Is That Legal?

injera's fermented, using (probably wild) yeast. i'm pretty sure it would be tref.

I don't know anything about Irish Soda Bread, but the name implies that it contains baking soda or something similar, which would actually make it rise.

Also, matzah is much better with other stuff on it. I love the "everything" style with poppy seeds, garlic, salt, etc. I eat it year-round.

I don't usually hit the wall until about Day Six, but baking helps. I get tired of all the eggs, really, before I get tired of Matzo and matzo products....

Actually, the best guess anyone's made so far that I'm aware of is that the original matzo was much more like pita bread than our industrial crackers (you can blame Mr. Manischewitz for that, by the way, inventor of the automated matzo-maker). One of these days, when I live somewhere nearer more Jews, I gotta get my hands on a supply of the hand-made Schmura matzo: it's supposed to be quite a different experience.

Shmura matza is very tasty. With date charoset it's actually a breakfast I'd have voluntarily.

Can you pretend to be sephardic? That way corn tortillas and rice are in. Since I'm Irish & converting next year I figure I'm as sephardic as ashkenazic.

Irish soda bread takes longer than 18 minutes from when the flour hits the liquid, right? I wonder if there's a way to make naan reallyreallyfast...

I'm all about the toppings: almond butter, Nutella (it has corn syrup, but I always act Sephardic for the duration), goat cheese, yogurt cheese, extra-good jam, charoset with dried cherries and toasted pecans.

Someone pointed me to the Israeli matzo, Yehuda brand in particular, as being better -- indeed it is. Crispier, or something. (somehow that helps)

But I wil be very very glad when Sunday sundown comes! I'm going straight to an Indian restaurant for every kind of bread they have.

I've lived in Japan, where I've declared myself Sephardic for the purposes of rice. But I don't know if I can forego my Ashkenazi upbringing sufficiently to actually consume corn syrup. It would feel like a total betrayal of the concept; it's the first thing I look for on an ingredients list. We stock up on 100% fruit spreads, and I'm a sucker for gefilte fish, anyway.

Tonight: Chicken Soup! The question? Baked or Boiled? (the answer, of course, is BOTH)

Shemora is terrible. It belongs in the class of practices which are deemed more holy because they are masochistic.

Is it that bad? :) Imagine the 40 years of manna. I kind of like it, like a big cracker.