ALKA SELTZER, ANYONE?

OY, am I stuffed! For lack of better terminology, (and despite the reason of the feast!), I ate like the proverbial pig! It is almost 12:45 am, and I wouldn't dare try and lay down to sleep while still this full. I had way too much chopped liver. Should I ever use the phrase "what am I, chopped liver?" the answer may indeed be YES. My cousin Sharon makes THE BEST C.L in the universe, not that I have tasted all the C.L in the universe, but hers is awesome. She couldn't find shmaltz anywhere this year, so my other cousin (her sister) made her own. I think the secret was in the shmaltz. Of course I had gefilte fish and the red horseradish, since I talk tough but am really a wimp! Then there was the matzo ball soup with kreplach. I like to drink all my soup first and eat then eat the matzoh ball and kreplach last. (Did you ever fry the left overs? Try it sometime - yummo) If you say I am weird, it would not be anything I haven't heard before! And there was brisket, chicken, stuffed cabbage, mashed taters and farfel. I was happier then a pig in slop! (why all the pig references? Certainly not kosher and probably inappropriate when discussing Jewish holiday topics!)There was the essential jello! In my family it is the 11th commandment - Thou shall not have a family dinner without jello. We also had homemade dill pickles and pickled tomatoes, olives, veggie ecrudites, challah and honey. Dessert was birthday cake in honor of my cousin Joanne's 75th birthday! Last year, I offered to bring a cake. I work in an area that has a very small Jewish population. I stopped at the grocery store and asked if they could decorate a cake while I waited. "Of course", they replied. So I asked them to write Happy New Year on the cake and they thought I needed to be carted off by the men in white coats!
So that is my recap of night one. If I can fit into anything tomorrow, I shall attempt night 2! Maybe I will stop at the C.L and soup and beg for a doggie bag (or in my case a piggy bag!!).
Until next time...goodnight!