hello april and passover

a long hiatus, some of it was spent in hawai'i. i returned to find myself in the thick of passover preparations. today, on the first day, passover-friendly dishes abounded at no-name today. top on my list: perfectly-cooked slices of flatiron steak flavoured with haroset -- or their version of it anyway, a relish of black mission figs, apricots, dates, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, and ginger. the vegetarian section yielded a salad of black-eyed peas with mozzarella and roasted zucchini, awash in olive oil and red onion slices and emanating a powerful scent of basil and garlic. concluding remarks by a dish of mango chunks in an unctuous cream composed of young coconut meat, dates, vanilla, and ginger juice.