Vegetarian Passover 2011
April 25, 2011 at 10:35 am (Jewish, Menus, Spring recipes, unrated)
Derek and I hosted our second ever Saarbruecken seder this year. Including ourselves and Derek’s parents, we had a total of 12 people at our seder. Derek’s father planned the seder itself, Derek was responsible for all the singing, and I was in charge of the food. I tried a number of different recipes in the weeks leading up to Passover and debated a lot with Derek. In the end I decided on this menu:
- Appetizers (before the start of the seder): kalamata olives, hummus, and crudite
- Appetizers (during the seder): Hillel sandwiches with 2 kinds of harosetz and beet horseradish
- Soup: matzoh ball soup in vegetable broth, with diced carrots, diced parsnips, peas, and parsley and chives to garnish
- Main course: spinach matzoh pie and a layered potato and chard terrine
- Side dish: beets, fennel, celery, and apples in a mustard vinaigrette
- Dessert: orange, nut, honey cake; lemon bars with a matzoh-nut crust; toffikomen
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