easyblog PENTECOST SUNDAY

PENTECOST SUNDAY

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Today is Pentecost, from greek:Πεντηκοστή [ἡμέρα], Pentēkostē [hēmera], “the Fiftieth [day]” – a feast commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the twelve Apostles of Christ. But primal it’s a jewish feast in the calendar of ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai. This feast is still celebrated as Shavuot. The word Shavuot means weeks, and the festival of Shavuot marks the completion of the seven-week counting period between Passover and Shavuot. Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the entire nation of Israel and the Torah is compared to milk by King Solomon, who wrote: “Like honey and milk, it lies under your tongue”.
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We decided to prepare a jewish meal for today, because we think the jewish kitchen is very interesting. You can discover or re-discover meals you know and prepare them on another way. And because it’s the feast of the milk we prepared some traditional jewish Shavout dishes.

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Best for this feast are the BLINTZES, maybe similar with pancakes or Crepes. You can choose between common cheese blintzes or you can fill them with whatever you want. RECIPE is here.

We used Crepes Breton, they are prebaked and you can buy them here everywhere, because my mom is lazy.

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We prepared our blintzes with smoked salmon and a cream which is for preparing Flammkueche, an alsatian (NOT the dog!) delicacy, because it’s perfect seasoned for smoked salmon. As sidedish we prepared a salad with green asparagus, lettuce, tomatoes, corn and slices of white peaches. Even me got a blintz, filled with cottage cheese. To little – but mom said I had a half of a cow with carrots and rice and that would be enough … PAH! AS IF!

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Mom set the table in white (feast of the milk) and predicts a painful dead to all dribble-guys, so I decided to use the “great” table on the floor and dad had to run the gauntlet – or to eat the gauntlet? Who cares, it’s his jacksie not mine….
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For dessert – please hold your breath! – we prepared a… a CHEESECAKE! Yeah! But this time a traditional strawberry cheesecake, so we hope the after- and side effects will be not as hard as usual. Mom prepared the base from smashed cookies and butter and for the dressing we used cream cheese and this darned strawberries I hate. In case that my mom believes in youtube-tutorials we had no more gelatin, mom used it to look stupid for weeks with a half liquidated eyebrow for a wonder-facial mask. But we are the masters of all disasters situations and used custard powder for an instant mousse and this was much better than the gelatin-stuff, because the smell of this stiffing-stuff is awful. Like the smell of this strawberries from hell – did I mentioned that I hate strawberries? Yup! They are made from straw and so is the taste…Count me out for this red boogers.. No way!
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Later we had a walk through my village, which we had to interrupt in case of pressing business (the cheesecake). Instead to spend the Pentecost-Sunday on my bed I’m now on standby with a pack of TP-Rolls.That’s not the kind of career they predicted on my cradle… Who want’s to be the Potty-guy?… NOT ME!
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HAVE A HAPPY PENTECOST, A HAPPY SHAVUOT or A HAPPY SUNDAY ALL!