SHLIMAZEL

How do I explain what a shlimazzle is? A shlemiel is the guy who always spills his soup. The shlimazel is the guy the soup spills on. Get it?

Well, I told you how I did my impression of Sonia Heini a few years ago in my kitchen. Remeber? The kid, Joe College was off on his quest for six months to South America and there was one tiny drop of water on the floor and I found it and did the splits?

That is being a shlimazel.

Yesterday, somehow...actually, I know how. I was sitting at the computer and reached up to put my legs on the dining room chair and when I finally broght them back down to earth again, don't ask.

Ok. Ask already. I pulled a muscle...stretched something...next to my knee...on the left side. OUCH OUCH OUCH!!!

Lucky, it was the same side where I did my splits so the end result is that I'm limping on the same foot. I mean, picture if it had been on the other side. I would have looked like either I just got off a horse, or had been at sea for the past year and a half.

To put it mildly, I am not a happy camper. OUCH OUCH OUCH!!!

The good news is that my daughter-in-law has invited the entire family, including Bubbie Channah, OF COURSE, to her house for Shavuot on Tuesday night and get this...I don't have to cook!

Yahoooooooooooo. I get to come as a guest. What a gift.

I'll let you know how it was. In the meantime, I will still make my huha white chocolate cheese cake...that is tomorrow's blog so get your pencil and paper ready...and my tofu chocolate cheese cake (I'll let you know if it tastes gorgeous or like you know what) and kaddeh.

Kaddeh is a traditional Kurdi (my husband is from Kurdistan) dish only served at Shavuot. The original recipe calls for a yeast bread dough which you roll out and fill with cheese and then cook on a huge upside down wok over a wood burning fire.

Yah, right! Here is my version. I buy a package of frozen malawach (Yeminite flat bread) and while it is still frozen I take each circle and cut it in half. I add a mixture of grated very salty white cheese and grated yellow cheese to the half and fold it into a triangle and seal the sides.

Then I simply cook it on the stove in a heavy frying pan. Trust me it is gorgeous!

so, I'm making kaddeh and I think salmon. We only eat dairy on Shavuot...no meat or chicken. Hard when you have a kid who isn't eating any milk products, but I will manage.

Godda run. Teaching from noon till seven tonight. English bagrut (matriculation) exam is tomorrow. After that I should have more time to shmooze.

Shmooze? Kinda like shoot the breeze...gossip...you know, chat.

In case you forgot...OUCH OUCH OUCH!

Shavuah tov.

Have a great day...stay safe...and thanks for dropping in.