Between Saturday and Sunday morning, I went to six supermarkets on the hunt for matzo. I couldn't believe that not one store carried any. Not one box anywhere. Since we didn't have plans to go to LA to be with family and hadn't invited them to make the drive to our house, Steve and I kept things casual and had no Seder. But no matzo at all? How could it really feel like Passover without any? It turns out that there's some sort of delivery or manufacturing snafu with Manischewitz this year. One grocer knew what was going on and told me that one of their supermarkets had received a delivery of 10 cases of another brand. Off I went to hunt down the elusive matzos and was finally victorious!
I think that next year we'll see if we can plan a family Seder. We had one at our house a couple years ago and it was nice. Before that we'd make the drive down to LA which isn't always easy to plan around. I'd also like to make a family Haggadah with some of my illustrations and maybe a few quilted designs. In a little bit I'll start cooking my MIL's pastel - basically a meat pie that uses matzo as the top and bottom pieces. It's good, but I think that I'll add a bit more onion and some red pepper flakes in it because Steve really likes things spicy. Just not too much spice else I won't enjoy it as much. If you're celebrating, have a happy Pesach! If you don't, then I hope you're enjoying the beautiful Spring time. :-)
