Tetzaveh / תצוה : SHMOT (EXODUS) Exodus 27:20-30:10 (link to the text on Sepharia)
To make a veggies and cream cheese Choshen, choose a variety of veggies you like. Because I was making it for this web site, I tried to stick with the colors of the actual jewels represented, though I could not figure out how to get a blue vegetable. Fruits would have been easier (though I don’t think blueberries are actually blue), but I was in a veggie mood.
So I chose a base of matza, and bought (or already had):
- cream cheese (it was multicolored cloth, so you could use hummus, sliced cheese, guacamole… whatever you want)
- multicolored carrots (more bang for your buck if you need several colors)
- mixed tiny tomatoes
- a red onion
- a green onion
- a few leaves of basil
- one black olive
- one red bell pepper (though a mini one would have been better).
- 4 O-shaped pieces of cereal (if you have a variety pack of mini peppers, I would just use rings of the yellow pepper instead)
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I cut the matzo in quarters as that made the proportions right for what I was doing.
Spread your topping (cream cheese in my case), add toppings that roughly approximate the colors in the chart.
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Add whatever you are using as “rings” on the corners.
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Learn, eat, and bench! Yum!