Palm Sunday

L

LoLs

New member
Anybody else making a special meal for Palm Sunday? This is the
(fairly-meager) brunch I'm planning:


Turkish Eggs[1]

Dukkah[2] with Flatbread

Clementine-Stuffed Dates

Turkish Coffee


Is there anything which needs to be added to that menu? I can't be *too*
ambitious because I will have been up all the previous night.

Bob
[1] Message-ID:
[2] Message-ID:
 
In article ,
Bob Terwilliger wrote:

I made savory palmiers for the reception when our monthly "Second Sunday"
evensong/recital was on Palm Sunday. Easy peasy - get some frozen puff
pastry, thaw/roll it out, spread with grated cheese or something about the
consistency of tapenade, form, bake.

(Ever since, we do "puff pastry things", although we usually roll it up in
a circle instead of the palm shape. Always a hit.)

You could do sweet ones too.

You've got dates in your menu, though, so it's good.

Charlotte
--
 
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:57:33 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
wrote:


We're going to a surprise birthday party on the 17th, so it will be a
special meal but it won't be focused on Palm Sunday.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
In article ,
"Bob Terwilliger" wrote:

(menu snipped)

I am not. A special menu for Palm Sunday is off my radar. Is that a
family custom? Easter's another story. :-)
--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
 
In article ,
Melba's Jammin' wrote:


Palm Sunday is still part of Lent and/or Holy Week (if you are
Eastern Rite), which is still part of a "fast." There aren't many
celebratory foods for it.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/
 
Ran?e wrote:


The menu I posted was meat-free, though it doesn't meet the Orthodox fasting
rules because of the oil used. I'm not sure exactly what your religious
dietary constraints are.

Palm Sunday itself is a celebration of sorts. From Wikipedia:

"Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that always falls on the Sunday
before Easter Sunday. The feast commemorates Jesus' Triumphal entry into
Jerusalem an event mentioned by all four Canonical Gospels (Mark 11:1-11,
Matthew 21:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, and John 12:12-19): the triumphant entry of
Jesus into Jerusalem in the days before his Passion."

"In the Orthodox Church Palm Sunday is often called the "Entry of the Lord
into Jerusalem", it is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the liturgical
year"

Bob
 
"Bob Terwilliger" news:4da7a60a$0$31716
[email protected]: in rec.food.cooking


Hi Bob, I've never had Turkish eggs. I'm gonna have to Google them. I
don't plan anything special for Palm Sunday. For Easter I don't do
anything special either. I'll probably do a brisket ;)

Michael
 
In article ,
Bob Terwilliger wrote:

Well, in the Western tradition, Sundays aren't "officially" part of the
Forty Days of Lent, because they are Feasts of the Resurrection.

With that being said, I am not in a very celebratory mood after the
reading of the Passion Gospel. (The service that starts out with
celebratory palm-waving takes a turn for the somber mid-way; we
concatenate "Palm Sunday" and "Passion Sunday".)

Back to food: The palmiers were for a community event (and since I used
Pep Farm puff pastry, the non-cheese containing ones were vegan).

I am, however, planning to start my Easter baking on Sunday afternoon with
the gluten-free version of Molly Wizenberg (Orangette)'s banana bread. It
will go in the freezer. I might also get around to making mini-quiches
with puff pastry "crusts" for the freezer with my Musgovian spinach.

Charlotte
--
 
In article ,
[email protected] (Charlotte L. Blackmer) wrote:


Yes, and in the Orthodox Tradition, that means that one may cook with
fish and wine. They are the Marines of Christianity. For the West, it
begins with the Procession of the Palms and ends with the Passion Gospel
narrative of the crowd crying to "Crucify Him!" It's not as celebratory
as you seem to think. A feast day in Church parlance means that it is a
remembrance of a particular person or event that is noted particularly
on the Church Calendar. Martyrdoms are also feast days. The Feast of
the Holy Innocents, in which we remember the slaughter of the babies of
Jerusalem is also a feast day, but we don't have cakes and parties.

It wasn't so much that the meal didn't work for the fast, it depends
on the restrictions one follows, but that it isn't a day associated with
actual feasting.


True, yet it still seems weird to have a big hoopla on a Sunday,
especially, as you mentioned, after the reading of the Passion.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/
 
Bob Terwilliger wrote:


Actually, in Orthodox fasting rules, the oil is not specified; it is
either allowed or not. On Palm Sunday, oil is allowed, just as it is
allowed on all Saturdays and Sundays of Great Lent/Fast.

[snip]

Palm Sunday is still a part of Great Lent/Fast, with the rules just
being eased a bit, with fish (and, by extension, roe/caviar) being
allowed. That is how it differs from the other Saturdays and Sundays of
Great Lent. Both oil and wine are allowed on all Saturdays and Sundays
of Great Lent.

Victor
 
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:39:15 -0700, sf wrote:


So far, I have lemon bars and asparagus for Easter. Now, I'd be happy
as a clam with just that, but I suspect my husband will want some meat
and potatoes as well. I just can't decide what. If I could count on
the weather being nice, I would like to make Peter Aitken's Grilled
Lamb.
Janet US
 
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:29:16 -0600, Janet Bostwick
wrote:


So far you have a perfect menu to fit some lamb in, go for it Janet!

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
Charlotte wrote:


Regardless of what preceded, could simply gathering around the table with
friends and family be sufficient to lift your mood? That's how it usually
works with me.



I thank you for that suggestion, but I probably won't make them this year.
There will be plenty of food for Lin and me, and I'll probably be heading to
bed right after brunch.



Those Turkish eggs use spinach. Just sayin'.

Bob
 
In article ,
"Bob Terwilliger" wrote:


Well, my wedding anniversary is next Saturday. Plan away ? cooking it
and serving it would be even better. :-)

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
 
Back
Top