Who cooks the Hanukkah in your family?

No one, my family celebrates Christmas.

Who celebrates Hanukkah?

I've always been curious about traditional Jewish food. For some reason it seems like it would be very bland but I could be wrong.

Bubbe.

[quote] Bubbe.

Who is that?

My family has latched on to latkes at Holiday time, even though we're not Jewish. We're of Irish Catholic descent. I think it's just that we really love potatoes.

We just get takeout.

My mom cooks latkes of course! They're drenched in vegetable oil, but I eat a couple once a year cuz they're so good.

Jewish food is pretty good, R3. I wouldn't call it bland, it's savory but not spicy. Lots of comfort foods and carbs. Matzoh ball soup is very yummy. I draw the line at gefilte fish though.

I just call Dean & Deluca and place my order. They show up with everything and lay it all out before everybody arrives.

Latkes ROCK. Try sweet potato ones sometime.

Dean & Deluca deliver Hanukkah dinner?

Latkes are just hashbrowns aren't they?

Very similar, R13, but latkes have egg and flour.

I've never heard of Hunukkah dinner. Maybe it's an American thing.

Gwyneth Paltrow cooks a whole Hanukkah meal from scratch.

Barry makes a mean brisket.

Too much grease and fat. My mother in law does latkes, noodle pudding, chopped liver (which I love), brisket. And mushroom soup. Once she did cabbage rolls with raisins. I'd never heard of raisins I cabbage rolls and was horrified. It didn't taste like a sweet and savory thing to me. It was just ... unpleasantly surprising.

We don't do a special meal every night. We usually fix four Hanukkah dinners when the evenings work out. It has just turned out that we prepare these things, as we like them and we're rather traditional.

Spiced brisket, tzimmes and latkes with baked apples

Poached chicken with a savory Moroccan sauce I like, a spinach dish, dried and fresh fruit salad or cranberry sauce.

Salmon or another fish with a noodle kugel and green beans. Last year we tried tuna steaks. Cheese!

An egg dish, like a casserole or frittata with more latkes or fried potatoes.

And, of course, sufganiyots (gotten pretty good making our own) and other doughnut and fried pastries.

Family and friends are there different nights. Other nights we visit or have smaller meals.

R18 does your partner like mom's cooking?

-Anyone else?

What about Jell-O?

I am making a pork roast this year.

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For Hanukkah, my Bubbe made a kishke.

Again what is a Bubbe?

an ox-like person, a minotaur

It's a yiddish word for grandmother, r26.

Is it really that hard to figure out?

But what is Yiddish?

What does gun-toting mum have to do with it all?

I light the oven.

Why isn't pork served on Hanukkah?

Thnak you for this thread exclusively for New Yorkers.

Pork products are not allowed, not sure about firearms.

[quote] Pork products are not allowed

Why?

Don't serve pork - try lobster with cream sauce.

I thought the colored maid did the cooking on Hanukkah.

Jewish people eat a lot of toffee.

I'm so very sad that so many homeowners still have no clue about Jews. Chanda!

[quote]I thought the colored maid did the cooking on Hanukkah.

Only if you find ground glass in the food afterwards.

Chanda Nawab, Indus news, Karachi.

I am pretty sure that if past lives exist, I was a hardcore Jewish Bubbe in one of them, or several of them.

I adore Jewish comfort food. Latkes with applesauce AND sour cream can be orgasmic. Chopped liver with lots of schmaltz is da bomb. Don't even get me started on noodle kugel. One time, I literally (yes literally) shed a tear over a pastrami sandwich.

Keep talking.

I only like those thick, juicy Jewish "sausages" when it comes to Jewish food.

Jewish food gives you constipation. Real mericans celebrate Christmas!

How do a cook a Hanukkah?

anti Semite at r44

R35, are you special by chance? You've done nothing but ask the most asinine questions on this thread.

Traditional Hanukkah eating is something oily to commemorate the miracle of the small amount of oil left after the desecration and recovery of the Temple lighting the sanctuary for eight full days. Hence, latkes, which are your basic potato pancakes, and like any potato pancakes can be wonderful or very ordinary.

-anyone else?

doughnuts

My family celebrates a mixture and Hanukkah and Christmas and we do have ham, as well as roast beef. It works for us.

[italic]anti Semite at [R44][/italic]

Oh dear.

R44 / R45 / R52 in this thread is also OP/R7 for the Tim Tebow/rabbi thread. If you check the other thread, you'll see he thinks people who object to Jew-bashing comments are "weirdos."

r53, you are seriously a pathetic creature. Get some help. Jesus Christ.

R44/r45/r52/r54, however do you find the time? You've been so busy in this thread, the rabbi-Tebow thread, the African-American actors thread, and now you've so graciously started the FAMU hazing homicide thread. Really, I don't know whether I can keep up.

[italic]however do you find the time?

Really, I don't know whether I can keep up.[/italic]

You just searched ten million threads, trying to find anything I've written. Blue pill or pink pill today?

I think a F&F is finally in order for you.

Happy Hanukkah !

What *is* your problem, R56?

No one cooks. We eat Baptist babies, raw.

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I am. This year, I am planning the following:

Smoked salmon on toast, cream cheese, traditional accompaniments

Gooseberry tarts with goat cheese crowns

Arugula, pear, walnut salad

Watercress soup (chilled)

Beef stew (hot) with homemade rolls, mushroom butter

Scallop and garlic mousse, fried shallots

Asparagus, chile hollandaise

Rack of lamb with mint jelly

Potatoes au gratin

Cider donuts, powdered sugar

Strawberry sorbet, fudge sauce

Drinks: Eggnog spiked with rum, tea, coffee, blueberry or lime cola

De trop?

