As you can see, we spent sunday afternoon making Hamentaschen for Purim (which my daughter tells me is next weekend). The best recipe, if you're interested, is on the Martha Stewart totally waspy goyisha but don't want to alienate my jewish audience since I am still very closely linked with the entertainment industry web site. And I mean that sincerely... the recipe, I mean. It is an awesome recipe, there is orange zest in the dough (as I understand it the jews are not generally into 'zesting' but it is kosher, I checked with the Rabbi, otherwise known as our friend Eugene). The girls picked the fillings (which I believe are Kosher but not all traditional): apricot jam (my favorite), cherry jam (a little runny), lemon confiture, Nutella (we are in France), dark chocolate, peanut butter (recent gift from a visitor), PB & J and PB & Chocolate. Quite the assortment, huh? What made the day of baking extra fun was that I was well rested from a weekend without the children (thank you, Amy) as they both spent the weekend with friends and Ethan and I were able to spend the weekend relaxing together. What did we do, with all that was available to us, you ask? We ate at good restaurants, we saw good movies (American) and we explored a new neighborhood (Canal at Saint Martin, old neighborhood, new to us). What didn't we do, you ask? We didn't rush. We didn't yell or nag. We didn't cook or do laundry or shop. It was really a nice weekend. Not that we don't have nice weekends with the children (thank you, Amy), we do all the time. But this was different and a nice change of pace. And thank you to our new friends who had our kids for the weekend and told us it was their pleasure and that it was no problem at all. (I'm sure if we knew them a little better they wouldn't have lied to our faces but since we are all still playing nice, they did, so thank you.) Until next time...
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