Whenever this holiday rolls around, the usual reaction from friends and family is this, “What are you going to make? How can you have a Seder without meat?”, and sometimes, “Um, thanks for the invite, but I’m busy.”

This year, I decided to look around on the web and see what great ideas were out there for this traditional holiday meal. My usual repertoire is ratatouille and quinoa, roasted root vegetables, and a spinach bake that I found on-line a few years ago.

So, thanks to http://www.kosherinthekitchen.com. I made the quinoa “meat”balls, and they were excellent, especially, as suggested, served over spaghetti squash. I’d completely forgotten about this vegetable alternative to pasta; my mom loved making it, and I now will add it to my list of standards.

I also made a spaghetti squash bake that I found on-line on joyofkosher.com, which was really good (yep, kind of went overboard on the spaghetti squash). And I made a simple salad of chopped fennel, fresh mandarin orange slices, and sliced avocado, tossed with a little bit of olive oil and vinegar.

Dessert was an apple/pear crumble, made just about the same way as I make it usually, subbing matzoh farfel for oats.

Happy holidays!