What is your favorite Jewish Food?

Esav Benyamin said:
We ate good East European peasant food. My grandparents WERE East European peasants. :p
We even used Russian names for some foods: borsht, kasha, chrein.
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The chrein in Spain on the table makes a stain. :p

My grandparents were from Riga.

Hey! Esav. Maybe we should post that e-mail about Jewish cooking that I sent you.
 
When I was studying Russian, we started with simple daily conversation, including dining. Names of foods. Most of the class had a problem with "kasha" being translated as 'kasha'. The funniest was one guy who asked about "selyodka" being translated as 'herring'. What's 'herring', he wanted to know.
 
Herring ? My mother took a trip to Norway to see family but went with a group. She was interested in what they thought of Norwegian foods so asked them after having a meal at a large restaurant. One couple was a bit embarassed as they never got past the appetizers ! They decided to try all the ways that herring was made for the appetizers. That was a LONG list !! The two most important fish in Europe were herring and codfish and wars were fought over fishing territory .The coat of arms of Iceland has a codfish ! Even the Vikings 1000 years ago had an extensive codfish trade throughout Europe as it could be dried easily to preserve it.Herring is either smoked or pickled to preserve.
 
Hey, cod was important in the New World as well. There is even a cape named after it somewhere.....
 
Lycosa said:
Hehluushskis. :)
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Lycosa:

Do you mean drop noodles? My Czechoslovakian and firmly Roman Catholic grandmother called them Holoushky. But they have many names throughout Central Europe, from Nukedly to Spratzle. I don’t find calling them Hehluushskis a stretch, if that is what you mean.

This thread has me wondering. Are bagels, cream cheese and lox kosher? It’s not exactly mixing a mammal’s flesh with milk. Nor does salmon count as a shellfish. But it is an animal protein mixed with a milk product served on a grain product. Is it kosher?
 
Raymond1000 said:
This thread has me wondering. Are bagels, cream cheese and lox kosher? It’s not exactly mixing a mammal’s flesh with milk. Nor does salmon count as a shellfish. But it is an animal protein mixed with a milk product served on a grain product. Is it kosher?
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Yes..............
 
Here's some of the basic rules. If you want to read the whole thing, here's the link. http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm




General Rules

Although the details of kashrut are extensive, the laws all derive from a few fairly simple, straightforward rules:

1. Certain animals may not be eaten at all. This restriction includes the flesh, organs, eggs and milk of the forbidden animals.
2. Of the animals that may be eaten, the birds and mammals must be killed in accordance with Jewish law.
3. All blood must be drained from the meat or broiled out of it before it is eaten.
4. Certain parts of permitted animals may not be eaten.
5. Fruits and vegetables are permitted, but must be inspected for bugs
6. Meat (the flesh of birds and mammals) cannot be eaten with dairy. Fish, eggs, fruits, vegetables and grains can be eaten with either meat or dairy. (According to some views, fish may not be eaten with meat).
7. Utensils that have come into contact with meat may not be used with dairy, and vice versa. Utensils that have come into contact with non-kosher food may not be used with kosher food. This applies only where the contact occurred while the food was hot.
8. Grape products made by non-Jews may not be eaten.
9. There are a few other rules that are not universal.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Pumpernickel is my favorite. I used to get pumpernickel bagels around the corner. And you're right about chopped liver with onion. I would mince onion into the chopped liver myself, but onion it must have. :)
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I haven't found good pumpernickel around DC. It has to be here somewhere ... but where?? :confused::(

...love pumpernickel. Especially with chopped liver/onion.
 
There's a lot missing around DC, why do they deserve pumpernickel? :D

There is a BIG difference between packaged pumpernickel (or any of the plastic-wrapped breads) and the real thing from the bakery. I remember at my grandparents one day my mother complaining about all the bread on the table. My grandfather would go to the baker and get rye, corn bread, pumpernickel, crescents (NOT croissants), and kaiser rolls when we were coming over. He said, it's not a meal without bread and she said that's because in Russia bread was all you had. We've got a roast chicken and pot roast and potatoes and vegetables here. But they appreciated real bread then. Bread didn't fold over and crumble.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
There's a lot missing around DC, why do they deserve pumpernickel? :D

There is a BIG difference between packaged pumpernickel (or any of the plastic-wrapped breads) and the real thing from the bakery. I remember at my grandparents one day my mother complaining about all the bread on the table. My grandfather would go to the baker and get rye, corn bread, pumpernickel, crescents (NOT croissants), and kaiser rolls when we were coming over. He said, it's not a meal without bread and she said that's because in Russia bread was all you had. We've got a roast chicken and pot roast and potatoes and vegetables here. But they appreciated real bread then. Bread didn't fold over and crumble.
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That's the way to eat. I have been thinking about that fried onion, mushrooms, and potatoes. You mentioned sour cream mixed with it. Let me tell you, that sounds so darn good my mouth is watering thinking about it. What is that called? I know what I am going to be picking up at the market tommorow. I can hardly wait. :)
 
Mushroom and onion heated up in olive oil is a quick snack I fix sometimes. I was hungry, so I put up potato to go with it. Evolute suggested the sour cream mixed with mushroom and onion, which I sometimes have on plain potato. All of them together would make a decent little meal. :)

I didn't mention I mixed in a lot of crushed garlic with the mushroom and onion.
 
That is some good winter food. With some nice rye bread from the bakery and I'll be in heaven, or pretty close to it.
 
mete, there was a kosher pizza place at the corner of 2nd and 81st for a while. It was funny, they opened just before a Jewish holiday, and immediately closed for the holiday. :)
 
My list.....

Gifilte fish..... My mom makes the BEST
Chopped herring and Kichel..... My mom makes the BEST
Kreplach and chicken soup..... My mom makes the BEST
Lamb Tzimmes.............. My mom makes the BEST
Chopped Liver...............Yeah guess what....My mom makes the BEST!!!!!:)

Freshly baked Kitkah with butter and apricot jam....My mom Buys the best

Lastly a winter dish not for the cholesterol of heart........ Cholent

The above list might explain why half the family have heart conditions:D
 
Steven , I love your new avatar ! The logo is the most politically incorrect logo I know of .The serpent is eating a man - a saracen [muslim] !
Did you see my post about cholent being invented in renaissance Italy ?
 

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mete said:
Did you see my post about cholent being invented in renaissance Italy ?
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Sorry--I am pretty sure that cholent, or Chamin as it is referred to by Sephardic Jews, predates the Renaissance by quite a bit. I can find references if you like.
 
We used to occasionally have herring with cucumbers and sour cream.

My late father used to talk about Ducks Blood Soup...and I see recipes for it occasionally in Polish/Jewish cookbooks, but surely that can't be kosher can it?
 
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