“I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs… but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs. “
Home again, home again jiggety-jig! My connection problems are a thing of the past. Happy, happy!
The weather is getting colder. I was lulled into a false sense of spring when we actually reached 50˚ on Wednesday, but Mother Nature is now cackling and rubbing her hands in glee at having duped me. They, as in weathermen, are saying possible snow showers on Saturday so spring is still in the wings.
It is raining again today, and the dampness chills the bones. Francisca and I, however, are intrepid souls, and are going out when I finish here to a few shops and to the Zion Union Heritage Museum.
I give my two friends an Easter basket and have already bought trinkets for them and am hoping for a couple of more when I shop today. Some are useful while others are just whimsical. The candy I’ll buy next week. I think I’d be too tempted to eat it if it were already around the house. We, as kids, always had inexpensive chocolate. We didn’t care. Candy was candy. Now, I buy it all at the candy store.
Our Easter baskets were the best. There was candy: a chocolate rabbit which was a tradition and a necessity, jelly beans which always tasted the same no matter the color, big, hard colored beans with white in the middle and the filler candy like a little rabbit or a chocolate egg. Small toys were also in the basket. I remember yo-yos, paddle balls, a box of crayons, an Easter coloring book, a stuffed animal, usually a small rabbit, and even a pail and shovel. The grass which covered the bottom was always plastic and the rabbit with missing eaten ears used to stick to the grass. The adult me thinks it sort of gross, but the kid me didn’t care and just pulled the grass off rabbit.
Easter will come as it must, but it will not be in spring unless all of the vestiges of winter disappear.
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March 27, 2015 at 12:38 pm
Although I don’t celebrate Easter, I love candy, especially chocolate. The large solid rabbits used to be my favorite until they started hollowing out the middle and now they are just a shell of a chocolate animal. These days I can devour a dozen Cadbury filled eggs at one sitting. Milk chocolate eggs filled with cream and caramel are my passion every Spring. The dark chocolate marshmallow eggs are a distant second followed by Jelly Belly jelly beans. Each of those jelly beans has a distinct flavor and the variety is endless. The marshmallows chicks were and are still not worth the effort or calories. The only thing I liked about President Reagan was that he popularized Jelly Belly by keeping a jar on his desk in the White House.
The most widely celebrated Jewish holiday coincides with Easter, Passover. Most modern biblical scholars now agree that the last supper was a Passover Seder. Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of any of the traditional foods eaten during the eight day holiday except matzo ball soup. After eating matzo for a week you need the prep for a colonoscopy to get your bowel working again. 🙂
When I was a kid my uncle would get milk chocolate lollipops as the reward for having to sit through the Sedar conducted by my Orthodox grand father. Regardless of his strict observance my parents always made sure my sister and I had an Easter basket full of candy. After all candy is a non denominational celebration.
I got the car washed today even though there’s a chance of rain on Monday and Tuesday. I had to get all that crud from the recent snow and sleet storms off the car. My backup camera was covered in dirt. The sky is clear and the temperature should top out in the mid 70s.
March 27, 2015 at 1:33 pm
Bob,
I too am a lover of chocolate. I usually buy really quality chocolate so I’m a bit of a snob about it. The candy shops still have the solid bunnies. I always buy a couple for my friends and one for me, a bit of Happy Easter to me. I have a Jelly Belly dispenser which looks like a gum ball machine. It was an Easter gift one year. I love all the flavors. They taste exactly as they should. The tropical ones are my favorites. When I was in Ghana, the Easter package took so long to get to me the Peeps were hard as a rock. Now that’s the only way I can eat them. My mother would buy them and take the plastic off so they’d be hard by Easter.
I buy Matso crackers but use them as crackers, not in soup. My friend showed me how to make dessert with them and chocolate. That is tasty.
The Easter basket is totally non-denominational though the Christian celebration of Easter is an important part of the liturgy. People who never go to church are called Christmas-Easter Christians as they only go those days.
We always used to say washing your car is an invitation for rain!
March 27, 2015 at 4:14 pm
I figured that the Easter basket was not mentioned in the New Testament. It may have been mentioned in the books that they decided not to include in the Bible such as the “First and Second Book of Profits”.
Synagogue architects have difficulty designing a sanctuary that is intimate enough when accommodating the few members who worship every Sabbath and then seating the hundreds who show up on the High Holidays. Usually they connect the sanctuary with an auditorium through folding walls to allow them to open up the sanctuary on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and placing folding chairs when the rest of the members of the congregation attend. Many of us are basically gastronomically religious. 🙂 I enjoy bagels and lox among other traditionally Jewish food. Most American Jewish families came from Eastern Europe and most ‘Jewish’ food is really the dishes their family brought from Russia, Poland and other places in Europe. Many Jewish families came from the Middle East and their traditional cuisine is very different.
