two days to make and one hour to eat.

I made apple-honey challah, homemade applesauce (from a tree right across the street), Italian-Jewish style brisket (dominic really claimed this as his own though), baba gonoush, potato latkes, matzo ball soup complete with homemade chicken stock (also a dominic contribution) and a sweet tasting kugel.

we had 7 friends come over, an extra table and chairs delivered, lots of wine as gifts, one bottle of grape manichevitz and the vegetarian even made liverless chopped liver.

we talked about religion, making tea, creating children's books, how big your thighs get when you ride a bike and i got to feel my friend's belly when the baby inside her started to hiccup.

we cooked for 2 days (the bread alone took about 4 hours to RISE and knead and so on), we ate in a matter of 60 minutes, we talked for 2 hours, we cleaned up and put everything away in a matter of minutes.

i couldn't have been happier.