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pour the mixture into the pie crust and refrigerate for at least one hour once pie is chilled take 1 chocolate bar and break it up into a bowl add the reserved filling warm in microwave or put bowl into bigger bowl of hot water to melt and mix well you can add milk coconut milk or even a little of water to make it thin enough to pour pour over pie refrigerate until chocolate sets 1 hour on october 29 2021 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday march 17 2021 a quiz for middle schoolers in 2050 here are some sample quiz questions for history teachers teaching about the 2020 coronavirus pandemic please feel free to use them i ll be about 70 then please drop me a line there s an answer key included in the post good luck finding it during the 2020 corona pandemic which products were hoarded toilet paper surgical masks alco gel all of the above which of the following hobbies was not popular baking sourdough bread tie dye drone fighting making tiktok videos which of the following groups was most vulnerable to corona babies children teenagers senior citizens which vaccine was approved first by the fda moderna pfizer johnson and johnson sputnik what was the first moniker given to the coronavirus ground glass pneumonia covid 1 wuhan flu captain tripps which country was the first to vaccinate half its population israel sweden trinidad usa how many chinese residents died of coronavirus around 5000 around 40 000 around 2 million the true numbers were never released what is social distancing not talking to friends staying at least 6 feet away from people wearing a mask wearing gloves answer key 4 3 4 2 3 1 4 2 on march 17 2021 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday august 12 2020 airplane food review tamam part 2 chicken potatoes vegetables the chicken was slightly saltier than i like and i like my chicken barely cooked this was well done but not overcooked the potatoes were great the vegetables were flavored well but i didn t like the peppers overall 7 10 i d eat it again but i wouldn t look forward to it blintzes this morning i tried the blintzes one sweet cheese one apple in vanilla cream not overly sweet but definitely sweet i thought it was delicious kinneret 13 didn t like the apple and didn t try the cheese because i was already eating when i discovered that there was a second one and we re germophobles 9 10 yummy dessert or breakfast bulgarian salad fresh and good there was lettuce not pictured and the peppers were not yummy according to me and kinneret there was no zaatar on the cheese and the dressing was thousand island good kinneret said the cheese was too salty but um it s bulgarian cheese overall good salad certainly for the price i ve paid 30 for less impressive salads the salad is a full meal for someone who isn t a big eater or would be good with a sandwich for someone who eats the entire universe like me 8 10 would definitely eat again would absolutely throw out the peppers again meatballs string beans rice fry said the meatballs and rice are good but found the string beans chewy undercooked he says he d eat it again but it s not his favorite i tried it and the meatballs were good not great and the string beans were slightly undercooked and oversalted the rice was fine 7 10 satisfying reasonably tasty too much salt on august 12 2020 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday august 11 2020 airplane food review tamam pt 1 i have a crazy love of airline food so when i saw tamam was offering to let people buy airline meals i ordered a whole bunch of different things and i ll be reviewing it here cornbeef bagel the bagel is a regular roll with a hole in the middle it has a tomato pepper sauce on it that i didn t like lots and lots of pickles and sauerkraut not tons of meat but i wasn t expecting a new york deli rating it 6 10 i d eat it if i were hungry but it s not great meal with schnitzel couscous and vegetables this seems to not exist on the website so i am putting the closest picture i could find i had a bit of schnitzel and it was pretty good but i can buy that at any supermarket my son said he didn t like the couscous and veg i ll have to check it sometime fresh vegetables with thousand island sauce yum 10 10 f fresh fruit tasty and clean good mix 10 10 would be great to keep in a cooler on a tiyul i look forward to updating more in the future i ordered a whole bunch more stuff on august 11 2020 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday february 17 2020 successful aliya aliya to rise up for a jew moving to the land of israel is considered rising up going home recently someone asked what constitutes a successful aliya often people come from america england or other countries and end up miserably regretting their decision or even leaving israel and returning to their country of origin that s obviously not a successful aliya but what is how do you define success so here s my definition it s successful when you ve finished the honeymoon been through rough parts and are still happy to be here and wouldn t prefer to live somewhere else someone responded that they d never seen an aliya honeymoon so i described my experience one which resonated with many of my friends have you never talked to a new oleh fresh off the plane who thinks that all the eligible singles in israel are more attractive the food tastes better and even the air is sweeter here who still cries every time they hear a child speak hebrew who gets weepy just thinking about the kotel who looks like maria about to sing the hills are alive on erev shabbat when they re walking to shul because i ve been that girl and i ve seen it many times and then reality sets in and you would give your right arm to visit your friends family back home and a root beer or a snapple makes you so homesick it literally tastes like longing and you actually miss christmas carols even though they used to bug the heck out of you and then there s stage 3 when a root beer tastes like childhood memories but it doesn t overwhelm you and you can imagine it might be fun to take a vacation someplace other than your country of origin and when the cheese and bread and vegetables here seem normal and the fruits and vegetables back where you came from seem weird and you realize that you re a tourist there and an immigrant here and that you re never 100 going to be israeli but you belong to israel more than you belong to your old country pass the falafel i m home on february 17 2020 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday november 03 2019 fibro and the amba clinic amba is a savory condiment based on mango fenugreek and turmeric sadly there is no amba clinic there is no ketchup mustard hummus or tehina tahini clinic either i did recently read a book put out by a famous clinic named after another condiment yes the mayo clinic put out a book and i read most of it skimmed parts so here s what the book said for those of you who don t feel like spending a couple of hours yes fibromyalgia is real and it hurts it s somehow caused by either physical or emotional trauma or both but it causes neurological changes to the brain structures mainly causing brain receptors to be overactive there is no cure there isn t really any particularly good treatment therefore the top standard of care is to do cbt to convince you that