Happy Chanukah . It may be Thanksgiving here in the States but I wish all of our Jewish Members a happy Chanukah , and if you celebrate Thanksgiving a happy one at that as well.
To any Jewish members have a Wonderful Chanukah
- Thread starter TheBeardedWonder
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Thank you, sir!
Chanukah is fine example of the common theme among so many Jewish holidays:
Nick
Chanukah is fine example of the common theme among so many Jewish holidays:
- They tried to kill us.
- We won.
- Let's eat!
Nick
Yep. That's every holiday.
The key to matzo balls is to add shcmaltz. For the rest of the world, that's rendered chicken fat.
I completely agree. A matzo ball without schmaltz is little more than an ordinary dumpling.
I also find that separating the eggs and slightly whipping the egg whites makes for a lighter matzo ball that's less likely to sink like a lead weight in the soup.
Nick
Roll 'em golf ball size?
I see I don't have to tell you anything about them. 
I see I don't have to tell you anything about them.
Perhaps not, but we're helping educate a lot of other members who've had to suffer a lifetime of lesser matzo balls.
Nick
I think my Grandmother used to make something like that which she put in Italian Wedding Soup.
Good point. I don't expect anyone to start calling them kneidlach, but they shouldn't have to suffer the fate of those who tried my Aunt Faye's matzo balls, which killed more people than the plague.
I have to say, all this Jewish centric holiday talk is making me feel a bit uncomfortable - and by uncomfortable, I mean at a truly gut level.
To hell with it, Im just going to say whats really on my mind, I am so jealous, and so hungry! Do you have any idea how hard, as a gentile, it is to get good (I mean really good) chicken soup with matzo balls?
You guys are killing me here
-s
Don't feel bad, you can't even get a good version here in NYC, and you'll recall what Jessie Jackson called the town some thirty years ago.
Great soup is made, not bought.
Great soup is made, not bought.
Well, you're in Madison so you're not that far away. If you ever find yourself in Chicago, I'll buy you a bowl of great chicken soup and matzo balls. Might not be as good as Ouch can get in Jersey, but it's pretty good here.
Ouch can probably get real bagels, though. What we have here is just round bread with a hole in the middle. They bear no resemblance to real bagels.
Nick
Is a matzo an unleavened cracker/bread?
Thinking back to watching Grandma make that soup.
Thinking back to watching Grandma make that soup.
Regnad Kcin is correct: I can get great bagels where I work. It's the best possible under-a-buck breakfast. In fact, if a bum asks you for a handout, you should give him a bagel.
As has been said, "You don't know what you got till its gone", I was spoiled many years ago by a girlfriends mother & grandmothers cooking being very young, I had no idea what I was giving up when we broke up..
-s
Thank you for the kind offer sir - while Chicago may not be Jersey, good company can go a long way
-s
Ha! I think I like my B&B nickname better backwards than forwards
And I'm jealous of the bums in your area if they get real bagels as handouts. Lucky bums.
Nick
Don't get between me and a bowl of borscht….
