Passover Traditions and Celebrating Family

There's a lot of fun singing traditional songs at Passover that bring a sense of community and tradition to the holiday. Having their own unique traditions that they bring to the holidays makes everything feel special and customized, making it less like a rigid event. In our show "We Were the Lucky Ones," we drew inspiration from our own experiences and family traditions to create a beautiful Seder table.

To elevate our Passover celebration, we used napkin rings made of herbs. These simple yet elegant decorations added a touch of elegance to our table setting. We also used linen napkins, which are perfect for special occasions like Passover. Our mother in the show played by Robin Wer sang her way through the dinner, and her love for family was palpable as she reflected on how even mundane objects like silverware could become lifelines.

The Seder table was set with a beautiful arrangement of food, including brisket, which was truly divine. The sweet potatoes were another highlight of the meal, and we couldn't get enough of them. Our conversation turned to the importance of Passover in our lives, and how it brought us closer together as a family. We discussed the significance of the show being based on a true story, and how that responsibility added an extra layer of authenticity to our project.

We were the Lucky Ones is a heartwarming story about a Jewish family's struggle during World War II. The show's creators drew heavily from their own experiences and those of other families who suffered during this time. This led to a unique understanding of the importance of family and love, which is at the center of our show.

For one of our actors, working on this project brought back memories of her own family traditions and experiences. She felt a sense of responsibility as an actor to do justice to the true story being told on screen. This added an extra layer of authenticity to their performances.

Our conversation turned to our favorite parts of the meal, with some of us swooning over the brisket. We realized that there's something special about this dish that warms our souls and brings back memories of traditional Jewish cuisine.

Finally, we were treated to a delicious dessert course, which was a sweet way to cap off an already wonderful meal. We reflected on how grateful we are for the opportunity to share this experience with each other and with our audience. As we raised our glasses in a toast, we knew that this Passover celebration would be one to remember.

