Weekend Hospitality

This first days of Pesach are past and our guests have (temporarily) left the building.  We hosted 7 boys from Baltimore, Cleveland and NJ [Haim Frenkle, Zack Sacks, Daniel Davis, Amishav, Sam, Robert and Etan].  Six learn at Mevaseret Zion and one learns at Netiv Aryeh.  We also had two russian high school students (11th grade) from the Naaleh program [Stas and Vitali].  The high school boys learn in a boarding school in Tirat HaCarmel in Haifa.  Last but not least, we had two young women who made aliyah this year [Sarah and Miriam]. The second seder that we supported (but did not participate in), had 13 people ranging in age from 18 to 60+.   It is a strange experience serving and cooking for people who are having a second seder. From a food perspective, we didn't have enough.  The boys are meat and potatoes people.  Anything I put on the table with meat or potatoes was devoured.  Vegetables fared a bit better, but for most meals, we had nothing left over.  I don't think anyo...

The long weekend was indeed long. We had two groups of young men with us for the past three days. The first two were high school students Benjamin Andrew Deardorff and Benjamin Jaeger from Boston. The boys are spending a semester in Israel in the Hod HaSharon area. The other group of boys were from Yeshivat Mevaserret Zion . Zachary Sax and Daniel David are from my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Eitan Finkelstein is from Toronto, Canada. Yeshua Kylman is from Tea Neck, NJ. Food wise, the chicken wings were WOW. We didn't even make the sauce. Next time, I'll make the sauce also. This recipe was simple and just great. Highly recommended. The Chicken Paprikash is pretty much no fail. I would strongly suggest de-greasing and reducing the sauce. It makes so much liquid that the chicken gets lost in the serving. Only four more days until the next holiday!

This weekend, we hosted Jeremy Watman, Chaim Frankel and Rafi Lipschitz. Jeremy is studying at Mevaseret Zion, Chaim and Rafi are at Netiv Aryeh. The stuffed pargiot went over very well. Our final numbers were 18 for lunch and we were just a bit light on food. Very little leftovers. No really bad recipes.