Edamommy’s Vegan Diary: See you Seder! & Achieving Bagel Equilibrium
One edamommy attempts to cut meat out of her life.
I know I am not a full-fledged vegan. I’m still not sure joining TV (Team Vegan) is my ultimate destiny.But, on a non-vegan front, I believe I may have reformed the Reform Judaic Seder at my daughter’s preschool with a decidedly non-vegan move. I was asked to bring hard-boiled eggs to the Seder celebration yesterday and I posed what I thought was a typical question: peeled or unpeeled? Then, I happened to mention to the preschool director that I buy eggs already hardboiled and peeled.Complete silence.“You do what?”Feeling sheepish at my flagrant lack of knowledge of Seder customs, I responded “I buy them already cooked and peeled.”“You can buy them cooked and peeled???” They responded in unison in complete disbelief. “Where, oh where, can we buy these eggs?”
Apparently, making the hardboiled eggs is a major thorn in the side of Seder prep, at least for these two women. Ironically, we attended the children’s Seder and the meal that followed; someone had made their own eggs and they were not cooked all of the way through (Salmonella Seder?). Sometimes it pays to cheat.I have to tackle one other awkward non-vegan/Seder subject. I have to admit something, in addition to the embarrassing habit of choosing theme songs for events in my life (see Day 1).I fall down miserably when it comes to bagel equilibrium. Bagel equilibrium is achieved when you have enough bagels and their accoutrements including cream cheese (I eat with peanut butter now) and broccoli sprouts (more on sprouts later – I married into the broccoli sprout empire so there might be some shameless promotion for www.brassica.com).I always am short of one ingredient—tubs of cream cheese, no bagels, no sprouts; dozen bagels, no cream cheese, 3 boxes of sprouts. You get the picture.So, I finally, finally reached bagel equilibrium and now it’s Passover. No bagels, just matzah for a week.Happy Passover. I hope you achieve unleavened equilibrium.
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April 18th, 2008 at 11:30 am
The Bagel Equilibrium sounds like a corollary to the principle which drives me to surrepetitiously shave/hack off pieces of non-carob (no, no never) brownie in the pan, in an attempt to “even up” the edges.
I can only imagine what Adrian Monk must go through. That character might make a good poster-boy for the Vegan Cause, Edda (Hopper) Mommy.
Clarification: Are you sanctioning the simultaneous ingestion of Broccoli Sprouts AND peanut butter? Peanut butter and horseradish is DELICIOUS together, incidentally. And offense-free!
April 18th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
HHF:
You always introduce the most interesting twists. I eat sprouts with just about everything including peanut butter. It makes it crunchier. We call the bagels, cream cheese and sprout bagel the “Hairy Bagel” which sounds disgusting but is delicious.
I made a fab pesto the other night with tons of basil, walnuts, white vinegar, garlic and broccoli sprouts. I actually forgot to add olive oil but it was really good without it.
Edamommy