#tu bshvat

[loki-god-of-mischief-13]

happy Tu Bshvat y’all

Found some tu bshvat dad jokes:

[thepomegranatewitch]

please enjoy our family's Tu bShvat table!

Closeup of three haggadot with a fruiting and flowering full colour botanical drawing of pomegranates overlaid with a black and white circle of moonphases, labeled in English and Hebrew as Seder Tu bShvat and Rosh Hashanah l'Ilanot

Closeup of a cheeseboard. Top left, clockwise as follows. Round container of herbed soft cheese, small jar of almonds, sliced red pear, a spoon, two white ramekins of olives, the lower stuffed with almonds, cut parmesan cheese, sliced brie. In center dried figs, golden raisins, and dried apricots.

Closeup shot of flowering white stonefruit blossoms. A cluster of 4 is visible, with a slightly blurry bud in midground.

An overhead shot of a table mostly set for Tu bShvat (I forgot the orange, cardamom, and water; and the vegetarian chili and yellow cornbread didn't fit). Top left clockwise as follows. Flowering pink tulips in a pink plastic wrap, red wine, a baby plate, white wine, a pecan pie with circular rays pattern, a wineglass, a spoon on yellow gingham napkin, the haggadah described above, a glass turkish teacup, a spoon on a red gingham napkin, another haggadah, a spoon on green gingham napkin, a wineglass, another haggadah. In center the cheeseboard described above and a plate of homemade puffed matzah.

If you're interested in the haggadah, a pdf is available, and I made a post with links to multiple Tu bShvat haggadot.

(edited 5784 / 2024 for new link to haggadah)

[tomfoolerytime]

no one is ready for my jewish strawberry shortcake ideas

[orphee-aux-enfers]

If you think olive trees are the only trees endemic/native to the Levant, I have zero respect for you, actually

[dzamie]

fuck, I missed tu bshvat

confound these short days >:(

[gonnauseanomdeplume]

Feeling special that my English birthday is on Tu Bshvat this year. I am one with the trees 🌳 I am Mother Earth.

[hindahoney]

Fruit anon here i am so sorry that it made you feel unsafe i was trying to mock the whole ‘people sending weird asks’ to us thing and it was just tu bshvat and i was thinking about fruit so i decided to send an ask about fruit and i did not mean to make you feel that weird i am so sorry please forgive me i am just very weird i am so sorry

Ooooh I completely misunderstood. I get antisemitic asks sometimes and I thought it was another antisemite who was going to make some bad joke or comment based on whatever i chose 💀 Maybe I'm a little paranoid.

Anyway my fav fruit is clementine and I'll fight anyone about it

[onmymasa22]

Didnt know this, but christian dior's perfume miss dior is after his sister, who was semt to a concentration camp for protesting the nazis. And the company fired the fourth creative director for making an antisemitic comment in a bar. Also not convicted of any sexual disgustingness, so im a new fan of dior.

A 30 year old is not supposed to be living at home. Thats it. When elie lived somewhere else, it was peaceful and nice at home. Not everyone is meant to be at home. I have a different relationship with everyone.

I want trees. More and more and more trees. Theres so much associated with my name. And i want every kind of flower on the trees. I want to make a version of gan eden. Theres tu bshvat, tree of life, my name, the face that im an archer, im a flower, im a branch, a tendril, sunlight, butterflies. I want a huge instalation. I dont whether it should be 2d or 3d. I just want an insane amount of trees.

[shewantstobe]

given the tu bshvat debacle I'm uh. not looking forward to seeing what the tl serves up for yom hashoa

[theiloveyousong]

yayyyy happy tu bshvat i love trees i love sharing a birthday with trees!!!!! only this year but maybe one day when im like fifty we will share one again

[yanzinator]

I don't think we even say chatzi hallel on tu bav and tu bshvat, those do not count.

[thepomegranatewitch]

tu bshvat 5784

Welcome to the new tradition around here, sharing my family's tu bshvat table! Pictures imperfect because we needed to sit and eat!

Image description. Three photos of a table set with a meal, described below. One from overhead, the other two from just over tableheight at two different angles.

The whole table! This is a secondhand dropleaf table that I fixed up a bit with oilcloth, but I'd love to have one of those old country kitchen wooden tables that serve as prep table, dining table, and ad hoc operating table for La Résistance. The kids keep grabbing onto the edge and trying to swing off this, and you can imagine that will one day soon end very poorly.

Since I live an actually not aesthetically cottagecore life, we have nothing but the finest dollar store plain white dishware for us adults, and metal sets for the kids. I haven't finished making all the colour coded napkins, but eagle eyed individuals will notice each blue gingham napkin has a flower embroidered in the corner in each of our colour coding scheme, from top left clockwise that's red, yellow, green, orange. Each setting has a bowl on a plate, a fork and spoon on a blue napkin, and a haggadah with a pomegranate branch on blue circle. Adult settings also have a butter knife and a stemmed port glass, and the kid settings have two small square sticker sheets and a turkish teaglass.

