The Party's Over Shavuot 2018.

the holiday of Shavuot ended a couple of hours ago.  the grandkids slept over last night and just left.  I had them from 7:30 a.m. until 10:30 p.m.  I managed to get them to synagogue this morning to  hear the ten commandments.  we had an horrific heat wave.  I felt faint on Friday night and had to hold onto the kitchen counter for dear life.  my friend came over and I made fried chicken cutlets.  I had some leftover rice, kasha and beets and that is what we ate.  for lunch we had cold cuts sandwiches.

I was supposed to go to a friend's for lunch.  I woke up looking like a Cyclops and didn't feel any better than I looked.  I was beyond exhausted.  the kids were with me on Thursday afternoon and slept over.  I picked them up after work.  it was pretty warm but nothing like it was for the holiday.  we made no bake cheesecakes on Thursday.  I froze them.  they weren't too good but the kids enjoyed making them.  I kept them home from school on Friday.  I was in no mood to schlepp to town to pick them up in the heat.  we waited 40 minutes in the hot sun on Thursday for the school van.

I worked from 7:30 a.m. on Friday until 7:30 p.m. preparing the Shavuot meals.  I ended up making a lasagna, two types of prepared mini ravioli, cheese pancakes, a Greek salad and a spinach mushroom salad.  we had a French creamy goat cheese, lox, a raisin whole wheat challah, strawberry yogurt drink, many flavored Yoplait yogurts, chocolate puddings, cream cheese, salty butter and a fruit platter of grapes, plums, cherries and peaches.  we had a hybrid fruit which was a mix between an apple and a pear and we had a huge fresh papaya.  I think it was my first papaya.  we ended up putting it into the spinach salad.

and of course, I made a cheesecake.  I was afraid that there would be complaints because I used lemon pudding instead of the standard vanilla.  last year I used chocolate and it was left untouched.  the caramel pudding was, actually, liked.  the real winner of the evening was the parmesan cheese shaker bottle.  it went on the lasagna and the ravioli and even on the spinach salad.  the lasagna was a bit problematic.  the sauce was a bit watery and the cheeses didn't really melt.  I don't know what happened.  I baked it for over an hour.  my son thought I accidentally bought synthetic cheese.  I'm sure I didn't but, then again, I had my doubts.

I left it on  he electric platter all morning and it was finally cooked.  it tasted good the night before but it was definitely, not up to par.  this morning I got up at 6:30 a.m. and set the table before the grandkids woke up.  I made a new Greek salad.  I read online that, under no circumstances ,should an authentic Greek salad contain lettuce or onions.  in safed they, pretty much, shred the lettuce and mince the tomatoes and cucumbers and grate the cheese.  today I made chunky veggies and chunks of cheeses.

I also sliced up the smoked tuna and plated it.  it tasted like a bland lox.  I made another spinach salad but this time it was without mushrooms.  I used up the rest of the papaya and added the remainder of the creamy goat cheese and added some red onion.  I forgot that the daughter-in-law doesn't like goat cheese.   go know?  I made a new fruit platter.  I put the pancakes on the hotplate to warm them up.  I set everything up clearly in the fridge in case I was still at services wen the grown up kids came.

it was extremely hot this morning.  we got to services, just before they read the torah passages which included the ten commandments.  it was unbearable in the synagogue.  they didn't have the a.c on nor did they turn on any fans.  I left right after the commandments and prayed at home.  the kids were happy to get home and out of their clothes and back into their summer pajamas.  I think I took 3 cold showers today.  I placed a fan in every room but it was  still, pretty hot in my house.  I made sure that we had plenty of cold drinks.

I have to work tomorrow but the kids don't have school.  they will be brought to the yeshiva and stay with me until I finish  up.  we will then go to town and get them prizes for going to hear the ten commandments.  I quizzed them all day long on the commandments and on the megilla Ruth.   they earned points which will add up to shekels at the store. 

I saw myself in some selfies at the cast party and again in the video of the play. I really am fat.  I am so miserable.  I had yogurts and lasagna and ravioli and bread and butter and cheeses and tons of fruits but I didn't touch the cheesecake.  I have to get this weight off now.  I have never been this overweight.  I do not want to post any pix.