Why the United States is Great!
Dec 2, 2013 | 7:43 pm
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Why the United States is Great!
Leftover dinner - Latkes and eggs, 2 kinds of tamales, hot sauce, hummus, herbed cheese.
Not too many places on earth where one has this mix of holiday leftovers!
The eclectic dessert follows ...
Not too many places on earth where one has this mix of holiday leftovers!
The eclectic dessert follows ...
Dec 2, 2013 | 9:10 pm
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Why the United States is Great!
And the shopping madness that follows.
Am overseas now and not a single "Take 10% off price" to be seen. So many different food choices, places, mountains, beaches...things we take for granted.
Cant wait to go back home tomorrow!!
Glod Bless The USA!
Am overseas now and not a single "Take 10% off price" to be seen. So many different food choices, places, mountains, beaches...things we take for granted.
Cant wait to go back home tomorrow!!
Glod Bless The USA!
Dec 6, 2013 | 6:59 am
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Wow.. not really authentic Hanukkah candles then..
Leftovers are nice after the holidays. Grams usually puts some of the fixins out the next day when we are out at her place.. Nothing wrong with continuing the festivities.
Leftovers are nice after the holidays. Grams usually puts some of the fixins out the next day when we are out at her place.. Nothing wrong with continuing the festivities.
Dec 7, 2013 | 12:03 pm
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Next Friday is the Christmas lunch/party at my daughter's nursery. We've all been asked to bring in something representative of our child's culture/ethnic background - as well as a few English dishes there'll be home cooked dishes from California, Estonia, France, Portugal, Spain, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Japan.
Substitute latkes for samosas, tamales for spring rolls, add some guacamole and taramasalata along with the hot sauce, hummus and herbed cheese and you've pretty much described the party menu at half the households in Britain at the end of the year festivities.
http://www.marksandspencer.com/Finge...e/b/1673638031
I bet wealthy families from a century or so ago were patting themselves on the back with regards to the supremely varied (and oh so expensive) international flavours on their Christmas tables. The food miles involved in creating a "typical" Christmas plum pudding alone seem incredible enough now, let alone then. And what could conjure up a taste of the Americas more than turkey and potatoes? My Spanish mother still thinks of Dutch orange carrots as a modern innovation as she grew up with the purple kind.
Dec 7, 2013 | 2:15 pm
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It is written. But it was part of the third tablet (the one that fell off on the trek down Mt. Sinai). Samosas were never mentioned.
Dec 8, 2013 | 8:18 am
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Anyway, you haven't tried my mum's tortilla de patatas (potato omelet) and these can be argued to come from Jewish cuisine also (*link in Spanish below supporting this), then again, what can be more Sephardic than sambusak, so very similar to samosas...
So the real title to this thread is "why having an Ashkenazic Jewish heritage is great"
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http://gourmetymerlin.blogspot.co.uk...tatas-vii.html
Dec 11, 2013 | 8:06 pm
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Dec 11, 2013 | 10:38 pm
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I wouldn't be so sure about that.
Next Friday is the Christmas lunch/party at my daughter's nursery. We've all been asked to bring in something representative of our child's culture/ethnic background - as well as a few English dishes there'll be home cooked dishes from California, Estonia, France, Portugal, Spain, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Japan.
Substitute latkes for samosas, tamales for spring rolls, add some guacamole and taramasalata along with the hot sauce, hummus and herbed cheese and you've pretty much described the party menu at half the households in Britain at the end of the year festivities.
http://www.marksandspencer.com/Finge...e/b/1673638031
I bet wealthy families from a century or so ago were patting themselves on the back with regards to the supremely varied (and oh so expensive) international flavours on their Christmas tables. The food miles involved in creating a "typical" Christmas plum pudding alone seem incredible enough now, let alone then. And what could conjure up a taste of the Americas more than turkey and potatoes? My Spanish mother still thinks of Dutch orange carrots as a modern innovation as she grew up with the purple kind.
Next Friday is the Christmas lunch/party at my daughter's nursery. We've all been asked to bring in something representative of our child's culture/ethnic background - as well as a few English dishes there'll be home cooked dishes from California, Estonia, France, Portugal, Spain, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Japan.
Substitute latkes for samosas, tamales for spring rolls, add some guacamole and taramasalata along with the hot sauce, hummus and herbed cheese and you've pretty much described the party menu at half the households in Britain at the end of the year festivities.
http://www.marksandspencer.com/Finge...e/b/1673638031
I bet wealthy families from a century or so ago were patting themselves on the back with regards to the supremely varied (and oh so expensive) international flavours on their Christmas tables. The food miles involved in creating a "typical" Christmas plum pudding alone seem incredible enough now, let alone then. And what could conjure up a taste of the Americas more than turkey and potatoes? My Spanish mother still thinks of Dutch orange carrots as a modern innovation as she grew up with the purple kind.