primitives discuss Jewish food they've eaten

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115734199

Oh my.

This is just a token campfire from the cooking and baking forum; I've been busy, and not able to pay the cooking and baking primitives much attention lately.  I don't want them to think I've forgotten all about them, especially since the cooking and baking primitives are going to be one of my top nominees for the Top DUmmies of 2013.

Behind the Aegis (30,177 posts)    Tue Nov 12, 2013, 11:35 PM

What types of Jewish food have you had?

http://www.listchallenges.com/jewish-food
 
I will be honest, there are a few I had never head of, and some I absolutely won't eat, as I tend to be very picky. My favorite, of course, are pickles, except bread and butter, I will eat just about any type of pickle (shut up!).

<<<went to the link and looked at all the pretty pictures.

<<<have dined on everything there excepting where fish, tongue, horseradish, pastrami, lox, raisins, kishki, onions, liver, grease, or mushrooms are an ingredient.

Betsy Ross (3,097 posts)    Tue Nov 12, 2013, 11:39 PM

1. Everything but TONGUE!

JimDandy (3,203 posts)    Wed Nov 13, 2013, 03:40 AM

8. Beef Tongue is delicious!

Haven't had it in almost 40 yrs though. Not a Jew but have eaten 17 items on the list.

hollysmom (1,862 posts)   Tue Nov 12, 2013, 11:46 PM

2. considering I worked many years in NY and

my grandfather ran a deli and not all the "Jewish" food is really just Jewish food and most of my friends growing up were Jewish, I have had everything except
Cholent
Tzimmes
Teiglach
Mandelach
Mandelbrodt
Charoset

Of it all, I still love my egg salad sandwiches and blintzes. I make my own Pierogi (Polish style) chicken soup and grandma made Kishka when I was a kid.
 
Seriously =- black and white cookies Jewish? since when

Behind the Aegis (30,177 posts)    Tue Nov 12, 2013, 11:49 PM

3. I was flabbergasted at the Passover cereal. That made me giggle.

Charoset is usually only eaten at Passover meals, though some will eat it at other times. I freakin' love blintzes, but haven't had any in years!

elleng (43,346 posts)   Tue Nov 12, 2013, 11:54 PM

5. Hey, MY grandfather ran a deli,

in NY, where my father was born, 100 years ago today (almost,) (11-13-13.)

I wonder about the black and white cookies too! And egg salad JEWISH???

elleng (43,346 posts)    Tue Nov 12, 2013, 11:50 PM

4. 43, but please hold the mustard

on the knish!

Graybeard (6,981 posts)   Wed Nov 13, 2013, 12:06 AM

6. SIL's matzo ball soup.

All of the wonderful Holiday meals at my brother's home prepared by my sister-in-law bring fond memories. From the brisket to the bread pudding everything was great but my favorite was always her Matzo Ball Soup.
 
The matzo balls were as light as clouds and would absorb just the right amount of the delicious broth. Never had any that good any place else.

Behind the Aegis (30,177 posts)    Wed Nov 13, 2013, 12:20 AM

7. Matzo ball soup can be difficult to make.

I can actually make it pretty well, light and fluffy balls. I have had some that were like damn stones! There were so heavy. Your SIL's MBS sounds divine!

eridani (39,864 posts)    Fri Nov 15, 2013, 05:48 AM

17. I think that vegan kosher has got to be one of the world's LUMPIEST cuisines

Although matzo rocks certainly can be made non-vegan style as well.

Personal faves are lox and bagels and blintzes.

Fortinbras Armstrong (1,283 posts)    Wed Nov 13, 2013, 07:08 AM

9. I've had 44 from that list

Some of them are not specifically Jewish -- My wife comes from a Polish Catholic family, and Pierogi are a staple at her mother's home. Similarly, while my mother is a Jew, she comes from Vienna, and undoubtedly looks at strudel as Austrian, not Jewish. I love knishes, and make them regularly, but would never dream of having them with mustard. Some of them I've never heard of.

