Well it's Thursday and I cooked all day. Had three projects for work, cleaned up the kitchen, took my mom to the hairdresser ( which is it's own story ) went to the post office to send Rachel's birthday present - a little late -, went to the Market, came home and started cooking again.

But the point is, we're having a Passover Seder on Saturday evening so stuff has to get ready. All those little Jewish women all over the world are preparing the same stuff. Like, gefilte fish fresh horseradish,( that's a picture of the horseradish with beets in my mother-in-law's frog dish-see the leg sticking out-gross-) brisket, chicken soup with matzoh balls. I really don't totally enjoy the food - but I love the tradition. The gefilte fish was surprisingly easy. I just decided that I wasn't going to open a bottle of it this year. It's an old world thing to do, but I used trout and some sort of white fish and salmon. So kind of west coast. My husband said it was great and he should know. So the only thing that won't be homemade this year will be the eggs - had to buy them because the girls don't make enough - the matzoh and the grape juice.

I'll let you know how it went.