Passover is a time-honored holiday that brings people together and celebrates family love and tradition. In our show "We Were the Lucky Ones," we drew inspiration from real-life stories to create a beautiful Seder table experience. From napkin rings made of herbs to delicious traditional dishes like brisket, every detail added to the magic of this special night. As we shared in conversation, Passover is not just about the food or the traditions – it's about the love and connection that brings us together as families.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is really good I could sit here I love it all and just eat this we need cereal seriously this is great hi I'm Logan lurman and I'm Joey King and today we are going to be celebrating Passover with the help of the wonderful Chef gab Kennedy and designer Rebecca Len Passover is a huge part of our show we were the lucky ones so gave and Rebecca are going to show us how to put on a great Passover seder youall want to come into the kitchen we'll get started yes all right let's do it we are going to make a Passover feast we're going to start by brazing a brisket so one of the things that I need is these shallots which are going to be some of the aromatics for our bra to just be cut in half and then I'm going to need some help seasoning this salt I would recommend seasoning from high up okay so you get like an even distribution of salt onto the meat what were holidays like for you both in the in the kitchen my mom makes an amazing brisket but that's kind of like her thing that she makes I mean it was always about the food and always about like Gathering and that was the most important part so my brother's the chef of the family I just try to hang out and have fun all right so now we're going to throw the brisket in I always like to sear fat side down I like to say there's three key steps for any bra the first is to to develop flavor through a sear then we have this really flavorful liquid in which will'll cook the meat and the last step low and slow so 275 for you know maybe 5 hours really until it's done you can just like low and slow we got all day we're we're we're going to flip we're going to flip Gabe looks Gabe I did nothing gab I did nothing Logan who knew you could cook just a little Sul and time outside of your mom's brisket your aunt's brisket what is another favorite family food my grandma made uh fried matah a lot growing up and I love it and we would always Ed grape jelly with it and it was so good my favorite family food is klock which is a a dumpling like a Jewish dumpling we have it every year in rashishana and uh it's the way to bring in the New Year Jews have dumplings we have crep loock and it's wonderful bring it on so next step we're going to add in our aromatic so if you want to go in with the uh carrots yeah throw it in and then we're going to go onions here the show I want just look like I'm helping um so in goes the celery add in that tomato paste the paprika add in the chili powder that tomato ketchup dish a little bit of that in there come on open up I want to try this baby yeah exactly perfecty so now we're building the flavorful right good okay I'm going toest it inest bad boy in oh yeah you yes St get that back oh boy beautiful sweet all right now we're going to kind of just try to get it down to the bottom of the pot and then if you would like to pour some of this in we've got our Rosemary oh yeah the sus beautiful that's going to look so awesome on top and then we're going to tuck these guys in tuck it in and into the oven we go all right so complete up next good fil the fish mball soup ready go so you're going to go in with the white fish you wouldn't mind starting to form these Moz balls so I'll put a little oil on my hand wonderful um get it nice and you know nice Circle balls sphere I should say and we'll drop it into the stock grating some nut Meg in with the microplane okay right wow and voila here we go we have our mixture and what we're going to do is we're going to make a quinel and poach The Gila fish and now we just sort of let this poach in the liquid and these are beautiful aren't they gorgeous I will drop these in can I drop one yeah yeah you should drop them all all right give me the skinny give me a favorite memory or moment of we were the lucky ones I adored uh spending time with my friend Joey over here we were lucky enough to have apartments in the same building like one floor away from each other so we're always hanging out which was really nice please come up here and try this it's very difficult I need your help okay I don't know how I don't know how to do it help me Joey so yeah these are sort of pretty good I got to say I'm excited how it freaking do this we're also going to make our our horos set so we have the bowl for you sir for you matah balls a simmering this goes right in our Sedar plate harosa is one of the most interesting dishes of sort of the like the Jewish diaspora every place has a different representation people add dried fruit other people like add different spices here why don't why don't you guys finish this okay and then you want is so great because really the best vehicle for shoving things in your mouth this is really good I could sit here I love it all and just eat this need cereal day Ser this is great I suppose what we should do is just kind of make make the sand oh yeah right let's get into it this bad boy let's make rosed a thing okay for everyone I'm going to finish a few things up in the kitchen you guys will set the table with Rebecca and then we'll yes Che thank you Chef thank you Chef thank you thank you all right we are coming over to the table now and we are going to be setting it great these are beautiful plates I know I love these plates I think they're so organic looking we have the four questions we have um these hagadas you're welcome to place one at every setting this is much nicer than my family I know these are these are so beautiful my families are a bit musty and Dusty I will say after all these years this has some pages to it we children's version at home so we can get through it in like five minutes we have these tambourines which in my family we always use tambourines at Passover there's a lot of fun singing traditional has their Traditions too that they bring to the holidays that sweet that that's yours that sounds really fun it's nice to like customize a little bit cuz it makes everything feel a little less like rigid I did a few things here to make this a little more elevated and special because it is a holiday after all but these are things that apply to any holiday any occasion that you can do so first of all I used napkin rings which is such a simple thing I love napkin rings yeah I love them so and these you said are are all all herbs I just love this set and then of course Place cards such a small thing I also love the linen napkins I think there's a time and a place for linen