noodles of affliction

[starfrosting]

I don't think G-d cares, but I am none too pleased that I broke my k-for-p in Newark with some of the nastiest Chinese food I've ever had cos I was too hungry and sesame noodles seemed like a safe bet. Oh well, back on the wagon again...

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[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

I totally get it.

Today I made sweet potato latkes with flax seed meal, which is ambiguous, but I'm gonna go with the "okay" vote on this one.

I also had my annual Passover bacon. (It's complicated.)

I've been appreciating the reminder that yes, I can keep agreements with myself, and yes, I can moderate my diet (I've given up sweets for the duration instead of kitniyot). But I'm also happy remembering that if it seems important enough to eat chametz, I'll eat chametz.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you get it ;)
I appreciate the opportunity to be mindful, you know? I work in a kitchen and so far I've gotten a lot more attentive to the fact that I take little snitches off sheet pans and cutting boards now that I have to be actually mindful of what I'm sticking into my mouth.

Annual Passover bacon sounds delicious. A friend of mine in college once 'kept kosher for Passover' by getting a grilled chicken sandwich with cheese and bacon, on matzo. I am totally not one to talk.

[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

Someone brought bacon chocolate ice cream to the seder last year, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to try it. That was the start. When someone (else) brought bacon to our Peaster brunch yesterday and there were a few slices left that my vegetarian housemates wouldn't eat, I thought I'd make it a tradition. But I did have to turn down a lot of tasty brunch foods.

[strauss.livejournal.com]

I broke it briefly for a girl scout cookie yesterday. I found it during our annual Passover Easter egg hunt! irresistable.
I'm proud of myself for coming back, though--other years I've just given up. One year I broke it at a sushi making workshop, and then I was just a goner.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

I love breaking it 'briefly'-- makes sense to me! My mom and grandmother seem to have devised this rule that says you can eat chametz *outside the house, just not in-- though they may have made that up when they came to visit me when I was abroad in Dublin and they got a basket of bread put down in front of them at dinner.

[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the teshuva is more meaningful than the original commitment.

The eat whatever you want outside, just not at home thing—I've heard that about everyday kashrut. Someone explained that it was because they didn't have any problem with violating kashrut themselves, but they want their home to be kosher in case the rabbi comes over or so they don't accidentally inflict their own disobedience on some frum friend or relative. I think it's related to that medieval commentary on kashrut that states that anything you eat at a Chinese restaurant on a Christian holiday is okay.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

I knew there was precedent for my Chinese food transgression. And oh, I am thinking about brunch now...