Personalize Your Sedar Place Setting

I customized my Passover place settings with matching Hagadda covers and napkin rings. At Shutterstock, I found printable images of matzo and pink rose borders to match my haviland limoges china. The images were put together in PhotoShop, personalizing the napkin rings with guest names, and the book cover with my family name, and in Hebrew "Haggada shel Pesach," which translates to Haggada for Passover.

I thought it would be convenient to have the symbolic foods at each place setting: charosets, moror (horseradish), egg, and karpas (green veggie) in salt water. I found some leaf shaped glass plates, that were divided into 3 sections for the first 3, and small ice cream dishes for the latter.

The table needs to have other items for the seder:
Wine for the kiddish (blessing over the wine)
Matzo in a cover
Elijah's cup
Pillows for relining
Water bowl and pitcher for hand washing
And of course...the sedar plate!

Here's a brief of what some of the symbolic foods represent at a Jewish Sedar

• Maror: Bitter herbs to symbolize the harshness of Egyptian slavery.
• Karpas: Green vegetable represents the flourishing of the Jewish people and the promise of Spring. The salt water symbolizes the tears shed by Jews in slavery
• Charoset: Mixture of apple, wine and nuts symbolizes the mortar that Jewish slaves used for laying bricks for the Pharaoh

Charoset recipe"

• 3 medium Gala or Fuji apples, peeled, cored, and finely diced
• 1 1/2 cups walnut halves, lightly toasted, cooled, and coarsely chopped
• 1/2 cup sweet red wine
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar