I wish my Jewish friends a happy Chanukah. Non-Jewish readers may be enlightened and entertained by this humorous guide to the festival.
I am grateful to the lovely Paull family for presenting me with a mini dreidel, a menorah and 44 candles following our Shabbat lunch on Saturday. They also handed me a guide to Chanukah, complete with a recipe for latkes. The recipe looks simple enough for me to give it a try in the kitchen, and I’d like to get in the spirit of the festival, albeit somewhat superficially and goyishly.
However, my rare attempts at cooking have sometimes resulted in atrocity. As a friend who sampled one ‘meal’ I ‘cooked’ remarked: “This is a day that will live in infamy”. If my so-called latkes go comically wrong I will post a photograph here for our amusement. But you never know, they might turn-out well — Chanukah is a time of miracles, after all.
Do what this Jewish woman does for latkes…go to the closest caterer that makes them and buy.
I like your style!
great photo & we will hold you to showing us your cooking skills, im sure on a bad day they are still far better than mine! x
I should be charming and say ‘Nonsense, I’m sure you’re a great cook’, but in your case I actually believe you!
See you soon – we’ll eat out! x
Happy Chanukah Chas. Duvid hopes you will be singing “I Have a Little Dreidel” while playing the high roller with your new mini-dreidel. Remember, “Nes Gadol Haya Po (A great miracle was here)”. Here too is the lovely Natalie Gelman on youtube, to accompany you:
http://youtu.be/4v0kZrLb9NE
Very lovely
You can always buy the easy mix packet for a “latkeish” taste. Yarden have it where you get your shwarma pack! Chanuka sameach!
Chas, don’t get a headache over food. If you can’t make latkes, and I certainly can’t, go and get some doughnuts (jam, preferably), which are very much part of the Chanukah ritual.
Eat, enjoy and my challenge to you is to see if you can find the candle lighting song, moatzur, sung by the Nachmans – that really would be something!
This is the closest I’ve got thus far http://youtu.be/4tJ5atV3C0s
And this chap! http://youtu.be/gue1Wb3tTGs
What amazing service. It’s why I keep coming back to Oy Va Goy!
Off for shawarma in GG tonight!
Update: I intended to make the latkes last night, but realised we have no potato peeler. I went to buy a peeler this morning but got distracted in the shop – ended-up buying £20 of light bulbs and no peeler.
I don’t know how to make them myself, but I (dimly) recall that my mother boiled the potatoes (I’m guessing she strove to get them just barely cooked, for this purpose), then riced them, then formed them into patties, and finally browned them in a bit more oil than one needs merely to “wet” the pan.
As far as peelers go, you can always shave off the skins with a paring knife (being careful of yon fingers, of course).
Posting a bit late; just got back from a family visit.
Be Well
Rob