you can convince yourself that it s possible to tolerate being in unthinkable pain at all times by the power of positive thinking do physical therapy so that even though you re in unthinkable pain at all times you don t allow your body to weaken do relaxation so that you don t kill the idiots who keep telling you that this is the best that they can do for you and really there s no reason you need pain medication for your extreme pain deep breaths now i read this with the extreme skepticism of someone who s really in a lot of pain and doesn t want to continue to be in such pain and then i went to a pain doctor here one of the few who is authorized to prescribe cannabis in israel and he said well this is the gold standard of care according to him pain medications and cannabis which actually blocks the over active pain receptors mentioned above are off limits to people like me so here i go cbt and physical therapy and let s see how this works you can see i haven t yet started therapy to learn how to think positively about the feeling of glass shards in my joints i start intake on wednesday at some point soon the doctor in charge is going to want me to go off of the pain medication i m on which terrifies me beyond belief my pain is already beyond what i can handle more of the time than not take away the last life line and i i just don t know on november 03 2019 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday february 20 2019 a little nonsense now and then it s winter it s cold you might need a heater some people don t like them that s a heater hater cannibals are attracted by the smell of cold humans the one coming at you now is a heater hater eater but if a buddy tries to rescue you and has to resort to violence that would be a heater hater eater beater and a grifter seeing that your buddy is violent thinks he isn t very smart and tries to sell him a bridge that person would be a heater hater eater beater cheater the grifter also heads many grifting organizations making him a heater hater eater beater cheater leader and the grifter is named after leningrad making him heater hater eater beater cheater leader peter and you wasting your time on this are heater hater eater beater cheater leader peter reader on february 20 2019 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday september 12 2018 this time of year i hear your voice when i was thirteen a boy from my synagogue a friend of mine passed away from complications from hemophilia this time of year i hear your voice it is high and sweet it is the voice of a young boy whose voice never changed to that of a man i remember you sitting next to me praying next to me singing liturgy i did not know melodies whose beauty did not come from the cantor on the bima but from my friend singing beside me there must have been others our age i know there were young children you and i led their service you playing cantor to my rabbi the two of us worked in unrehearsed harmony my knowledge coming from having watched my father yours from years of prayer i remember other times with you of course i remember talking on the phone laughing when your mother decided to clean the phone during one of our conversations i remember dancing with you at a party for israel s independence day but mostly i remember your voice on rosh hashana and yom kippur praying for forgiveness for sins you did not commit and for mercy you did not receive in memory of stephen orne on september 12 2018 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday august 17 2018 kosher in the azores self catering for a family abroad i hope you haven t come to this post hoping to find out that there s a nice big chabad house in sao miguel i m sorry to disappoint there s basically nothing kosher why did we go to the azores the european juggling convention takes place in a different european country each summer this year was azores next year is britain but it s during the nine days so we ll be giving it a miss sadly if you re used to european products then you know which things are ok throughout europe unless you re careful about chalav yisrael the milk cottage cheese yogurts the ones which don t contain grape or gelatin are all fine and some ice creams there s a portugal list but it s pretty bare as far as i know there s no bread commonly available in the azores which is ok if you re portuguese and know better feel free to comment our setup well first i ll tell you what our set up was we re a family of five with some picky eaters and some very picky eaters we rented a really cute bungalow with a fully equipped kitchen we used the fridge microwave kettle and stovetop there was an oven but we did not use it partly because of logistics of kashering and partly because we re on vacation and didn t want to be baking dishes pots pans etc so we had a complication because we flew a low cost airline back to lisbon from the azores we flew from israel via moscow but that s another story and decided to only pay for two suitcases for that leg of the flight as a result we were somewhat limited in what we could bring back with us which obviously affected what we took fortunately i had a pot and pan that were on their way out i d already bought their replacements so we took those and threw them out at the end of the trip i also bought a collapsible pot more because i was in love with the idea than because i needed it i brought along small cheap cutting boards for milk and meat and bought knives with covers for both because otherwise you end up slicing your luggage your fingers etc i don t love eating off of disposables and while they are readily available in supermarkets they re not cheap and come in tiny packs for dairy we brought our ikea kalas bowls cups and plates we didn t bring along the plastic silverware because it s unusable we actually separate the colors for meat and dairy meat is anything that includes red pink purple and orange and dairy is the rest yellow blue and green so it took two sets to bring service for 6 we re only 5 but you always need extras we had old ones in meh shape a friend recommended stainless steel but these are light and cheap and we ended up leaving them behind which we wouldn t have done with metal i bought silverware at max stock by buying the pieces separately 6 forks 6 big spoons 6 small spoons and 2 packs of 3 knives at 5 shekels each i was able to get usable silverware for 25 shekels we ll keep it for future travel can opener cheap junky one peeler good one for meat we planned to have four meat meals 2 each of the two shabbatot we were away so i bought 10 hard plastic disposable plates and we washed 5 between meals each of the two weeks i brought a little bit of disposable silverware and we kept the extras from the airline meal i bought cheap wooden spoons spatulas so that if we didn t have room to bring them back we would just leave them what i didn t bring that i should have so i ended up paying more because in israel i know where to buy it cheaper sponges for washing dishes and plastic boxes to use both as a mixing bowl and for storing leftovers plastic zip loc type bags could have been helpful we bought them locally i had bought two packs of sour candy that came in little plastic boxes and they got some use we ate most of the candy on our flights should have brought a tablecloth i ended up using a clean sheet as a tablecloth but i f...