{"id":7474,"date":"2013-07-23T20:25:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T01:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2015-07-27T20:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T01:49:52","slug":"omas-yahrzeit-or-too-humid-for-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/omas-yahrzeit-or-too-humid-for-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Oma’s yahrzeit, or, “too humid for pie”"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 22nd is my mother’s yahrzeit – this year it’s been 9 years. I lit a candle in the crystal candle holder <\/a>\u00a0my mom and I bought at the Art Fair on the Square because we thought it would look good for Opa’s yahrzeit candle (tho in this pic, I’m using one of Oma’s candle-go-round candles, not a yahrzeit candle, same as I did for her). An old friend was coming over for dinner. She brought a bottle of white wine – Oma would have approved – and I made a chicken salad<\/a>, with tahini lemon dressing & sugar snaps and red peppers, that was published in Gourmet<\/em> the summer that my mom died, that I had made for her at least once – before we came to the phase where all she wanted was vanilla pudding.\u00a0 Since we had a light supper – the chicken salad, summer squash casserole, and the wine – we could have pie afterward. Which was still good, but starting to get a little gooey. A bit humid for pie. We had the AC on, and a thunder storm rolled in, but we only noticed the lightning flashes, not the thunder booms. Oma would’ve approved.<\/p>\n