This family is the real deal. They deep-fry their turkey (see idea#1), Mom and Dad are both rabbis, and Mom bakes up a storm. She even makes her own pumpkin butter. That’s too intense for me, but I found some great pumpkin butter in the store. It’s from Oregon.
Follow the link for a full recipe. It’s a great baking blog, if you are kosher and pareve.
TRAYF ALERT! An idea related to Thangsivikah idea #3
Do you know what Poutine is? It’s french fries and gravy (like they have in Baltimore) with cheese curds.
Well, Thanksgivvikuah idea #3 is–potato latkes with turkey gravy! I overheard someone at Etz Chayim mention it.
I was overcome with admiration. I asked the Etz Women if anyone who might have said it, and Sharon Fiekowsky said it was her, so thanks, Sharon! What I forgot to ask her is: what was she doing at Etz that I could overhear her? Maybe at a baby-naming?
Anyway.
If people want something mashed that will accomodate a bit more gravy, well, there’s lots of choices: Mash some more potatoes, or serve grits, mashed or pureed turnips or chestnuts or cauliflower or parsnips or celeriac, or, heavens to betsy MASH THE SWEET POTATOES!
If you click on the title of this post, which I see as purple–the top line, where it says TRAYF ALERT! you will be directed to an article from the Toronto Star, which is about a cross-cultural poutine, one made with butter chicken sauce and cheddar instead of gravy and cheese curds, just so you know I’m not the only fusion-crazy, line-blurring person out there.
A latke is a latke is a latke.
A vegetable is grated, mixed with a binder, formed into patties which are fried. My latke rainbow was made with four different types of veggies. You can see from the color differences in the picture below, the type of vegetable is not that important.
Top to bottom, we have sweet potato, zucchini, Chioggia beet, and potato. The black specks on the beet latkes, I’m afraid, are bits of burned latke, hard to avoid with the beet’s high sugar content.
So, grate some sweet potatoes make sweet potato latkes, and serve with cranberry sauce on Thanksgivukah. Light the candles and play some dreidel after dessert.
May your turkey be moist, and your dreidels all land on gimmel!
On chanukah, we celebrate by frying things. European Jews fry grated potatoes for latkes, Sephardic jews fry pastry for soufganiot, or jelly doughnuts.
While I have seen some recipes for sweet potato latkes to be served up with cranberry sauce, why hasn’t anyone suggested frying a TURKEY for Thanksgivvukah? It’s supposed to be very good. It takes much less time.
I bet it’s because a deep-fired turkey is too redneck, or too dangerous.
Cowards.
Accepted For Consideration, My Grant Idea!
My Idea Is:
Get Permission from a local multiplex theater, and hold a Tu B’shvat Seder Flashmob
I’ll Use My Grant To:
We’ll need permits, food, a photographer, and a social media coordinator
My Intended Audience:
Virally, through email lists of Congregation Etz Chayim’s co-workers
I’ll Share The Experience With Others By:
Smartphones will capture the mixing of the wines and the photographer will capture the crowd scenes.
About Me:
I am the president of Congregation Etz Chayim in Palo Alto. Through my Federation service, PTA service, soccer coaching, and volunteering with the VA in Palo Alto, I have gotten to know a LOT of people.
As President of Etz Chayim, I am very proud of the innovative, fresh, inspiring programming we do for the community. I also support the community by giving to the Jewish Federation. As a donor to Etz Chayim, I am happy to support this programming.
Until I see that someone else is getting a GRANT from JCF for doing the very same thing we do at Etz using MY MONEY. Then I get a bit peeved. So this week, I’m trying to write some grants for Etz Chayim. There are so many area where we excel–accessibility, service, musicality, I feel like writing three or four.
I’ll have to look up the rules…
I submitted an invoice to Scooter Magazine to get paid for my interview that was published there. What I did , which was send an email with a pdf of my invoice, was acceptable, but I offered to include a SASE. Which showed up on the pdf. Which was silly, because the whole transaction was conducted via email.
If I don’t get a check in a week, I’m sending the paper invoice.
Still, it’s progress.
OK, this is in the “About Damn Time” category. ITS is short for International Tracing Service, which was set up by the Red Cross after World War II. It is the place where people registered themselves after the war so they could be found. But I am not exactly sure how much tracing went out, because THEIR RECORDS WERE HIDDEN, and only unveiled SIXTY YEARS after the war was over. at a certain point. I’m not sure how many people were actually reconnected. What was the point?
This probably happened to save the European countries who sponsored the International REd Cross the expense of restoring lost property to the families of murdured Jews.
Does anyone know differently?
How many reunions resulted form the ITS records between 1946 and 1960, for instance, when most of the survivors where still alive?
Archives of the International Tracing Service
Documentary heritage submitted by the International Commission for the International Tracing Service (ITS) and recommended for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2013.
Between 1933 and 1945 the world went through an unprecedented period of destruction and persecution caused by the National Socialist regime in Germany. The Second World War represents the widest conflict humanity ever experienced, resulting in internments, displacements and deaths. The collection contains material from concentration and extermination camps, ghettos and Gestapo prisons, as well as documentation on the displacement and exploitation of forced labour and the fates of displaced people including survivors searching to emigrate out of a destroyed Europe. Since 1946, the archives of the ITS in Bad Arolsen (Germany) have been testimony to the persecution of minorities and political opponents of all kinds, the extreme exploitation of forced labour and a vast uprooting of people from their homes. The sheer volume of the ITS archives illustrates the extent of Nazi crimes. As witnesses will soon no longer be around to tell their stories, the documents become of even greater relevance.
Year of submission: 2012
Year of inscription: 2013
Organization: International Commission for the International Tracing Service (ITS)
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