Rant #2,114: Another Day

Happy Easter Monday.

I hope everyone had a good Easter and a good Passover ... and also a good April Fools Day.

Not to put the latter with the formerly named holidays, but yes, it was April Fools Day yesterday.

But I guess today is April Fool's Day Monday, because in my neck of the woods, even though it is in the 40s outside, it is scheduled to snow.

We are supposed to get three or four inches of mushy snow by the end of it late this morning, and then, with the temperatures pointed upward, this mess should leave us about as quickly as it hit us.

In the middle of all of this is 2018 opening day at Yankee Stadium, where the Bronx Bombers play the Tampa Ray Rays, who used to have the word "Devil" in their name, and if the game is impacted by snow, well you just know the devil may be at work here.

Yes, it's just another day in the neighborhood today.

But the matzoh is soooooooooo good.

You have not lived until you have matzoh smeared with Temp Tee Cream Cheese.

No, sorry, Philadephia Cream Cheese just won't do on matzoh during Passover, and I don't think it is Kosher for Passover like Temp Tee is.

Anyway, you have matazoh and Temp Tee Cream Cheese for breakfast on Passover mornings, and you really are in breakfast heaven.

It just goes so good with a glass of milk.

I will probably mix it up with white fish salad spread--which I also found in a Kosher for Passover version this weekend--which is almost equally as good as having Temp Tee cream cheese on matzoh, but it still cannot beat Temp Tee.

Temp Tee is made by Breakstone--famous for its cottage cheese--and it is one of those uniquely New York food items that is so akin to the population here, one of the few foods that has pretty much kept its regional status although it is known probably throughout the country.

The one similar food that I can think of off the top of my head is Wise Potato Chips, also akin to this area, but widely known outside of it.

Temp Tee just has the right smoothness to put on a piece of matzoh, as it is whipped cream cheese. Philadephia also has a whipped cream cheese, but while it is spreadable on a piece of matzoh, it is not as light and creamy as Temp Tee is.

And when Passover is over, or you are not of the Jewish persuasion, get a real, bagel store bagel and spread it on your bagel--there is nothing better.

In the old days, we would spread Temp Tee on our matzoh and add some salt to it, but I haven't done that in decades. It isn't healthy and I don't use salt for anything nowadays, although I am sure many people still do this.

That was then, this is now, and all I need is matzoh and Temp Tee cream cheese to get me going during Passover mornings.

What do I eat for lunch during Passover?

We will most probably talk about that during the week in another Rant.

It is something that I have eaten for lunch during Passover for decades, and something I will eat all of this week, as Passover stretches out.

Speak to you again tomorrow, right after breakfast.