March 27, 2015 at 5:38 pm
Bob,
Baskets come in all shapes including pails and shovels. I’m using African baskets as baskets this year.
You got me curious about the basket’s origin. I found this, “And in the spring, it was customary to take baskets of early seedlings to the fertility goddess Eostre (or Oestre) to increase the chance of a good harvest. According to the legends, the fertility goddess Eostre (or Oestre) carried a basket of eggs. Thus, Easter baskets signify new life, rebirth and renewal. The Easter Basket ritual has its origins in the German folklore of the Easter Hare. According to a German legend, a white hare would leave Easter baskets filled with candies, brightly colored eggs and other goodies for kids to come and gorge on them on Easter morning.” There were many other stories.
So you have Passover Jews-I know the breed.
I love bagels, not lox.
March 27, 2015 at 12:42 pm
Nice weather today and tomorrow but after that the rain and wind will return. I wouldn’t mind the rain if it didn’t mean strong winds again, I’m so tired of storms now.
I’m glad Your internet problems are over again! So annoying when it happens. I don’t have a router so if my internet refuse to work it’s either a problem with the internet company or the modem, so far I have to say that the modems I’ve had always worked as they should.
WE don’t have easter baskets here, instead we have easter eggs made from papier mache and we fill them with the candy. They are usually so small that only candy fits in them though.
We had much the same candy in our eggs and I guess it’s much teh same today to be honest. They tend to sell that kind of candy much cheaper around easter 🙂 There will of course be chickens made from marzipan and dipped in chocolate, no eater without them 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
March 27, 2015 at 1:37 pm
Christer,
Very chilly today though it is 41˚ because the rain makes the damp day feel so much colder.
The CD wouldn’t be recognized by my MAC and that was what was frustrating. Luckily I got the best directions from the Linksys tech and they were easy to complete.
I know exactly what you mean by the paper ache eggs. I used to buy them for my mother’s basket. She liked them for decoration.
Marzipan is not big around here. More of it is sold at Christmas but I don’t ever see it here. In Boston there is a store with the best marzipan animals.
Enjoy your evening!
March 27, 2015 at 5:45 pm
Hi Kat,
Yay for no more internet connection problems.
Our Easter baskets had the obligatory chocolate Easter bunny (eat the ears first), jelly beans and marshmallow eggs and cream eggs. I did not like marshmallow or cream eggs and I really loathed the chocolate covered coconut eggs. What a horrible thing to do to chocolate. I would eat the chocolate coating off them and toss the coconut innards. Bleah.
I always asked for extra black jelly beans. I think we got gelt for Easter too, just like Christmas. not never got anything other than candy.
Regarding the quote above, it would be something I’d say. The Piki Dog Chocolate Caper has put me right off Cadbury mini eggs this year. 😦
Today was rainy and damp but not cold. I found a lot more buds in the bits of yard that are appearing out from under the snow. It’s getting better.
Enjoy the day.
March 27, 2015 at 7:18 pm
Hi Caryn,
Nothing is more frustrating than to be off-line. I was going to sit in the library parking lot and use their wi-fi if I couldn’t solve the problem.
I am also a black jelly bean fan. I remember sticking out my black tongue afterwards. It looked disgusting.
Cadbury’s has decided to tweak both the recipe and the packaging for the eggs, and that is causing all sorts of problems bordering on outrage.
Hard as a rock Peeps are my favorite all all.
Have a wonderful evening!
March 28, 2015 at 12:12 pm
Cadbury’s has given Hersey the license to produce and distribute Cadbury chocolate in the USA. Hersey won a suit to stop importation of British-made Cadbury’s because of that licensing agreement. The Hersey formula for Cadbury chocolate is very different and die-hard fans of British made Cadbury are incensed that they are not allowed to get the real thing any more.
On the other hand, it’s probably lucky for Piki Dog that he ate American Cadbury mini eggs because, as the vet said, they are the least offensive of chocolate poisoners.
Yay for air-dried Peeps!
And my yellow US modem light is now green. Go figure. 😀
March 28, 2015 at 12:18 pm
Caryn,
I had read that about Cadbury. I was quote upset. Since Africa, I have been a Cadbury fan. Their chocolate was better than Hershey’s to me.
Maybe the light dislike the MAC. When it is not quite 100% and is retiring the light is yellow. When it is green, it is at 100%.
Love those Peeps!