Author Topic: April Game - food thread, to keep the attendance thread clear (Read 6641 times)

Nike 'Slays the Patriarchy' Strilakos · « **on:** March 30, 2011, 10:40:33 AM »

Hi guys

So April game

As some of you know, and the rest are about to find out, the April game is in the middle of Passover. Why should you care, you might ask yourself. Well, see, i have my own personal version of the crazy, which i am about to share with you.

See, i observe strictly the rules for Passover, in my house. And the common house, is well, my house. And one of the things i generally observe (and it is why you will never see food with pork in my house either) is that i will not serve to other Jews things that i myself believe to be against the rules. And this game has a bunch of Jews in it, such that i must only serve food that is acceptable for Passover at the next game.

Now comes the fun part. Any food you bring to share is... still food i am serving at my house. So it needs to also conform to the crazy.

Matt Kamm said he will bring vegetarian food that is cool (because i am at a loss of what to do when you can't have beans or grains or peanuts or rice OR meat...) and i will be making this thing that has chicken and potatoes and raisins and stuff.

so as a summary, because G-d took my people out of Egypt, we all must suffer. Um, wait no. Because i am asking you really really nicely, pretty please do not bring food to share to this game, it is not a good one for that.

There will be lunch, there will be soda, and we can all go out for dinner.

um, thank you for listening to my crazy

Anna

PEBE · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2011, 10:43:50 AM »

For those of us who aren't fully Jewish, or managed to forget everything they learned in CCD/Catholic HS.. What are some guidelines about what's kosher (literally?) and what's not?

Cause as partial as I am to baked goods, now I'm remembering things about unleavened bread that (I think) help me understand why my tasty pastry friends will not be welcome.

Nike 'Slays the Patriarchy' Strilakos · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2011, 10:49:51 AM »

Things that are allowed on passover:

Matzah that is labeled KFP
Coke form canada -labeled KFP

things not allowed on passover:
-grains. all of them ever unless made into Matzah, so, pie crust, bread, cereal, cookies, you know everything i like...
-legumes. all of them including peanuts
-corn, including corn syrup in normal coke
-soy products(cause it is a legume) - makes being a vegetarian horrid for a week
-pasta -cause it is made of grain
-rice - cause it is a grain

um... there are rules and then there are fences around the rules, and fences around the fences and it gets complicated and convoluted.

PEBE · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2011, 10:53:46 AM »

Thanks for the clarification!

AndrewD · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2011, 11:02:39 AM »

I feel like PK and I will bring matzah and cheese.

Nike 'Slays the Patriarchy' Strilakos · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2011, 11:08:06 AM »

Hey Matzah and cheese are great things together. esp when nuked into fake-pizza

but i actually kinda like the bread of our affliction so...

Seven Mountains · « **Reply #6 on:** March 30, 2011, 11:14:15 AM »

So in short if our personal diets can't conform to your Passover needs we should consider bringing a personal meal and storing it in the fridge? Can we bring foods which do not condone to Passover edicts but that which we have no intention of sharing?

While I don't particularly condone the need to adjust my diet to fit the religious beliefs of others, you have been kind enough to host so I shall shut my pie hole and ask how best I could accommodate my nutritional needs to fit the environment you would like to maintain.

Was that PC?

Nike 'Slays the Patriarchy' Strilakos · « **Reply #7 on:** March 30, 2011, 11:16:17 AM »

You can bring whatever you want, put it labeled in the right-hand fridge, and heat it up in the microwave.

JamesLee · « **Reply #8 on:** March 30, 2011, 11:37:04 AM »

Good to know. I'm pretty content having my free meals for the day be Passover-friendly, given how delicious that can be. (a. Potatoes are better than bread in almost all cases. b. Sheena, does this mean your mom has some of those amazing rolls? And soup? I swear I love her for more than her cooking.)

I'll still be bringing delicious baked goods, but they'll be things Anna can eat as well. And no, there won't be any Matzah involved.

JamesLee · « **Reply #9 on:** March 30, 2011, 11:39:09 AM »

Actually there might be, but only because this recipe looks delicious.

Any other food restrictions I should know about? Walnut allergies would be relevant given some of the things I'm looking at.

Kerberos · « **Reply #10 on:** March 30, 2011, 11:47:24 AM »

I will see what I can bring. If I have time/brain the night before I will make rolls and/or cookies or whatever I can find/make that's kosher for passover. There's a lot you can do with matzah meal and passover cake meal.

Alexander Amarandus van Bokkelen · « **Reply #11 on:** March 30, 2011, 11:50:46 AM »

Quote from: Dominic van Bokkelen on March 30, 2011, 11:37:04 AM

Sheena ... your mom ... I swear I love her for more than her cooking.)

I, for one, enjoy the excellent sex she provides.

