Happy Holidays

Being the good Jewish girl that I am (ha ha ha), I thought I should note that today is Purim. As with a few other Jewish holidays, Purim is a celebration with somber roots. Noted in "A Gentile's Guide to the Jewish Holidays", Purim is a partying holiday celebrating the rescue of the Jews from a Hitler-like figure, Haman, bent on genocide. It's also generally considered to be a pretty minor holiday. It was never celebrated in any real fashion in my family but the one thing that I do remember were the hamentashen. Not too long ago, they mostly only came in weird flavors like apricot, prune and poppy seed. Of course, now you can get pretty much any flavor...my favorite being raspberry. Looking for various links about Purim & its delicious dessert, it occurred to me that the images looked less like the hat they're supposed to resemble and more like, well...something else. Maybe that's just me.
In any case, Happy Purim!

And for those of you who didn't know, today is another kind of holiday as well.