Passover Riffing

I was writing someone and telling them that I was searching for Passover recipes online. About half of them are for roast chicken, and it occurred to me that if the COI had time to roast a chicken, they certainly would have had time to make bread. My guess is that they stir fried, but my wife suggested making a seder where all of the recipes were things you could make as you fled.

Of course, the whole manna thing suggests that the COI were not too fond of their culinary choices, but I'll give it a try anyway. So for an appetizer, soup takes too long and is very heavy, but they must have had the opportunity to snag some fish as they dashed through the Red Sea , so I'd suggest a smoked fish canape'. For a main course, I think a frittata (with Jerusalem artichokes?) would be nice, quick and good to eat on the run. On the side, I don't think there was Minute Rice or microwaves yet, but couscous with onions and mushrooms would be fine if you made it sticky enough to eat with your hands, which is the way mine usually turns out anyway. For a salad, they should take advantage of one of their last opportunities before Kashrut was invented and have a wilted spinach (doubt they had any other kind) salad with bacon bits. Dessert? Honey cake, chocolate covered matzoh and fake fruit slices, of course!

I wish everyone a happy, healthy Passover. Oh, and whoever wrote that 4 kinds of children section needs to read a parenting book or two.