If you don't grow up Jewish or in a Jewish neighborhood, I'm not sure how you'd necessarily know these things. I mean, I didn't learn anything about, say, Iranian traditions until very recently. I didn't meet any Iranians until college.
Latkes! I have slightly different proportions (I use more flour / motza meal) and have to grate by hand (and that does indeed suck) but they're so worth it. I love 'em. I just make the amount that uses one egg for the two of us.
I had latkes, fish, and doughnuts for dinner last night. :-)
When I was working in Germany, I used to buy them in the street as Kartoffelpuffer (mit Apfelmuss). Followed by crepes suzette: oh yes!
I had latkes, fish, and doughnuts for dinner last night.
And that, my friends, is the proper way to celebrate Hannukah.
I made latkas last week for a gathering of friends, but I've actually fried very little this year--my wife (the Christian half of my mixed marriage) made six batches of Christmas cookies, so I've been trying to maximize the amount of nutrition in our actual meals.
Since I have to grate by hand (which I really hate) I don't often make latkes either. But I love them and will be doing them again this week. :-)
We have potential sugar poisoning here too: a hamper my husband got from his work has cake and chocolate, and I can't resist things like Stollen (with marzipan in the centre!), spice biscuits (cookies to you) and mince pies. You can get the pies with six-pointed stars on them (see icon of some I bought last week) inadvertently covering two festivals. :-D
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Unless you have some bizarre idea that the mashed potato croquette things are latkas. They, are, in fact, abominations before the LORD.
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If you need to grate the potatoes, can you just substitute shredded hash browns from the refrigerator section of the grocery store?
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... but would it *work*? :)
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I had latkes, fish, and doughnuts for dinner last night. :-)
When I was working in Germany, I used to buy them in the street as Kartoffelpuffer (mit Apfelmuss). Followed by crepes suzette: oh yes!
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And that, my friends, is the proper way to celebrate Hannukah.
I made latkas last week for a gathering of friends, but I've actually fried very little this year--my wife (the Christian half of my mixed marriage) made six batches of Christmas cookies, so I've been trying to maximize the amount of nutrition in our actual meals.
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Since I have to grate by hand (which I really hate) I don't often make latkes either. But I love them and will be doing them again this week. :-)
We have potential sugar poisoning here too: a hamper my husband got from his work has cake and chocolate, and I can't resist things like Stollen (with marzipan in the centre!), spice biscuits (cookies to you) and mince pies. You can get the pies with six-pointed stars on them (see icon of some I bought last week) inadvertently covering two festivals. :-D
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