matzoh

Using the flesh of large, fresh-water kosher fish, cooks added onions, garlic, a little egg, and matzoh meal and stuffed the filling into the skin of the fish, poaching and sometimes baking it.

For the "matzoh" balls: With your hands, mix together the ground chicken, broth, ground almonds, coconut flour, garlic, egg, oil, salt and pepper in a medium bowl.

Across town, in northwest Portage Park, longtime chef Matt Saccaro, 41, salutes the beloved Jewish and Italian delis of his mixed-marriage childhood at Frunchroom, a tiny new eatery where matzoh balls and bagels share tables with pappardelle and meatballs.

He'd start by cracking a few pieces of matzoh with his strong jewelers hands.

Beyond the Seder, the egg is at peak performance during Passover: in dishes like the iconic matzoh brei (fried matzoh) as well as in the abundance of baked goods that seem required for a holiday that, ironically, forbids the use of yeast and any food made from wheat, barley, oats, rye or spelt.

It can't be compared to the machine-made, assembly-line's mass-produced cars" It's not really about cars at allit's about matzoh!

If I close my eyes, I can still see my Odessa-born bubbe grating potatoes with a little onion, and my mother mixing in the beaten eggs and matzoh meal Dampening her hands, my mother formed palm-sized circular patties, fried them in corn oil until they turned a golden-brown, and then drained them on paper towels.

After many years of cooking for Passover, I know there are two must-have ingredients: the ever- present matzoh, in various forms, and eggs.

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But the Japanese saw to it that the community had wheat flour on Passover to bake matzoh."

Before we get to the brisket, let's discuss the "flying disk" accompaniments, which are really flattened matzoh balls.

"Classics" included a commemorative edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and former Syrian Defense Minister Mustapha Tlass' 1983 blood libel tome, The Matzoh of Zion .

Add the broth, oil and salt and beat well, then add the matzoh meal, stirring until well incorporated.

Photos of Hasidim in full garb in a wheat field, reaping for their matzoh; dressed up as Cossacks on Purim; in crowded family portraits; and firing arrows at a target representing the yetzer harah, the evil inclination: There is humor, joy, weirdness, pride, deaththe constant is celebration of the extraordinary nature of everyday life.