Pesach cleaning.

[xiphias]

For Pesach, I'm trying to clean to "normal person" standards, rather than to "Pesach Crazy" standards. The thing is, I think this is going to take me pretty much until Pesach to do. I'm just trying to get the place up to the standard that I want to KEEP the place. So Pesach is a very useful deadline for me.

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[snippy]

I'm worried about getting the cooking done this weekend! Gefilte fish (I make my own-a Sephardic recipe) and matzoh ball soup and I haven't even planned what else.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I once had a "not-really-Gefilte-fish" Sephardic dish at a seder. It had some similarities to gefilte fish. The most significant change was that, instead of being boiled, it was deep-fried.

Pretty darned good, it was.

[snippy]

This recipe is fried patties (not deep-fried), then baked in tomato sauce. Good cold, room temp, or warm.

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

Some of my customers have confided in me that they don't do the whole shebang, cleaning the cupboards out and getting every scrap of possibly-leavened food out. Others do. But I've noticed it's like a lot of things, in that what you do is pretty much a function of what your mother did.

One of my customers who said she does the complete cleaning confided that honestly it's the only way she'd ever make sure her cupboards would get cleaned at least once a year. Which as a person who values cleanliness, I totally get.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I do a lot less than my mother does. I mean, she's totally overwhelmed and tired this year, and she's nonetheless kashering the kitchen, even if she's doing less with the rest of the house.

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

You know, as I cleaned my stovetop yesterday morning, simply soaking some of the difficult stuff with 409 and letting it go, I thought, "I should call my kids in to show them what a perfectly-clean-for-Pesach-according-to-halacha-rather-than-shthus" stove looks like. I've already instructed them that in looking for chametz in the rest of the house they're looking for pieces the size of an cheerio, or bigger. Some day they may need to explain to their wives (because no husband would do this nonsense!) that "really, dear, you're not required in halacha to wash the ceiling."

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

I set aside a pesach table and mini-fridge, and have my pans and sponges seperate, and don't let anything touch the sink. That's the extent of it, because I live with 4 non-Jews. It's a pain, but there you go. At the very least I kashered my hand blender, so I can live primarily on spinach and fruit and dairy smoothies for the week.