Uri Speaks

From the desk of Uri Hadar:

We celebrated Passover with some friends here at our apartment complex.  It was quite fun but I tend to take a little bit too much responsibility for other people’s happiness. Anyway, the food was good.  We had a bizarre "Hagada" it was nothing like we are used to.  It was at shorter version, with explanations for the English speakers, and they were not very good.  And they didn't have all the songs, but we had a good time.  

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Now to elaborate a bit more… The Hagada wasn’t just different from the usual one.. The “translation” was liberal… pun intended.  For the 4 sons, it had the answers as quotes from various modern philosophers and statesmen, and somewhere, I don’t remember the context, there was a section about nuclear proliferation.    

As usual, we couldn’t hold back on making food.  Despite the fact that it was supposed to be pot-luck (i.e. everyone makes one dish) we made: Chicken Soup with Matzo-ball (Knaidalach) – he actually made 3 kinds of matzo-ball: classic, with sumach and with paprika, Chicken wings with caramelized onions, Onion pickles, Apple Chutney (both went well with a lamb entrée someone made), Horseradish (Uri made from scratch),  Haroset (which only after everyone got there we realized we did not have enough so I quickly made it, literally in 5 minutes, and was surprisingly good), and, last but not least – Krembo for dessert. Yum.