Happy Hanukkah!
Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends. I miss the latkes and jelly doughnuts my roommates received for the holiday at college. [Their grandmothers were afraid they wouldn’t celebrate or couldn’t get “real” food at that terrible Baptist university.] It was a great break.
One of the nice things about Hanukkah is that there are established “gifts”, so you don’t have to rack your brains about what to get: a card and gelt covers just about everyone.
General background at Wikipedia’s entry for Hanukkah and even more at Chabad’s Chanukah page.
[Note: on the Jewish calendar the day changes at sundown, not midnight.]
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Latkes and jelly donuts sound good, just about now. I’m not sure I ever tried a latke, but it sounds tasty. Happy Hanukkah!
Shredded potatoes, eggs, bread crumbs mixed together and formed into hamburger-sized circles. Fry them and top them with apple sauce. They would be a natural at Waffle House.
The first time I had Latkes was when I was about 11. An Aunt (on Mom’s side) married an Austrian Butcher and they lived in a large town on the Victoria New South Wales border. We went there for a week over Xmas. They had 3 small smokehouses, one for fish, poultry & sausages. I helped my Uncle make some sausages and smoke them. We also went fishing and caught some Trout and smoked them too. It was a lot of fun! My Aunt made Latkes and fresh pumpernickel bread in their outside stone oven for dinner Xmas eve. I went there a few times over the years after. They always fed me well! 🤗👍
Carbs are on the menu for all of central Europe. 😉
The thing about sausage is that almost nothing is wasted. No matter where it came from on the animal, there is a wurst it can go into. With caribou/reindeer you can add the shoulder fat to the meat to give it flavor. Most of the meat/muscle is pure protein. Camels are the same. (You learn to eat everything in survival school.)
Sounds good.
Oy! I could eat a heap of latke right now. Do you think they come frozen at the supermarket?
Whole Foods, Publix, Costco all have them, so you are probably able to find them in the Granite State. The mixes are cheaper and more likely to be better.