Oy... This thread again?

Just trying to keep up with the goyim.

Excuse me -- I meant the gayim.

How cute, R61. But please keep the scallops out, of course and old the eggnog under the circumstances, for now.

In our family, we are joyous, but not doctrinaire.

We also have a slight tendency to be overweight.

Oy... This thread again!!!

I'm with R45, how does one cook "a Hanukkah"?

Oh, and R31, very cute.

I was watching a Property Brothers show and they were doing a house for a young Jewish couple (Orthodox) and they had to put in two stoves? What's the deal with that?

[You do realize that this is a troll, right? It just craves attention. You might want to stop talking to it.]

It wasn't "again" until you "agained" it, R68.

Are you people asking questions like "What is a bubbe" and "what is Yiddish?" actually fucking retarded, or are you just being intentionally irritating and idiotic? Who the fuck doesn't know what these things are? Ugh.

We're Jewish. We order Chinese.

R73, "asked", my dear. This thread is old.

R73, I happen to live in New York, but for many people outside New York and perhaps a couple of other metropolitan areas in the US, they have barely a clue what Jewish people do for their traditions or what expressions they use that are particular to them. Hell, they likely call themselves Christian but know little about Christianity. Next, try asking them what the difference is between an Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jew to get their heads spinning.

R73 stand on the street in the mid-west and ask what a Bubbe is

They will have no idea what u are talking about.,

I wish I had no idea what you are talking about when you say "u" instead of "you," R77.

R77, I cannot imagine any scenario that would have me voluntarily standing on a street in the Mid-West for any reason, ever.

I don't a lot about Jewish food, but I know that gifelte fish looks HORRIFYING. That is penance in a jar.

R74 -- my first though was Sweet and Sour Shrimp!

mmm... my succulent mussy cooks enough for the whole family.

r77, it's the Middle West.

I am Catholic and my husbear is Jewish. I like to cook, so almost all the cooking falls to me.

I used my mother's recipe for potato pancakes. My mother-in-law really doesn't like my recipe (I don't think she likes me at all), but she will eat what I make. I do know that the rest of my husbear's family really do enjoy my cooking.

In addition to the potato pancakes, instead of doughnuts, I made cheregyi, an Eastern European fried dough pastry.

To avoid that other December holiday, husbear went skiing with his family. He will be back on Saturday night.

I have also made Passover seders and shabbat dinners on Friday nights. If I do Friday dinner, salmon or tuna steak is on the menu.

I also have done Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Easter for my family. Thanksgiving for both of our families, plus New Year's Eve and New Year's Day parties as well as picnics and barbeques for Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day, etc

"The Hanukkah"? What kind of locution is this? Besides, what's to cook? We just drink the blood of Baptist babies.

Speak English, you ignorant twit.

Who cooks the Christmas in your family if you're Christian?

Channukah is a minor Jewish festival mainly for children. No big family meals are served, nothing special is done other than lighting the channukiah (wrongly called menorah) each night for 8 days, giving the children Channukah gelt and playing dreidl. Festive foods include anything fried, from latkes and ponchkes (sufganiot/donuts) to bimuelos, sfenj, shamlias and keftes de prasas and de espinaca.

I went to a sabbath meal during this holiday and I guess it depends on the cook, but fuck it was bland. Fortunately there was salt on the table as my hostess did not use any salt at all.

No sour cream for the latkes just that fucking nasty apple sauce.

I smiled and gave grateful thanks, and when home to popcorn. Yuch!

You guess a bland meal was dependent on the cook? Is there some other possibility?

Know nothing about Hanukkah dinners. Never been invited to any. Never been invited to a Seder either. Not a very inclusive community I find. Christians are more welcoming. Obviously I belong to neither.

I've hosted a couple of Seders though so I know that a bit more. Delicious.

R84, you cook a Hanukkah meal for your husbear's family, and he ditches you for Xmas? I probably wouldn't care, because I enjoy time with my family regardless of my significant other, but what's your reaction to that?

Is "Husbear" the gay equivalent of the Frau term "DH"? Just asking since it sounds just as stupid.

I get the hash browns from McDonald's and lay them out on a really Jewish looking plate. Been doing it for years.

R91 Where'd you get that idea? It seems like R84's husband's family wouldn't do anything for Christmas, so the dinner is for R84's family plus the husband. Common set-up.

Husbear is only acceptable if the husband actually is a big bearded bear.

Mutti...and she's a cunt.

[R84} here.

{R94} My husband is too short and thin to be a true bear; he is more of a wolf or an otter. He does have a beard though. He thinks of himself as a bear. My pet name for him is Bruno

{R91} The members of my husband's family are hardcore skiers. They are the first on the slopes in the morning, and the last to leave at the end of the day. No apres-ski for them. I, on the other hand, am not much a skier.

Since I began my relationship with my husband, I have noted that his family and old friends who are Jewish deal with Christmas and Easter in different ways. Some have Christmas trees in their homes. Others go out of their way not to deal with any signs of the Christian holidays. My in-laws travel during the holidays ... a ski vacation in December, a trip to Florida (Disney, tennis, golf, and sailing) to visit family in the spring.

Do I wish that my husband and I would spend more time together during the holidays? Of course I do, but neither of us want to give up our religion and religious traditions. Look, it isn't an ideal situation, but again what relationship is perfect

The head Jew

R95 GOOPY was talking about her German Christian grandma honey.