Alwayswriteagain: The Desert Vixen – and Her Fox!

Alwayswriteagain: The Desert Vixen – and Her Fox!: As the arguments about the prosecution of British Armed Forces’ veterans for alleged war crimes in Northern Ireland and the Middle Eas...

Alwayswriteagain: Stunned, Stuck, Sliced: Is Animal Welfare Mere KIi...

Alwayswriteagain: Stunned, Stuck, Sliced: Is Animal Welfare Mere KIi...: Aleph Farms, an Israeli food-technology company, claims to have cultured slaughter-free meat in space . Great news for animal welfa...

Alwayswriteagain: Jewish Life? Apparently Not!

Alwayswriteagain: Jewish Life? Apparently Not!: I began reading ** Appearances: A Novel hoping that the author’s intent is satire. Alas, no! This is a po-faced account of a self-c...

Alwayswriteagain: A Wandering Spirit Laid to Rest

Alwayswriteagain: A Wandering Spirit Laid to Rest: As many Israelis were picking over the detritus discarded on the latest national election battlefield, a group of us paid homage to a...

Alwayswriteagain: Measure for Measure – and Us,Too!

Alwayswriteagain: Measure for Measure – and Us,Too!: In an Israel where one political party yearns to turn the state into a theocracy, another brazenly loathes homosexuals and innumerable pu...

Alwayswriteagain: Europe’s Mental Health Chiefs Have an Israel Rethi...

Alwayswriteagain: Europe’s Mental Health Chiefs Have an Israel Rethi...: It seems that ENMESH, the European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation , may reverse a recent decision not to hold a planned conf...

Alwayswriteagain: Between a Barrel and a Hard Place!

Alwayswriteagain: Between a Barrel and a Hard Place!: Meg Shelton - the ‘Fylde Hag’ – was crushed to death between a barrel and a wall and then buried as a witch. But this was not good...

Alwayswriteagain: Loveless and Lonesome Among the Fiddlers on the Ro...

Alwayswriteagain: Loveless and Lonesome Among the Fiddlers on the Ro...: It is hard enough for any grandchild to edit and publish a brutally frank memoir by a cherished forebear. But it must have bee...

Alwayswriteagain: Galilee Songs at Sunset

Alwayswriteagain: Galilee Songs at Sunset: A high summer, Sabbath eve, open-air concert in the amphitheatre at Amirim, Galilee - with a view of Lake Kinneret - the Sea of Galilee as ...

Alwayswriteagain: Why Notts. Prof Sent Israel to Coventry

Alwayswriteagain: Why Notts. Prof Sent Israel to Coventry: It comes to a pretty pass when a respected British professor of “mental health recovery and social inclusion” fronts the apparent deliber...

Alwayswriteagain: The Stuff of Legend!

Alwayswriteagain: The Stuff of Legend!: A burst of nostalgic interest on social media in an old-fashioned sweet treat named ‘stuffed monkey’ has had me looking at the life and wor...

Alwayswriteagain: The Making of ‘Manchester House’

Alwayswriteagain: The Making of ‘Manchester House’: On Sunday 14 June 1964, Alderman Abraham Moss , among the greatest of the grand panjandrums of mid-20 th century civic and Anglo-Jewish a...

Alwayswriteagain: Boris, the Camberwell Beauty

Alwayswriteagain: Boris, the Camberwell Beauty: South London lepidopterists on a nocturnal field-trip have discovered a sub-genus of the Camberwell Beauty . The ‘ Boris ’, s...

Alwayswriteagain: The Arithmetic of Autism

Alwayswriteagain: The Arithmetic of Autism: The story of the autistic high priestess of global climate protest marries two of the tin gods of our age. But where would Swedish teen...

Alwayswriteagain: The Long and Short of Eternity

Alwayswriteagain: The Long and Short of Eternity: Longevity: Should We Prolong Human Life by 30 Years? is, as its clumsy title implies, a novel that falls between two stools. Do...

Alwayswriteagain: Pallywood Terror, Racket and Corruption

Alwayswriteagain: Pallywood Terror, Racket and Corruption: “What is the source of the abject poverty, misery and hopelessness in Gaza and the PA-ruled territories? Is Israel to blame? Or is there mo...

Alwayswriteagain: "Boom Bang-A-Bang" Returns!

Alwayswriteagain: "Boom Bang-A-Bang" Returns!: EXCLUSIVE Exactly 50 years since its first release, the  Eurovision Song Contest winner, Boom Bang-A-Bang is set to be the favou...

Alwayswriteagain: Warren Lee –a Writer’s Tribute

Alwayswriteagain: Warren Lee –a Writer’s Tribute: As the vibrant but small Anglo community of Karmiel, Galilee continues to shrink with the passing of many senior members, I want t...

Mary Berry, Queen of ... Seder!

I bet even Britain’s ’Mary, Queen of Cakes’ will be surprised to learn she’s become the star attraction of Jewish social media threads during the current 2019 Passover week.

This time, though, it’s not because of a no-fail cake recipe, but because of a non-dairy vegetable lasagne that is suitable year-round for a kosher diet and that I altered to make it appropriate for the traditional ‘seder’ dinner by substituting pasta strips with matza sheets. I softened these slightly without soaking them by passing them through running cold tap water before placing them on the dish.

Any readers here interested in having a go, either with pasta or matza. wil find the original recipe in the vegetarian section of this whopping cookey encyclopedia - always a pleasure to use.

Mary Berry’s Complete Cookbook is available from Amazon on Kindle and in hardback.

© Natalie Wood (22 April 2019)

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Seaside Pastiche

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Seaside Pastiche: This piece was prompted by a multi-site visit to the northern Israeli coastal resort of Nahariya arranged by the Nefesh B’Nefesh immigration...