Chickens In The Pot

The chickens, onions, dill, carrots, celery, thyme, salt, pepper and garlic halves are in the pot simmering away. This means by sometime late tonight the stock will be ready to poach the matzoballs next week. Plottie ordered a 10 lb. brisket today which he will prepare, of course, using the time tested Rose's Brisket recipe, which involves several secrets you would have to kill him to get, except for the one about using stewed tomatoes.

DANG! This house smells good!

All the coconut has been gathered together for Ducknik's macaroons and there is a rumor that Liz Greenberg (one of the few non-Jewish Greenbergs) is bringing a vanilla almond cake. The chocolate component has still not been decided upon, but it is for certain that there will be wine from all three categories: red, white and Manischewitz.

It's a lot of fun to do this every year, because so much of the preparation can be done in advance. Plot always works on a theme for the readings, because the readings themselves can be soooo-o-o-o boring and never make much sense, unless viewed through a Plotnikkian lens. This year it will probably be about The Great PD'S fantastic Mischief Dream, though it is sure to be a stretch, as it always is.

The Plotniks went south to Stiletto for Passover for the first dozen years they lived up here, but it got to be such a schlep, and both Plot and Duck got tired of always being the schleppers. So five years ago Plot decided if he was going to live in St. Plotniko it was time to celebrate holidays at home and start building customs away from Stiletto City. It was a good move.

By the way, Plottie has never seen more Passover prepared dishes than at Costco this year. He was surprised at first, because most of them are Kosher for Passover Servings for one or two people. How can you have Passover with one or two people?

This says to him there are a lot of people who miss the seder customs but either have nowhere to go, or don't really it miss it that much, and figure they'll stay home and eat packaged stuffed cabbage on matzo farfel.

Plottie doesn't like to think of people who have nowhere to go on holidays. That's why he and Duck always have extra folding chairs.