A Crepey is not just for Christmas...

[oldqueencrepey]

It had to be done.
Phew that feels better.
Over here crepeys. All very welcome (but only if you're crepey).

[motherinferior]

Apparently, when married to Arthur Miller the divine Mizz M said to Arthur's mum on being presented with yet another bowl of matzo ball soup weren't there things you could do with other parts of the matzo...

[Cremolafoam]

Gefilte balls are poached fish ( usually river fish like perch) mixed with matzo meal. They symbolise something < I'm terribly lapsed sorry cant remember> and are neither meat or dairy so that's a good thing.
My sister calls the cods wallops .

[Stropperella]

[Stropperella]

Mmm, those gefilte balls don't sound all that yummy.

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Gefilte fish are like fish dumplings, Stropps. They are made with carp, a fish that has no redeeming features at all, and which features in much eastern European cookery. When cold, they can be covered deliciously in aspic and be decorated with a prettily shaped slice of carrot.

Lokshen pudding also has no redeeming features. I went to Slimming World once, and the class was predominantly Jewish. The woman running it was extolling the virtues of lokshen pudding and someone at the front of the class put their hand up and said "Why, once you are an adult and can make your own choices, would you eat this stuff?" That's how I feel about matzot. Mind you, Nigella tries to make Lokshen pudding sound appetizing and also fails, I think. I don't remember cream cheese going in ours, just milk and eggs with the pasta. And raisins sometimes. If we were spectacularly unlucky we would get noodles made by some distant relative that someone had brought over by the sackload when back from a visit to Hungary. I don't know what this bastard pasta was made of, but it never entirely softened.

Karotten tzimmes is also vetoed in this house by DH and the children (carrots cooked with cinnamon and honey), although I have converted them to the deliciousness of Klops.

[MrsSchadenfreude]

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Gefilte_fish_2.jpg&imgrefurl=commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gefilte_fish_2.jpg&h=757&w=1203&sz=105&tbnid=Tk2ZUiohoJFcrM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=143&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgefilte%2Bfish%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=gefilte+fish&usg=__4C8f6RDjd3xb_p_rw746_ysqtI4=&docid=7DmzCTfqE9J6CM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aT5GUYLUBMfDhAeiyYCIBw&ved=0CD0Q9QEwAQ&dur=26" rel="nofollow noindex" target="_blank">here They look like small boys' willies garnished with carrots. Appetising, no?

[MrsSchadenfreude]

(That's the gefilte fish, not the klops.)

[MrsSchadenfreude]

(Klops are like giants' gonads.)

[Stropperella]

Have now googled Klops. Meatballs? They look nice. Am afraid that Lokshen pudding sounds like something that might have turned up on a 1970s school dinners menu, which ime is not a good thing.

[Cremolafoam]

I do make the honey carrots sometimes but dh can't be doing with the cinnamon- so not v often.
I swear dd turned vegetarian to be saved the delights of her grandmothers schnitzel .

[Stropperella]

Oh gawd no, I couldn't eat those gefilte fish things. Aaargh. My eyes.

[Stropperella]

Gack, I don't like schnitzel either. It's too schnitzelly.

[Cremolafoam]

Stropps
Pasta dessert terrifying
Gwynnie would faint

[Stropperella]

We used to get macaroni pudding at school. Bleargh. Yeah, Gwynnie wouldn't even want to look at such a thing. Still, I can go along with her in this particular case.

[oldqueencrepey]

Can recall disturbing visit to the fish market in Budapest many moons ago. The ugly looking enormous carp were crammed in fish tanks.. the customer would point and choose whereupon the vendor would net it, bash it over the head with something like a baseball bat, wrap it in newspaper and hand it over. The fish would be stunned, not dead, so that when taken home it could be kept (alive) in bath until needed. Bleurgh.
Jewish cuisine does not have much to reccomend it in my view, at least not as made by dh's extended family. A penchant for truly disgusting salads (kiwi and strawberries in your green salad anyone?) and many disgusting ways with a dumpling.... happy days.

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Mmm, schnitzel. And a nice bit of brisket.

What other Jewish deliciousness do you eat, Crem? Pickled turnips? Gherkins? I will eat anything pickled, although it took me years to eat sauerkraut because we used to eat it every Saturday lunchtime with a smoked sausage and mash. In my mother's house, you knew what day it was by what was on your plate.

I do love a nice latke though.

[Stropperella]

My virtual introduction to Jewish cuisine isn't going terribly well so far

[Stropperella]

Oh, ok. Pickled gherkins are alright.

[Cremolafoam]

There was a thing we called flys graveyard which contained gargantuan quantities of currants( dried) and grey pastry. And then ther was Glue which had the grey pasty filled with ,hmm not sure , am glue I think . All served with raspberry custard( pink)
I starved until I begged my mother to let me bring a packed lunch. Even then I was subject to the gefilte balls lurking in lvash bread. Was like Russian roulette .

[oldqueencrepey]

oooh yes, a nice hot greasy latke! Now you're talking. And of course there's always apple strudel...

[motherinferior]

Yes, I was just thinking smugly of my Indian antecedents in the culinary department (as long as I stay off the Gwynnie thread where white rice is thoroughly abominated).

[Stropperella]

OK, have googled latke, that looks like Kartoffelpuffer. Yes, like those.

[motherinferior]

Bagels? Lox? Cream cheese?

[Stropperella]

Ah yes, this is more like it.

[Cremolafoam]

Much in the way of Felafel as dh and dd are veggies . We eat manys a bagel and I adore pickles although I have to admit it tends to be dainty cornichons smuggled home from France . We have an excellent Polish grocer who has the best pastrami and of course being Oirish we got good lox!
I am not very observant im afraid and I'm not a proper Jewish princess cos I < whispers> married out