Not hamentashen.

[xiphias]

Every last one of the hamentashen in the batch I just made unfolded in the oven. That means that they're not hamentashen. Instead, they're little lumps of poppyseed filling on round lumps of dough. They still taste fine -- they just look like caviar on toast rounds. But they don't taste like caviar on toast rounds. They taste like hamentashen.

Could be worse.

Comments

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Sounds lovely!

[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

hmm.. how are they supposed to stay attached??

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

You pinch the dough closed. You know, and the dough is supposed to become one piece of dough that's triangular shaped and all.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Sounds yummy to me. :)

But, yeah, as a cook I know how I feel when I want things to be a certain shape.

A.

[gingicat]

Well, at least I'm not the only one who can't make hamentaschen stay triangular. :)

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

I volunteer to help you dispose of the unsightly things. (Mmn, poppyseed...)

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

By the way, I'm very curious about your job. Where? How often? What do you do, exactly? Are they looking for more teachers? I need part-time work as soon as this semester is over. I'm looking for somewhere I can be easily observant and still work on my long-term professional goals (psychology and teaching, in this case).

Please help?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I am the Kitah Aleph teacher at Temple B'nai Brith in Somerville, on the corner of Central and Broadway right near Winter Hill. Well, actually, we're like one building in from right on the corner, on Central.

What I do: I play with and attempt to teach, with some success, nine six-year olds about Judaica. I teach one day a week, for about two and a half hours. Plus, of course, unpaid meeting times and lesson prep and other things, too, which aren't part of that two and a half hours.

For this, I get $85 a week. While that sounds like $34/hour, it's really more like $16/hour, because of the other stuff which I do -- which is still DAMN GOOD for a Hebrew school teacher.

Lauren, who is the Gan teacher and the assistant teacher in the Dalet/Hay class, is leaving next year -- she's graduating, and will be taking a fellowship in Washington, England, or France. She's going to be tough to replace -- she's a wonderful teacher.

But, y'know, you'd be a wonderful teacher, too.

It would be one day a week. It probably wouldn't be enough money on its own. But I would love to have you there. And $85 for one day's work every week is antihistimine money, as Bullwinke puts it (not to be sneezed at).

It's a really small school. Lauren's Gan class has, like ten kids -- they meet every other week. My Aleph class has nine kids, and it's never happened that all nine of them have shown up on a given day. Isaac's Bet class has six kids. And the Dalet/Hay class (there's only one fourth grader, so she's in with the third graders) is something like ten kids, taught by Mark, who's also the director of the school.

Larry also helps teach Hebrew.

So, that's, what, thirty-five kids? Three teachers, and a board member who helps teach Hebrew, and we also have Adam, who's sixteen and helps out. If Maya joins up to help out, then we'll have two teenagers helping us, and we can claim to have a Madrachim program.

It's really small. It pays really well. It's not a whole lot of time commitment. They're going to be looking for someone to replace Lauren.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

It sounds *fantastic*. What day of the week is it, Sunday? While I'm taking a Hebrew class this summer (and possibly visiting Israel), I don't exactly have a Hebrew background. Would that be a problem? I'm far better on topics such as customs, history, and tchotchkeys (however its transliterated). :)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

That would probably not be an insurmountable problem. Lauren happens to be a very good teacher of Hebrew to fourth and fifth graders; with taking a Hebrew class, you may be far enough along to take that over; if not, I'm sure things can be reworked to make it work. I don't have a Hebrew background either.

I'll mention it to Mark on Sunday.

[tapuz.livejournal.com]

Hi! If you like sugar-cookie base, try my favorite recipe. The ones using Mitchell Fenderson's chocolate filling sometime flop into weird shapes because of all the melty butter, but I was victorious! Not one of them came undone! (Hm, I'm hungry!)