So G-d and Moses walk into the Tent of Meeting, and G-d says, "I'm hungry. Go get some fine flour, really good olive oil, and frankincense and whip us up some grub." And Moses says, "Where am I going to get frankincense this time of day?" And G-d says...
OK. Not really.
But in this week's Torah Portion, Vayikra, G-d does explain to Moses how to prepare several animal and meal offerings including a sin offering, a guilt offering, and a peace offering. So, riffing on those themes last month, we came up with our "recipe" for this month. (For an explanation of Yachad and our "Food For Thought" program, see the blog post from Feb. 23, 2012.)
We came up with "Moshe's Supreme Sacrificial Dessert Pizza."
Chef Anthony Folisi in our Dietary Department created our pizzas using a sweet cookie dough crust. The "sin" pizza has chocolate and whipped cream, the "guilt" pizza has candy and nuts, and the "peace" pizza is an apple pie pizza. (All ingredients are parve.)
And we ate them.
Then we talked about next month. But, since the Torah portions for next month deal with things like impurity, blood, and leprosy, we decided not to base recipes on them.
The night that we meet in April is the night before Yom Haatzmaut, Israel's Independence Day. So, we are basing our recipes Israel. Not Israeli food, necessarily, but foods based on images that we looked at having to do with Israel - the flag, the Wall, the desert, the beach, the Dead Sea, and so on. I don't actually know what we've come up with yet, but I'll let you know next month.
We also had some special visitors. The baby belongs to the woman sitting in the back on the left. She's the Assistant Director of Cleveland Yachad.
And then, of course, Breezy the wonder dog. Breezy, it was announced, is pregnant and this will be her last Yachad meeting until September. Mazel Tov, Breezy!
