{"id":47276,"date":"2021-03-26T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=47276"},"modified":"2021-03-26T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:05:41","slug":"holiday-happy-passover-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-passover-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLIDAY: HAPPY PASSOVER 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>HAPPY PASSOVER 2021<\/h1>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe another Passover is upon us tomorrow night, and we&#8217;re still in our houses!\u00a0 Well, the smart and conscientious among us are, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/12998717_825263804246743_1542675995513667896_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47272\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/12998717_825263804246743_1542675995513667896_n-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"12998717_825263804246743_1542675995513667896_n\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/12998717_825263804246743_1542675995513667896_n-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/12998717_825263804246743_1542675995513667896_n.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>During last year&#8217;s lockdown, I made a little seder dinner for just Mr. X and me, even though he&#8217;s not even Jewish!\u00a0 (So it was akin to a little girl having a tea party with her stuffed animals.) And at that time, I was just <em>beginning<\/em> to cook, thinking that little endeavor of mine would last for another month at best.\u00a0 Now here I am, practically a gourmet chef!\u00a0 Who woulda thunk it?!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll be cooking our own Passover meal for what I hope will be the last year I&#8217;m doing it myself.\u00a0 Mr. X doesn&#8217;t even like chicken much, which is our main dish, and he doesn&#8217;t eat brisket, (which, unfortunately, I <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> eat anymore,) but he&#8217;s definitely looking forward to my special holiday fare this year.\u00a0 Can anyone guess why?\u00a0 (I would think not, unless you&#8217;re a major follower of my recipes section.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s because of my&#8230;Tower of Matzahs!!! Yes, I&#8217;ll be making that delicious dessert dish once again, this time with the <em>correct<\/em> ingredients. (Well, <em>most<\/em> of them; I forgot to buy heavy cream on my last foray out of the house, and I&#8217;m not going to chance going out again for just one ingredient. So I&#8217;ll be whipping up my own cream out of 2% boxed milk and unsalted plant butter! Wish me luck with that one.)<\/p>\n<p>I created the Tower last year at this time with a couple of <em>incorrect<\/em> ingredients, (which you can read about here, including the recipe that I highly recommend to<em> everyone<\/em>, not just the readers of my ethnic persuasion: <a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/recipe-tower-of-matzahs-recipe\">itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/recipe-tower-of-matzahs-recipe<\/a>,) and then made it again later in 2020, just for fun, following my own recipe <em>exactly<\/em>. And the verdict was&#8230;they were<em> equally<\/em> delicious! (Of course, there were only <em>two<\/em> judges&#8211;Mr. X and myself&#8211;but still&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47273\" style=\"width: 712px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Charles-Fazzino-Wishes-Collectors-Happy-Passover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47273\" class=\"size-large wp-image-47273\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Charles-Fazzino-Wishes-Collectors-Happy-Passover-1024x697.jpg\" alt=\"I wish I could read this artist's name to give credit to him or her.  But it's such a happy image that I just had to share it.\" width=\"702\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Charles-Fazzino-Wishes-Collectors-Happy-Passover-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Charles-Fazzino-Wishes-Collectors-Happy-Passover-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Charles-Fazzino-Wishes-Collectors-Happy-Passover.jpg 2032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I wish I could read this artist&#8217;s name to give credit to him or her. But it&#8217;s such a happy image that I just had to share it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So there you have it\u2014my Passover plans. And if ever there was a Passover that we all really needed to stay at home for, I&#8217;m glad it will be <em>this<\/em> one\u2014tomorrow, March 27th, the night of the first seder, is also the first day of the Sweet 16 of March Madness 2021! That means that I wouldn&#8217;t want to go to any friends&#8217; houses for the seders this year, anyway, because I don&#8217;t want to miss any games in this wonderful college basketball tournament! (One year, the Championship game was on during the first night of the holiday, but I still chose to go to my friend&#8217;s house for the seder because I thought it was the right thing to do. Her husband and I could barely contain our disappointment in missing the game. We kept coming up with excuses to leave the table and run into a room where we had kept the TV on, so we could see little snippets of the game! It was torture.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/passover.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47275\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/passover-285x300.gif\" alt=\"passover\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>So Mr. X and I will just say, \u201cL&#8217;Chaim\u201d to each other, (or <em>whatever<\/em> we&#8217;re supposed to say on this occasion\u2014my Jewish holiday skills are a tad rusty right about now,) and chow down on my home-cooked ethnic food in front of the TV. And that&#8217;s just the way we like it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To all of you who celebrate, whether alone or with others, I wish you a happy and <em>healthy<\/em> Passover! (And if you <em>do<\/em> make my Tower of Matzahs, please let me know how it turns-out, in the Comments section below.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY PASSOVER 2021 I can&#8217;t believe another Passover is upon us tomorrow night, and we&#8217;re still in our houses!\u00a0 Well, the smart and conscientious among us are, anyway. During last year&#8217;s lockdown, I made a little seder dinner for just Mr. X and me, even though he&#8217;s not even Jewish!\u00a0 (So it was akin to<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-passover-2021\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47276"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47291,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47276\/revisions\/47291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}