I had lots of spare time on Erev Shabbos/Erev-Erev Shavuos, so I cut a bunch of hadassim from my front yard and a bunch of rosemary from behind my house, and managed to actually decorate the house with lots of greenery in honor of Shavuos. It was fun.
I'm still a little confused about how little I had to cook. Granted, we only had Shabbos+One Day here, and we ate Shabbos lunch at the Ornas, but still. I'm cooled out that my food preparation was: baking one (1) cake, spicing one (1) salmon fillet, steaming one (1!) bag of broccoli, and making two (2) salads. That's it. Granted Husbinator made meatballs for Friday night and two types of sauce for Shavuos night, my freezer contributed challahs and cookies, and each of our guests brought a side dish, but still. I had to do very little, and that's what counts.
I was going to bake a cheese cake, but we found a 20₪ cheesecake in the store, and that's cheaper in both time and money than making one myself. Unfortunately, when we cut into it on yontiff, we discovered that said cheese cake was absolutely tasteless, so it's a good thing that Dikla sent BSM home with a cheese cake that actually tasted delicious.
The other disappointment involved the "bagels" I was so excited about a few days ago. Sure enough, they're just round bread with a hole in the middle. Blerg. Luckily, I had a hunch that would be the case, so I went back to the bakery before chag and bought myself a nice artisan baguette which was very nice with cream cheese and lox. And since Husbinator's ideal bagel is Thomas' Everything Bagels, he wasn't too disappointed. And poor Israeli BSM was just thrilled with the new type of bread. I shall have to teach him the proper Way of the Bagel before it's too late.
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