The table has, from top left clockwise, an adult place setting, a fruit plate on glass, a child setting, a red plate with four servings of melanzane alla parmigiana, an adult place setting, a paper packet of parsley seeds, a small glass jar with cardamom pods, a glass bowl of wash water with three star anise floating in it, a gray towel with white stripes, and a child setting. Down the center of the table from left to right is a bowl of fruit and nut studded barley, a bottle of white and a bottle of red wine, a square container with mixed roasted vegetables, a half gallon mason jar with water, a pecan pie with circular pattern, and a plate of homemade thick matzah. Yes, I made matzah because I thought it would be easier than making bread. Yes, my oven hasn't been cleaned in a while and so started smoking. Yes, the smoke alarms went off multiple times. Yes, I did have to stand there facing the street while it rained pumping the side door while all the windows were open to get all the steam and smoke particles out of the air. Holiday adventures with Sahar!

Image description. Four close up shots of foods, described below. All are birds eye except the barley, which is at an angle to show the careful mounding.

the fruit plate! Our minhag is at least twelve tree fruits so we piled most of them on the tasting plate. From the ramekin going clockwise, that's a ramekin of pomegranate arils, a chunk of pomegranate, segmented tangerine slices, dried apricots, almonds, dried figs, golden raisins (the baby calls them 'ravens'), extra-dark chocolate chunks (cacao is a tree fruit, it's what the ancestors would want), a ramekin of pitted kalamata olives, and some dried medjool dates. Bonus: the kids ate the plate remnants as a serve-yourself breakfast the next morning. Always wonderful when a holiday yields some batch cooking and child autonomy.

a pecan pie. We use the King Arthur Flour Old-Fashioned Pecan Pie recipe because corn syrup tastes off to me. The changes we made this time are making a savory not sweet pie crust (my spouse makes it with iced water and vodka), cream instead of milk, toasting the filling nuts just shy of burnt, and cream instead of milk. It worked really well to reduce the sweetness from 'sickening' to 'very.' It's our traditional dessert and we eat it only once a year because it's so sweet. I like laying the pecans flat side up in rings on the top for full coverage and so it looks a little like tree rings.

The washwater bowl. It's just a glass mixing bowl with water, but I dropped in some orange blossom water and floated some star anise to make it pretty, and I liked it. Will have to repeat the anise for pesach, but skip the orange blossom water - the anise completely overpowered it.

The barley. We cooked it plain and then added walnuts, pine nuts, dried cherries, fresh pomegranate, and a lot of olive oil. We didn't salt it, which was fine, because we let the kids salt the eggplant before we roasted it, which was not fine. Together they taste great. For those keeping count, the barley dish rounds out the tree fruits to thirteen, and with the whole-wheat matzah that makes all seven species! Side note on the matzah, keep your eyes peeled around pesach for my recipe. Once I learned how to make it, I'm never going back to store matzah. Mine is delicious and oil rich, and we eat it as a pleasant flatbread, not just the bread of affliction.

Image description. Two photos of amanita mushrooms from overhead angles.

As a final bit, please enjoy these amanita mushrooms from the JCC. The groundskeeper is in a months-long battle with this patch that just keeps coming back. He keeps knocking over all but one so the preschoolers can safely enjoy looking only, and they keep popping up. I'm delighted - I thought these were mythical and didn't realize they grew where I live now!

If you'd like to support my work, you can buy a copy of my tu bshvat haggadah here, and the two tu bshvat stickers here and here.

[futomakigami]

thepomegranatewitch

Tu bShvat table

[adamavshamayim]

Obligatory "happy tu bshvat even though this blog and my life were both nature themed until I became a sellout" post. Trees are pretty cool.

[astra-and-lilith]

Kekse, Brot und Kuchen

Shtetl - Tradition - Heimat. Der Permalink lautet https://www.pinterest.de/AstraandLilith/shtetl-tradition-heimat/tu-bshvat/ - Das Backen von Keksen macht hin und wieder auch Freude als ein Teil der Rituale. Rabbi Dr. Jill Hammer hat dazu einen kurzen Beitrag veröffentlicht im "Jewish Book of the Days". Und wer will, kann das auch symbolisch sehen zu weiteren diversen Provokationen wie Druckdarmgespiele soeben ein weiteres Mal bei einer militärischen Ermittlerin und der Frage, mit welcher Technik in die Standfestigkeit von welchen Einheiten provozierend gegangen werden soll. Und wieso hybride Kriegsführung auf den Straßen im Alltag auch hier vor Ort nicht immer unbedingt viel Freude bedeutet. Der Permalink lautet https://www.pinterest.de/AstraandLilith/f%C3%BCr-luca-und-die-little-people/ 

Perspektivenwechsel? Und? Schwankt es wieder? Und sonst? Doch, da hilft auch Nervennahrung. Süsses. Zum Beispiel! Abteilung Hobbypsychologie? Mehrfachaktenführung wirkt Wunder! Weitere Anmerkungen zum Gang nach draußen? Wir verstehen uns? Freunde? Auch ohne, dass ich wieder das Hunderte Seiten lange Non-Lethal-Weapons Program auf den Seiten des amerikanischen Ministeriums verlinken muss? Die deutsche Quelle ist wo? Ich suche da noch. Wir empfehlen übrigens auch noch einmal das Umdeuten von Beschuss als notwendige medizinische und therapeutische Maßnahme. Wie wäre es noch mit ethnischer Säuberung? Als notwendige Maßnahme? Beweismittelführung in wessen Händen? Ach, wirklich? Weitere Reaktionen dieser Art? Und nun habe ich wieder Appetit! Leider keine Kekse da! Die werden dann aber morgen wieder gebacken. Stellvertreter-Szenario, KI. Gruss, G