LEAVEN HEAVEN

Ahhh - now that Passover is over, we can return to stuffing our faces with the Usual Crap.

Tonight, that meant excellent Tex-Mex at Pappasito’s, part of the venerable Pappas organization of Food Emporia. Houstonians are well familiar with Pappas restaurants of all stripes, and there are even a few outposts here in the greater Atlanta area.

Now, She Who Must Be Obeyed and I are enjoying that satisfying Terminal Bloat feeling.

All y’all non-Jews out there don’t know how good you have it. Try going without any kind of wheat, oats, barley, rye, or spelt-derived products for a week. (OK, I know spelt ain’t gonna be much of an issue for most of us.) But there’s also corn, rice, and legumes. Ever try going without corn for a week? Corn syrup and corn starch are in almost every processed food.

And matzoh, the Bread of Affliction: let’s just say that the affliction it causes is a digestive one. One week of matzoh - and nothing but, when it comes to breadstuffs - is plenty.

But all that is over with for fifty-one weeks. Normalcy: it’s what’s for dinner!