Chanukah Blog Tour and Chanukah Man
This year, among the many memes I’m participating in is the Chanukah Blog Tour, which I just signed up for today over at Amy Guth’s blog. Via there, I’ve found all kinds of other neat folks who are observing the holiday. My favorite blog, so far, is life as orieyenta, where Orieyenta posts about Jewish […]
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The Dreidel Song
Frankly, I’m a little embarrassed, but my partner in crime and I recorded the Dreidel song (you know, “Oh Dreidel Dreidel! something something something those are the only words people know?) for Citizen of the Month’s holiday concert, which I believe will be posted tomorrow. I’m too bashful to post the song here, but if […]
The best gift of all
Today I’ll be turning in my last paper for the semester; it’s still a little unreal to me that my first semester at graduate school has come to an end. In all honesty, it could have come to an end a whole lot sooner - as in, earlier last week, if only I had been […]
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Hello, Pacific.
Friday night after the Chanukah lights were out (and moments before our roommates had their Christmas Toga Party), we set out for the beach. Colleen had only been to the beach once since we got here, and I’d never been.
It was plenty dark and cold by the time we got there, and all the […]
Latkes for the one you love
Tonight Colleen and I took a stab at making Dreama’s traditional latkes. Things started out a little rough with our lack of a food processor and what with using the blender, and then with the wateriness of the starch they kind of looked like grainy, uncooked mashed potatoes. Watery, grainy, uncooked mashed potatoes.
It got pretty […]
Blini is a gateway drug
The first blini I had, a little over a year ago in Saint Petersburg, were filled with mushrooms and potatoes. I’ve actually come to like mushrooms. They’re like a gateway vegetable; I never used to do vegetables, but ever since I tried mushrooms I’ve experimented with all kinds of other vegetables: first onions, then venturing […]
It’s the Giant Menorah, Charlie Brown
Tonight, Colleen and I are going to La Jolla to view a giant menorah. It’s not quite thirty feet tall, and I don’t think it’ll be made of wicker, but I’m bringing my camera just in case. If you’re into the latke thing, check out this recipe Dreama posted over at Random Again. I think, […]
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Death by Dreidel
So far, this has truly been the Chanukah of the Dreidel. Colleen’s really getting into the whole “doing it right” thing, so she’s learning the menorah prayers and bought herself one of these itsy bitsy dreidels, and some mint M&M’s to use for gelt (since the store where we bought the dreidel didn’t have proper […]
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