the dining room. 

“Because Latkes are apparently more difficult to make than I expected,” Kelley said, tossing what looked like a stack of burned hockey pucks into the trash. “I didn’t realize the whole room was going to smell like fried food- do you think they’re going to fine me when we check out?”

“If they fine you, they better fine Em too. The stench from such a little jar is kind of amazing,” Lindsey huffed. 

“What did she do, get her sardines or something?” Becky asked, shaking her head, remembering the smell that she couldn’t quite place. 

“No. Something called ‘Gefilte fish’”. 

“But isn’t that usually for Passover?” Kelley asked, looking up from where she was trying to scrape burned potatoes off her pan.

“They said it was traditional, isn’t that what we’re going for?” Emily huffed, pouting. Lindsey rolled her eyes at her best friend. 

“I’ve got music!” Chrystal called, walking through the door in a star-patterned sweater. “It turns out there are not a whole lot of Chanukah songs. There’s a Spotify playlist that’s only 3 hours long, or so, so I supplemented it with a lot of Leonard Cohen and Paul Simon.”

“And I brought the sour cream and applesauce as requested!” Sam called, walking in after her, “also some apple juice and honey bourbon. I know apples and honey are a thing for Rosh Hashana, so I thought maybe we could make some cocktails?”

“I won’t tell coach if you don’t,” Kelley said taking the bottle and pouring herself a shot. “Someone else needs to take over the latke making. My attempts have all either looked like lefse, hashbrowns or just burned.”

“Lefse?”

“I had an ex-girlfriend from Minnesota. It was a potato tortilla thing her family sent her at thanksgiving. The point here is that someone else needs to cook or we are just going to be eating sour cream and applesauce on their own.”

“We could make french fries?” Rose suggested tentatively. 

“With bacon and cheese! Those are the best,” Emily exclaimed, only to have Lindsey (gently) slap the back of her head. 

“No, Sonnett. She can’t have bacon and I don’t think she’s allowed to have cheese and meat on the same plate…” 

“I think if we just batter potato pieces in egg and flour and fry them it would taste nice with the apple sauce and sour cream. And we’ve made french fries before so it won’t be so much of a… learning curve. Though you did a great try, Kelley!” Rose said, patting Kelley’s arm.

“You guys are useless. Did you even look at a recipe?” Megan shook her head. 

“If you think it’s so easy you try it.” Kelley scoffed. Megan raised her eyebrow at the woman, stealing the spatula from the defender's hand. 

“Tasty made here we come,” 

*****

“Happy Chanukah!” came from all around as you walked in. Lindsey was very proud. Not only had she gotten the team on track and ensured that they had all of the stuff google said would make the perfect Chanukah celebration; she had also kept you off their trail until this moment. The shock on your face made all the work on their day off entirely worth it. 

The room was decorated in tinsel with a shiny plastic menorah in the center of the table. Several people were wearing ugly sweaters with different “decorations” taped on. A sign on the back wall said “We survived, let’s eat!” Lindsey had decided against hanging up the posters Rose and Mal made saying “Stick it to the (ro)Man!” and “MaccaBEe mine.” The first one because she wasn’t sure it was appropriate, the second one because she knew it wasn’t.

“Ooo who brought the hotdog of the sea?” You asked, biting your lip to suppress a giggle as you walked over to the table to see the food on display. 

“What?” Lindsey’s eyes tried to follow yours, utterly confused. They didn’t get hotdogs. They most certainly weren’t on the list that Chanukah for dummies had given her. 

You smiled softly and shook your head, pointing to the tan balls that Emily had provided. 

“That’s what my siblings and I call it during Passover. Gefilte fish is kinda a love it or hate it thing…” you trailed off, scrunching your nose just slightly. 

“And you’re not a fan?” Lindsey smirked, wrapping an arm around your shoulder. 

“Umm, I plead the fifth,” You mumbled, shaking your head slightly. It wasn’t your favorite item in the world. 

“That was all Emily,” Kelley snorted, clapping you on the back, and you grinned devilishly back at her. 

“Well, it was very nice of her to be so thoughtful. She can try a piece with me,” 

Emily cringed at the idea, but nodded nonetheless. It was your party and if eating the smelly thing out of a jar made you happy, then that’s exactly what she would do. (She also stealthily shot Lindsey the middle finger while you were surveying the rest of the items on the tables). 

“Honestly the sufganiyot is my favorite,” you said, taking a step towards the platter, your lips ticking up at Lindsey’s adorable confused face. “sorry, the donuts,” you clarified, picking up one of the many powdered sugar-covered donuts in the stack, inspecting it to see what kind it was. The Jelly ones were particularly important for the celebration. 

Lindsey blushed a little. “We didn’t know if you wanted jelly or custard,” She said hesitantly, watching as your eyes got impossibly brighter. 

“Both are amazing, thank you,” You smiled softly at the midfielder, brushing a stay bit of powdered sugar off her pink cheeks. You held her gaze for a moment before seeming realizing you had an audience, and turning towards the rest of the team. “thank all of you,” 

It wasn’t the traditional Chanukah you usually shared with your family, but the friends who had become your family made it special nonetheless.

[becauseiamnotanelephant]

Remote Seder

I have never experienced such a quick seder - the guy who led it seems more focused on getting through it at fast as possible vs enjoying the songs - but it was attended by people in New Jersey, South Carolina, and Florida and was overall a success. No bones in a vegetarian household, the egg was raw, the matzoh was tortilla chips, and the haroset was prepared in 2 minutes by throwing apple, almond, and cheap wine into a bowl. But amazingly enough we had horseradish so it felt vaguely correct. 

Happy Passover, one where every night is different from anything we’ve ever experienced.