re: #181 lawhawk

I will be doing matzah ball duty later today ahead of Yom Kippur… I’m thinking of doing a Yemeni style soup, with lots of tumeric in the matzah balls with fresh herbs… The stock is already prepared (I freeze a bunch from when I make stock previously). Since it’s just the Mrs. and I, we are free to experiment as much as we want…

Just don’t add too much spice right before Yom Kippur, it can make you really thirsty.

I made a big pot of soup last week and a big batch of kreplach on Wednesday so we are good to go.

Z and I no longer do kapparos with the chickens (for which the neighbor’s chicken that gets out of their yard & up on our front porch should be thankful). The chickens are supposed to be distributed to the needy but in most cases they end up getting thrown out so that’s a huge waste and a sin. And even if you were needy & someone gave you a kapporos chicken dinner, would you want to eat a chicken full of somebody else’s sins?

We do kapparos on money and make a donation to Pantry Packers, a food bank that my son-in-law runs in Jerusalem. Other worthy destinations for the sin-full money are Masbia Soup Kitchen and Chef Andrés World Central Kitchen.