eppylover ([info]eppylover) wrote,
@ 2008-03-09 18:55:00
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Current location:Goyland, USA
Current mood:longing for all I've missed
Current music:Strange animé stuff from Stephy's room
Entry tags:shabbat shmooze, sunday sermon, videos

Sunday Sermon ~ The Christian Gene!
Not LJ-cut ~ because, noooo, I don't think even the most anal of religionists could possibly find this one offensive ~~~ or could they?

via bilerico.com

thanks, Rachel ([info]ecdysiasm) for the link to the vid!

~*~*~ ~*~*~ ~*~*~


Okay, here's something I should have posted yesterday (Saturday a.k.a. Shabbos).

Purim is coming up, commencing at sunset Thursday, March 20 and ending at sunset Saturday, March 22
When Is - Dates of Religious and Civil Holidays Around the World

This year, I really wish I could find out what hamentaschen taste like.
Oh, and I've also always wondered about kreplach, since I've absolutely loved that word like forever.
Stupid reason, but yeah!


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(Anonymous)
2008-03-10 12:01 am UTC (link)
Frizz K. West

Hamentashen. Delicious. It comes in just about every flavor. It's sold at Costcos around here. But then again, we also have Chinese resturants with big signs reading "Completely Kosher!" around here. And three synagogues on the same street.

I remeber the Purim celebration at preschool. Everyone dressed up, but a lot of kids were dressed as dogs and M&Ms and other non-Purim-related things. My first and last Purim party. And there wasn't even alchohol.

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Hamentashen and paczki
[info]eppylover
2008-03-10 01:12 am UTC (link)
Sure wish SOMEPLACE around here sold hamentashen. There are two longstanding synagogues in the Greater GR area, and then Chabad House was established after I was married for the first time and had moved to N Carolina.

Grand Rapids Jewish communities
They are all so far away, on the other side of GR from us dip-shlubs in Grandville.

So...The big esoteric regional treat in these here parts of Michigan are the paczki (pronounced "Poonch-key") on "Fat Tuesday" ~ a Polish Catholic thing.
(see 5th, 6th & 7th paragraphs)

The most "traditional" paczki are prune-filled, which are okay, but not my favorites.
I like raspberry and sometimes lemon (depending on how they're made).

Yeah, my grandpa Ignasiak was thoroughly Polish Catholic *groan*.
My ma's parents (grandpa Swedish, grandma Scots-Irish, both Protestant) had a shit-fit for years about Ma marrying him! LOL

To the credit of all of them, we children never got an inkling that there was any prejudice going on ~ everybody realized the kids were totally innocent. Boy oh boy, after the grandparents died and we were grownups, our parents started talking about all the attitudes that went on back then. I was, to put it mildly, shocked!

Someday I should write about Ma's teen date with the gorgeous Jewish boy. Drama.

RE the "Completely Kosher!" Chinese restaurant ~~ that reminds me of the funny pics and captions on the last page of Moment. I'm so glad I subscribed to that magazine!

Edited at 2008-04-21 07:18 pm UTC

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[info]vandonovan
2008-03-10 01:27 am UTC (link)
You ought to be able to find hamentaschen for sale SOMEWHERE in your city. Especially this time of the year. I'd be really surprised if you can't because, like. It's such a staple. @_@;;;;

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hamentaschen
[info]eppylover
2008-03-10 01:36 am UTC (link)
I envy you SOO MUCH for living where there be Jews.
There aren't enough around here for probably 30 miles to make it "worth it" to a store to stock hamentaschen.

I may look, anyway... because Meijers does have half a small shelf in their "ethnic aisle" with matzo and a very few other kosher items. They have trouble even selling those, because they frequently go for sale in the past-due-date remainders shelves near the back of the store. Consequently, fresh hamentaschen wouldn't have a chance.

Not a staple here, sweetie. I've never even heard of it until the past couple of years!

We suck so bad here.

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[info]vandonovan
2008-03-10 01:39 am UTC (link)
Man, that's so sad. And a bit baffling to me, since it seems SO obvious to me. Ahahahaha. I wonder if you could order them online somewhere? Or if I mailed some if they'd get there remotely edible. X_x; You could always try to make some, but it's just not the same as going to a store and buying them or getting them from someone who traditionally makes them. :/

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Re: hamentaschen
[info]eppylover
2008-03-10 02:35 am UTC (link)
Right across the busy street from Stephy's high school there's a shopping center with a store called "World Market"..... maybe when I pick her up from Otaku Club on Thursday we'll make a side trip over there. They seem to have everything.

I hope the commercial hamentaschen, if they have them, are good and authentic enough, like from a deli or bakery. And don't cost a frickin' fortune!

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[info]haris_on_tour
2008-03-10 02:17 am UTC (link)
How are you in the kitchen? I can recommend a really cool book. It's called Jewish Cooking in America. My uncle gave my dad a copy for his birthday many years ago. I don't know if Dad ever read it, but I read all of the articles and looked at most of the recipes. Some of the recipes are for dishes I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole (i.e. anything with liver), but some things sound pretty tasty. If nothing else, it's great reading material!

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Jewish Cooking in America
[info]eppylover
2008-03-10 02:30 am UTC (link)
I'm a good cook, and I've got my great personal dishes, but in general I don't like to cook ~ because I HAVE to cook as an obligation.

I remember 20 years ago when I went for at least a full 2 years after my first divorce without EVER using the stoves that were in the apartments I moved into ~ indeed, the refrigerator in one of them was faulty and I never used it ~ and I have an idea that I might enjoy falling back into that kind of lifestyle again!

Yeah, I've seen a lot of what look like delicious recipes online, and have seen several different types of hamentaschen recipes ~ but I want some already-made by Jewish people, LOL! Yes, I am a kook.

I've discovered that, strangely enough, people somehow put a part of themselves into their cooking/baking.

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[info]trefenwyd
2008-03-10 06:31 pm UTC (link)
YAY! That video was hilarious. :D

Sorry, that's about all the intelligence you're getting outta me for now.

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~ intelligence, you say.
[info]eppylover
2008-03-11 01:57 am UTC (link)
I know what you mean.
I've been going thru the most annoying low period right now, and it's even more irritating because it's coinciding with so much new Eppiness.

Lots of new Eppiness. But I cannot bring myself to organize my thoughts and behaviors right now enough to get these things online. I fail.

And I'm not reading my flisters ~ they have to virtually come here and hit me with a hammer to get my attention and make me say something to 'em.

I'm even letting bill payment due dates slide. Somebody come slap my ass-face or something. I need another 14 hours of sleep; g'night!

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Re: ~ intelligence, you say.
[info]trefenwyd
2008-03-11 11:27 pm UTC (link)
Awwwwwwwww, it's okay, hon.

We all hit those sorta low periods. I try to stay up on my flisters, but at times it's difficult to get around to it when all you wanna do is sleeeeeeeeep.

So much new Eppiness has got to be exciting, though! ^^

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