^^^uh-huh, that.

And now, MsPiggy:

msanthrope (20,118 posts)    Wed Nov 13, 2013, 10:03 AM

10. I've had everything on that list. I grew up in NYC.

NJCher (15,894 posts)    Wed Nov 13, 2013, 06:22 PM

11. that was fun

Scored 40! I didn't think it would be that high.

Why isn't whitefish salad on there? And that oily fish that's so good? Can't remember the name. Oh, sable!
 
Now I'm going to be crying for some Jewish deli food. Fortunately I won't have to cry for long--there are some great delis in town and even the supermarkets here have big Jewish food selections.
 
I used to always have Jewish food on Sunday mornings---lox, cream cheese. chicken livers, whitefish salad, sable, bagels. That was my big weekend treat. Then we would go out for jazz in the afternoon. Memories, sigh, sigh.
 
Also, I went to a Seder where I had some of the most divine matzoh ball soup ever. The matzoh balls were light and fluffy, as described in a couple posts upthread.

surrealAmerican (8,126 posts)    Wed Nov 13, 2013, 07:10 PM

12. 49 out of 50.

I don't think I've ever tried babka. Some of these are things I don't like/won't eat, but I have tasted them as a child. Others are things I like well enough to have leaned how to cook myself.

The empressof all (27,845 posts)    Thu Nov 14, 2013, 12:19 PM

15. That Picture looks to me more like Poteca

Babka is easy to make and really can be plain or with raisins. It's just a high risen slightly sweet bread. Like the folks from Seinfeld I kind of like the chocolate chip variety.
 
If you bake google a recipe. Great way to spend a rainy afternoon.

Galileo126 (98 posts)    Wed Nov 13, 2013, 09:47 PM

13. It's hard to tell...

I grew up in RI, so the NYC influence was ever-present. We just called it "food". I never much gave it a thought that what we were eating was Jewish or otherwise. Ok, maybe matzo. That's pretty distinctive.
 
(Sorry, Manischewitz wine wasn't a thing for me, even at the tender age of 13.)

However, I never had matzo ball soup, and I'm dying to try it. My wish is... don't skimp on the schmaltz! My mom makes a good chicken soup (she's a 70-yr old Italian), but always skims off the schmaltz. I say, that is where the flavor is! Always pisses me off.
 
Like I said, I dunno if it was Jewish food, or just food... we liked what we ate. We never gave it much thought.

The empressof all (27,845 posts)    Thu Nov 14, 2013, 12:13 PM

14. Pretty much everything from the list

But truth be told I think Kishka is a food from the devil. Even the smell makes me want to...excuse myself...LOL. My mother cooked it on Sunday morning and I had to leave the house ..it was that bad.
 
I'm not a fan of Gefilte Fish from the bottle. Homemade is ok with a bit of horseradish.
 
And what about Schwarma??? or Falafel??? I guess they aren't traditional American Jewish and more Israeli or Middle Eastern.
 
As a kid we ate Schmaltz on rye bread with Gribenes on top for crunch...OMG I may need to roast as chicken...but Alas I can get no good Jewish Rye in Seattle...They all pale in the glory of a good loaf of NY Rye with the hard crust and the seeds,.

  grease sandwiches.

Retrograde (3,428 posts)    Thu Nov 14, 2013, 07:32 PM

16. Most of them

but since a lot of the dishes shown are standard Eastern European cuisine, maybe tweaked to fit kosher rules, I don't think of them as Jewish food - it's what my Polish grandmothers made. And I worked in Manhattan for a while (this has a very New York feel to it).

^^^uh-huh, that.

[NHSparky]

Polish ancestry.  Lived in LA.  Been to NYC more times than I can count.

"Jewish" food?  Why don't you DUmbasses explain what that means?  Oh, you mean KOSHER foods?  Or something else?

