Festive Dishes

noun a sweet, dark-colored paste made of fruits and nuts, traditionally served during the Passover Seder

• During the Passover Seder, charoset is traditionally served as a symbol of the mortar used by the Israelites in Egypt.
• I love the sweet and nutty flavor of charoset at our family's Passover meal.
• Hey, can you pass me some of that charoset? It's so good!
• The mixture of apples, nuts, and wine in charoset represents the sweetness and bitterness of life.

noun a traditional Romanian dish consisting of cabbage leaves stuffed with a mixture of minced meat, rice, and spices

• Sarmale is a traditional Romanian dish made of cabbage leaves stuffed with a mix of rice and minced meat.
• I can't wait to dig into some sarmale at the family gathering this weekend.
• My grandma makes the best sarmale in town, hands down!
• The sarmale of memories from my childhood always bring a smile to my face.

noun a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, which is then stuffed into a deboned turkey

• The turducken is a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, which is then stuffed into a deboned turkey.
• I can't wait to try that turducken recipe for Thanksgiving dinner!
• Let's get our hands on some of that juicy turducken for the holiday feast.
• The project was like a turducken of tasks, with each layer more complex than the last.