Seder prep 2012

shopping list

Brownies

• 4 sticks salted butter
• 8 squares (8 oz) unsweetened chocolate
• 8 eggs
• 4 c. sugar
• A little more than 2 c. potato starch
• A little less than 2 c. matzo cake meal
• 2 teasp.
• vanilla Powdered sugar

Matzo Ball Soup

• Matzoh ball mix
• broth
• love

locust on a log

• celery
• almond butter
• rasins*

Pesto-lence

• basil
• oil
• salt
• pepper
• garlic
• some kind of nut
• lence (tomatoes? potatoes?)

Jalapeno poppers (filling & batter)

• matzo meal
• flax seed
• cheese and/or wasabi

shakshuka

• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 5 Anaheim chiles or 3 jalapeños, stemmed, seeded, and finely chopped (I was nervous and only used 2 Anaheims; I would go for 3 or 4 next time for a more moderate but still gentle kick)
• 1 small yellow onion, chopped
• 5 cloves garlic, crushed then sliced
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 tablespoon paprika
• 1 28-ounce can whole peeled tomatoes, undrained
• Kosher salt, to taste
• 6 eggs
• 1 tablespoon chopped flat-leaf parsley

low country boil

• all the vegetables

Quinoa-lice (I imagine an acidic salad type thing)

• lemon
• kale
• bell peppers
• yummy things

Almond Cake

• almond flour or paste -- pref flour
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• oil
• honey
• flax
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour, sifted (we used matzo meal with success, though finely grinding it first would have been a better idea)
• Kosher salt

Napoleons

• plum tomatoes (assume three-four slices per tomato)
• zucchini (assume 12 slices per zucchini)
• Crimini mushroom caps
• Salt
• Pepper
• Dried Italian Herbs (your choice!)
• olive oil
• 2 Eggplants
• 2/3 Cup Raw, Unsalted Cashews
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Dried Italian Herbs (your choice)
• 2ish Tbs Oil
• Garlic, to taste, if desired

Seder plate

• endive
• parsley
• yam
• eggs
• charost

Pre-make

• Brownies
• Charoset
• Matzoh ball mix
• locust on a log
• Pesto-lence
• Jalapeno poppers (filling & batter)
• shakshuka (prep ingredients)
• low country boil (prep ingridients)
• Quinoa-lice (I imagine an acidic salad type thing)

Make during

• Matzoh balls (to be put into the soup)
• Jalepeno poppers (frying)
• Shakshuka (cook and poach eggs)
• Country boil (boil & serve)
• chocolate fondue?

No Prep

• dragon fruit
• Blood oranges
• firstborn wine
• virgin olive oil

Dinner structure

starters

• locusts on a log
  • Celery
  • Almond/Cashew Butter
  • Rasin
• pesto-lence(?)
  • Pesto
  • Lence
• hail poppers
  • Jalapeno
  • Batter
  • filling (cheese? Wasabi?)
  • mako's deep fryer

• dragon fruit/blood orange
  • simple, maybe we can do something more creative
• Matzoh ball soup
• charocet

mains

• Shakshuka
  • tomatoes + Spices
  • eggs
• Low Country Boil
  • lots o' vegetables
• frogs (neopolitains/french onion)
  • if Neopolitain
  • if Soup: Onions and Cheese
• quinoa lice
  • quinoa
  • something green? (Kale?)

dessert

• darkness chocolate covered brownies
  • Passover Brownies
  • Bakers Chocolate & a cream?
• firstborn wine
  • whine