napkins so true and they always make a table look so much this is so pretty like it's really beautiful in our show in the first episode you know obviously our table set and everything but the silverware becomes such a huge element for uh us to survive our mother in the show played by Robin wer she actually sews some of the silverware into like the Linings of the coats and then there's a point in the show in which my character uses a spoon um in a very dire situation and she has this moment willing like reflects like this is such a mundane household item and now it's my lifeline that's that's beautiful table is gorgeous food's ready shall we grab it let's do it this W scared beautiful you have spoiled us and I'm going to Sauce it sauce it sauce it up sauce oh I want a video of that I this was so much fun I think you're pretty cool I think you're awesome thanks for walking us through how to make a beautiful seder like this should we just get in yeah we I know you're a gila fish guy I am pass that over I feel like I'm the only one who's going is the bestall I've ever had is a good M ball oh my go you want a hit a brisket I want I have a hit a you want h a brisket yeah I do I do want AIS amazing oh my God those sweet potatoes this sparus is silly silly it's so good thank you guys we have four more questions that we would like to ask the two of you today so how is Passover important in we were the lucky ones we opened the whole show uh with this very important Passover dinner and we're really trying to get back to that dinner table together and really share that time again it's like the event that the family's like longing to revisit in our show beautiful working on a project like this did it make you relish and appreciate the time with your family we were so far away from our families making a show that's so much about family and family love I love my family I'm very close with them so uh there was a little bit of a parallel between what was going on with my character and what was going on in real life what is the significance of the show being based on a true story a true you know one family's true story having something that's based on a true story always feels there's like a certain amount of you know responsibility that comes with it and you want to really do it well and you want to it just hits differently it hits different it's such a special thing as an actor to be able to feel that immense responsibility um I love feeling that like I love feeling a little scared when I doing a project and having things be based on a true story it's a little scary because you just you want to get it right you know in the creation of we were the lucky ones now that it's done what is one thing that you are the most excited to share with people oh I'm just it it brings me such joy to see their family story being immortalized in television and this format yeah is um is a really special feeling yeah I think they I really hope they watch it I hope they appreciate it like everything you're saying and I hope it kind of just hits home with the importance of family I guess what's your favorite thing on the table the brisket the brisket the brisket blowing my mind the brisket was just so satisfying there's something about it that just like warms your soul you know it's like oh my God such like Jewish soul food this is insane this is why we prepared it I'm not going to say that it's better than my mom's cuz never it could it can't be I will never say that it can't be it last question in addition to that are you ready for dessert yes do you have room for dessert I have room for sure yay an amazing meal friends who are wonderful and cheers too we were the lucky ones coming out thanks for helping us celebrate that thank you cheersthis is really good I could sit here I love it all and just eat this we need cereal seriously this is great hi I'm Logan lurman and I'm Joey King and today we are going to be celebrating Passover with the help of the wonderful Chef gab Kennedy and designer Rebecca Len Passover is a huge part of our show we were the lucky ones so gave and Rebecca are going to show us how to put on a great Passover seder youall want to come into the kitchen we'll get started yes all right let's do it we are going to make a Passover feast we're going to start by brazing a brisket so one of the things that I need is these shallots which are going to be some of the aromatics for our bra to just be cut in half and then I'm going to need some help seasoning this salt I would recommend seasoning from high up okay so you get like an even distribution of salt onto the meat what were holidays like for you both in the in the kitchen my mom makes an amazing brisket but that's kind of like her thing that she makes I mean it was always about the food and always about like Gathering and that was the most important part so my brother's the chef of the family I just try to hang out and have fun all right so now we're going to throw the brisket in I always like to sear fat side down I like to say there's three key steps for any bra the first is to to develop flavor through a sear then we have this really flavorful liquid in which will'll cook the meat and the last step low and slow so 275 for you know maybe 5 hours really until it's done you can just like low and slow we got all day we're we're we're going to flip we're going to flip Gabe looks Gabe I did nothing gab I did nothing Logan who knew you could cook just a little Sul and time outside of your mom's brisket your aunt's brisket what is another favorite family food my grandma made uh fried matah a lot growing up and I love it and we would always Ed grape jelly with it and it was so good my favorite family food is klock which is a a dumpling like a Jewish dumpling we have it every year in rashishana and uh it's the way to bring in the New Year Jews have dumplings we have crep loock and it's wonderful bring it on so next step we're going to add in our aromatic so if you want to go in with the uh carrots yeah throw it in and then we're going to go onions here the show I want just look like I'm helping um so in goes the celery add in that tomato paste the paprika add in the chili powder that tomato ketchup dish a little bit of that in there come on open up I want to try this baby yeah exactly perfecty so now we're building the flavorful right good okay I'm going toest it inest bad boy in oh yeah you yes St get that back oh boy beautiful sweet all right now we're going to kind of just try to get it down to the bottom of the pot and then if you would like to pour some of this in we've got our Rosemary oh yeah the sus beautiful that's going to look so awesome on top and then we're going to tuck these guys in tuck it in and into the oven we go all right so complete up next good fil the fish mball soup ready go so you're going to go in with the white fish you wouldn't mind starting to form these Moz balls so I'll put a little oil on