On an unrelated note, I am likely to order food from somewhere at next game.

Val · « **Reply #12 on:** March 30, 2011, 05:14:53 PM »

I would like to partake of the kosher-for-Passover food generated by other people. I cannot bring such food myself, having grown up in a firmly secular household, having never actually kept kosher-for-Passover for an entire Passover, and having a troubled relationship with Jewish observance in general. (Aside: my first act on Earth, prompting my mother to enter labor, also cancelled my family's Seder that year. It hasn't really gotten better since then.) I am willing to bring beverages/paper plates/utensils/stuff of that nature if it'd be helpful, though. I know my grocery store stocks kosher-for-Passover Coke.

Question for someone with more dots in Lore (Jewish): are aspartame-sweetened diet sodas allowed?

Edited to add: I have no dietary restrictions and no food allergies. I will eat whatever things are provided to me for the eating.

Justin Northwood · « **Reply #13 on:** March 30, 2011, 09:36:41 PM »

Quote from: Jamie on March 30, 2011, 05:14:53 PM

...my first act on Earth, prompting my mother to enter labor, also cancelled my family's Seder that year. It hasn't really gotten better since then.

That is the essence of Jewish guilt right there!

MAGNUSSON PAYS WITH BLOOD · « **Reply #14 on:** March 31, 2011, 07:36:11 AM »

Since apparently deathbars are out of the picture for this upcoming month, what terrible-choices snack or foodstuff would you folks recommend I make? We can't be too healthy, now.

Kerberos · « **Reply #15 on:** March 31, 2011, 08:47:24 AM »

Quote from: Jamie on March 30, 2011, 05:14:53 PM

Question for someone with more dots in Lore (Jewish): are aspartame-sweetened diet sodas allowed?

As someone with 5 dots in Jew Lore, that's fine as long as it doesn't have corn syrup. Some people need to have it say "kosher for passover" on it, but unless someone here refutes me, no one here is that serious about it.

As someone who comes from a middle-eastern family who can eat corn and rice and beans on passover, I don't care. I just like mocking those poor Eastern European who can't eat sushi on passover.

Nike 'Slays the Patriarchy' Strilakos · « **Reply #16 on:** March 31, 2011, 08:51:40 AM »

you are a bad man sheena and your sushi mocking will be remembered.

JamesLee · « **Reply #17 on:** April 21, 2011, 09:15:20 PM »

So I figure a chocolate cake is an okay go-to (since I could probably finish one off myself), but how do people feel about cheesecake?

Shulamith · « **Reply #18 on:** April 21, 2011, 10:09:07 PM »

If said cheese cake contains no lemon, I'll happily eat it.

Kiara · « **Reply #19 on:** April 21, 2011, 10:16:57 PM »

o0o0o sushi...enter craving here...I will...probably go out...or bring matzoh...iuno depends on store trip convience...
Being someone obsessed with rules of hopsitality I think what anna was trying to say is that she cant have food served in her house that is not kosher even if shes not the one serving it and is therefore encouraging us to go out rather than risk disobeying the laws of her religion...am i correct?

JamesLee · « **Reply #20 on:** April 22, 2011, 05:49:14 AM »

Quote from: Shulamith on April 21, 2011, 10:09:07 PM

If said cheese cake contains no lemon, I'll happily eat it.

Cool. Good to know. Any preferences re: flavor?

Quote from: Kiara on April 21, 2011, 10:16:57 PM

Being someone obsessed with rules of hopsitality I think what anna was trying to say is that she cant have food served in her house that is not kosher even if shes not the one serving it and is therefore encouraging us to go out rather than risk disobeying the laws of her religion...am i correct?

Going out is certainly an option, yes, but Anna is also making food for lunch and couple of us are cooking/baking as well. All food made and served will be Kosher for Passover.

Jerry Castillo · « **Reply #21 on:** April 22, 2011, 07:55:33 AM »

Cheesecake is ssssstink-bad and an abomination.

That said, I have no objection to others eating it.

Plagueslayer · « **Reply #22 on:** April 22, 2011, 10:13:10 AM »

Hey you dity dirty bone gnawer do not blaspheme the greatest of cakes! My personal addiction to cheesecake aside... its awesome.

Also as someone who hasn't really had access to KFP foods and culture Im kind of looking forward to this whole thing. On the very off chance I don't like anything I can always order out but barring that exploring the whole thing is going to be great.

Jerry Castillo · « **Reply #23 on:** April 22, 2011, 03:21:47 PM »

I'll be bringing potato and mushroom croquettes.

JamesLee · « **Reply #24 on:** April 22, 2011, 04:42:15 PM »

Hm. Ingredients have grown complicated, unfortunately. Cheesecake may not occur. Chocolate cake still will.

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Author Topic: April Game - food thread, to keep the attendance thread clear (Read 6641 times)