Passover meal

Today is the Thursday before Easter. Christ had his Last Supper with the apostles. In remembrance of the occasion we had a Passover type meal. I only thought of it this morning, hunted for recipes, then went shopping in the afternoon, so it was the best I and the girls could do. The girls did help too. We had such a feast with little time to prepare that I needed kitchen helpers. We started off with flat bread. I actually made it too, but didn't give it the full time to rise since I had not looked at the recipe early enough. Next came Coriander soup, except it had once dried parsely instead. Before shopping I did not think I needed to know the substitute for coriander. I could have bought fresh parsely, but didn't know I should pick it up. The kids actually liked it because it had meatballs in it. Then we had Carrots with honey sauce. They were very sweet. Benjamin loved them. The others thought they were too sweet. So did I, but I managed to eat them anyway. We also had Baked apples stuffed with figs, apples, grape juice, honey, and walnuts blended together. We all enjoyed the apples. Dessert was Dates stuffed with marzipan. I was very surprised to find that the kids liked figs and dates. We spent dinner talking about the Last Supper and afterward. We had an enjoyable time together. Then I had to enlist help to clean up. There was so much to do and my body was tired.

Now...to plan Easter dinner...