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Happy Lunar New Year (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

There's plenty of Jewish food cookbooks out there! I'm personally a big fan of kugel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugel

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

My (fairly religious) aunt introduced me to latkes when I was a kid and it became a lifelong love affair.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I love a good latke, but a bad latke is a very sad thing indeed.

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

She was (is) a great cook, they were always light and fluffy. Usually we'd have them with applesauce but sometimes she'd make them with a lot of onion and we'd eat them with ketchup.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Ew. I don't know about ketchup. We always have sour cream.

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I love my aunt and have very fond memories of oniony, ketchupy latkes but I don't eat ketchup with my potatos anymore lol.

In my defense, I was a child. I'm not even sure where she came across them, we're not Jewish (we were Baptists, from the midwest).

She also makes an onion pie that's pretty great.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

It's also so easy to make that even my mother can't fuck it up. Which, if you ever had my mother's attempts at cooking, is very impressive.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Lmao. Does her cooking make you nostalgic?

My mom regrets that she didn't learn all of her mother's cajun recipes. I regret it, too.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

It does not. She's a much better cook than when I was a kid while still being a terrible cook. But at least her idea of offering me dinner is no longer a defrosted turkey burger every night.

There were also the dreaded dinnertime words of my childhood: "This was an experiment."

Because the "experiment" was usually something like, "the recipe called for two cups of sugar and that's too much sugar, so I substituted cottage cheese."

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

That sounds horrendous. Kind of adorable, though.

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