...Continued from yesterday: My grandchildren have the benefit of having one parent of a Jewish background and the other raised with the Christian traditions. And so in their family they celebrate both Chanukah,
...as well as both Passover and Easter, as did Tom and I during our visit. On Saturday morning, March 31, the second day of Passover this year and the day before Easter our grand daughters told us the story of the biblical Ten Plagues upon Egypt that preceded the first Passover. On the shelf in the background is an afikomen holder our younger grand daughter made at her preschool. The afikomen is a special piece of matzo eaten during the seder meal.
...which I used in a recipe I found on the internet and wanted to try for healthy, low-calorie banana pancakes made only from eggs and mashed bananas. They were actually pretty dreadful, unless drowned in syrup. (When will I ever learn to stop falling for those too-good-to-be-true internet recipes?) Then we dyed the egg shells.
The Passover symbols.
...while we ate the traditional and symbolic seder foods, among which were gefilte fish,
The following day, Easter Sunday, my daughter and son-in-law hosted an Easter egg hunt and kosher brunch for about 30 children and adults. We started early preparing the food,
...with some friends arriving early to help with the preparations. The menu included scrambled eggs and a veggie scramble, fruit salad, popcorn, relishes, ...matzo with assorted toppings, including lox, regular and vegan cheese, cream cheese, hummus, sunflower seed butter, avocado,
When everyone had arrived, and understood what they were supposed to do,
When all the eggs were found we moved on to the next activity, which was a raffle MC'd by my daughter,
It had been arranged that each guest would end up winning a prize from the trove of treasures we'd gleaned from the Dollar Tree, the biggest hit among which turned out to be the whoopee cushions, which continued to be a source of entertainment for the duration of the party.
...and the crowd entertained.
...eating, socializing, ...and relaxing. And so the the kosher Easter brunch went on until about 5:15 pm when the last guests left, though they'd have stayed longer if my daughter and son-in-law hadn't had tickets for that evening's L.A. Clippers game. I, of course, invited the guests to stay longer, have some more food, watch some more TV, but the time had come.
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