my hand wonderful um get it nice and you know nice Circle balls sphere I should say and we'll drop it into the stock grating some nut Meg in with the microplane okay right wow and voila here we go we have our mixture and what we're going to do is we're going to make a quinel and poach The Gila fish and now we just sort of let this poach in the liquid and these are beautiful aren't they gorgeous I will drop these in can I drop one yeah yeah you should drop them all all right give me the skinny give me a favorite memory or moment of we were the lucky ones I adored uh spending time with my friend Joey over here we were lucky enough to have apartments in the same building like one floor away from each other so we're always hanging out which was really nice please come up here and try this it's very difficult I need your help okay I don't know how I don't know how to do it help me Joey so yeah these are sort of pretty good I got to say I'm excited how it freaking do this we're also going to make our our horos set so we have the bowl for you sir for you matah balls a simmering this goes right in our Sedar plate harosa is one of the most interesting dishes of sort of the like the Jewish diaspora every place has a different representation people add dried fruit other people like add different spices here why don't why don't you guys finish this okay and then you want is so great because really the best vehicle for shoving things in your mouth this is really good I could sit here I love it all and just eat this need cereal day Ser this is great I suppose what we should do is just kind of make make the sand oh yeah right let's get into it this bad boy let's make rosed a thing okay for everyone I'm going to finish a few things up in the kitchen you guys will set the table with Rebecca and then we'll yes Che thank you Chef thank you Chef thank you thank you all right we are coming over to the table now and we are going to be setting it great these are beautiful plates I know I love these plates I think they're so organic looking we have the four questions we have um these hagadas you're welcome to place one at every setting this is much nicer than my family I know these are these are so beautiful my families are a bit musty and Dusty I will say after all these years this has some pages to it we children's version at home so we can get through it in like five minutes we have these tambourines which in my family we always use tambourines at Passover there's a lot of fun singing traditional has their Traditions too that they bring to the holidays that sweet that that's yours that sounds really fun it's nice to like customize a little bit cuz it makes everything feel a little less like rigid I did a few things here to make this a little more elevated and special because it is a holiday after all but these are things that apply to any holiday any occasion that you can do so first of all I used napkin rings which is such a simple thing I love napkin rings yeah I love them so and these you said are are all all herbs I just love this set and then of course Place cards such a small thing I also love the linen napkins I think there's a time and a place for linen napkins so true and they always make a table look so much this is so pretty like it's really beautiful in our show in the first episode you know obviously our table set and everything but the silverware becomes such a huge element for uh us to survive our mother in the show played by Robin wer she actually sews some of the silverware into like the Linings of the coats and then there's a point in the show in which my character uses a spoon um in a very dire situation and she has this moment willing like reflects like this is such a mundane household item and now it's my lifeline that's that's beautiful table is gorgeous food's ready shall we grab it let's do it this W scared beautiful you have spoiled us and I'm going to Sauce it sauce it sauce it up sauce oh I want a video of that I this was so much fun I think you're pretty cool I think you're awesome thanks for walking us through how to make a beautiful seder like this should we just get in yeah we I know you're a gila fish guy I am pass that over I feel like I'm the only one who's going is the bestall I've ever had is a good M ball oh my go you want a hit a brisket I want I have a hit a you want h a brisket yeah I do I do want AIS amazing oh my God those sweet potatoes this sparus is silly silly it's so good thank you guys we have four more questions that we would like to ask the two of you today so how is Passover important in we were the lucky ones we opened the whole show uh with this very important Passover dinner and we're really trying to get back to that dinner table together and really share that time again it's like the event that the family's like longing to revisit in our show beautiful working on a project like this did it make you relish and appreciate the time with your family we were so far away from our families making a show that's so much about family and family love I love my family I'm very close with them so uh there was a little bit of a parallel between what was going on with my character and what was going on in real life what is the significance of the show being based on a true story a true you know one family's true story having something that's based on a true story always feels there's like a certain amount of you know responsibility that comes with it and you want to really do it well and you want to it just hits differently it hits different it's such a special thing as an actor to be able to feel that immense responsibility um I love feeling that like I love feeling a little scared when I doing a project and having things be based on a true story it's a little scary because you just you want to get it right you know in the creation of we were the lucky ones now that it's done what is one thing that you are the most excited to share with people oh I'm just it it brings me such joy to see their family story being immortalized in television and this format yeah is um is a really special feeling yeah I think they I really hope they watch it I hope they appreciate it like everything you're saying and I hope it kind of just hits home with the importance of family I guess what's your favorite thing on the table the brisket the brisket the brisket blowing my mind the brisket was just so satisfying there's something about it that just like warms your soul you know it's like oh my God such like Jewish soul food this is insane this is why we prepared it I'm not going to say that it's better than my mom's cuz never it could it can't be I will never say that it can't be it last question in addition to that are you ready for dessert yes do you have room for dessert I have room for sure yay an amazing meal friends who are wonderful and cheers too we were the lucky ones coming out thanks for helping us celebrate that thank you cheers\n"