I challenge any DUmmie to explain how food is made kosher.

[marv]

A Jewish friend of mine back in the Air Force introduced me to lox and bagels, traditional Saturday Jewish brunch. Love it, and still have some today.

[franksolich]

A Jewish friend of mine back in the Air Force introduced me to lox and bagels, traditional Saturday Jewish brunch. Love it, and still have some today.

I don't want to get too personal, sir, because I like and respect you loads and loads; you're a gentleman of the highest order.

But anyway, by chance, by the time the lox is working its way through the digestive system, does your dog run away from you?

[obumazombie]

Bagels and lox, minus the lox.

[marv]

I don't want to get too personal, sir, because I like and respect you loads and loads; you're a gentleman of the highest order.

But anyway, by chance, by the time the lox is working its way through the digestive system, does your dog run away from you?

Nope, and they appreciate smoked salmon.......sometimes, I even smoke the salmon myself. BTW, I skip the garnishments. Just the smoked salmon, cream cheese and untoasted bagels from the store.

[Big Dog]

I like smoked and cream cheese on thinly sliced toasted bagels.

Good eating.

By Dummy standards, that makes me Hasidic.

[Mike220]

These people are morons. I ate most of that growing up in a nominally Catholic Slovak/Polish family. There may be modifications for kosher or cultural purposes, but it's mostly standard Central/Eastern European fare, which makes sense since the majority of Jews in the US are Ashkenazim.

I say there's not much "Jewish" other than matzah and cholent on that list.

I'd kill for some lox and bagels right now though. And it's almost Chanukah which means all the sufganiyot you can eat. Anna's mother makes some good ones.

[Mike220]

I like smoked and cream cheese on thinly sliced toasted bagels.

Good eating.

By Dummy standards, that makes me Hasidic.

Mazel tov.

[Big Dog]

Mazel tov.

Rock on!

[GOBUCKS]

My favorite cut of the beast is beef tongue.

A bunch of spices, a bay leaf, a little vinegar maybe, about 35-40 minutes in the pressure cooker, and you have great sandwiches for a week.

Without a pressure cooker it probably takes three or four hours to get tender so the skin slips off.

The only good thing about the invasion of illegal mexicans is that WalMart always carries beef tongue. 

Before the mexicans came swarming in it was hard to find without going to a custom butcher.

I think tongue is a little like squirrel brains. If you don't learn to enjoy it as a child you'll probably never acquire the taste.

[marv]

My favorite cut of the beast is beef tongue.

A bunch of spices, a bay leaf, a little vinegar maybe, about 35-40 minutes in the pressure cooker, and you have great sandwiches for a week.

Without a pressure cooker it probably takes three or four hours to get tender so the skin slips off.

I agree. Mom fixed it when I was a child many years ago. Now, it's hard to find. Another was sweetbreads mixed in with scrambled eggs.

Walmart is the place to go.

[Big Dog]

My favorite cut of the beast is beef tongue.

A bunch of spices, a bay leaf, a little vinegar maybe, about 35-40 minutes in the pressure cooker, and you have great sandwiches for a week.

Without a pressure cooker it probably takes three or four hours to get tender so the skin slips off.

The only good thing about the invasion of illegal mexicans is that WalMart always carries beef tongue. 

Before the mexicans came swarming in it was hard to find without going to a custom butcher.

I think tongue is a little like squirrel brains. If you don't learn to enjoy it as a child you'll probably never acquire the taste.

As Reuben Cogburn said, "I'd pay three dollars for a pickled buffalo tongue."

[obumazombie]

As Reuben Cogburn said, "I'd pay three dollars for a pickled buffalo tongue."

No relation to Rooster.

[Charles Henrickson]

I grew up in the most Jewish neighborhood in the city of Chicago, so I have much experience with the cuisine, of which I am very fond. One of my favorite items (as others here have also mentioned) is lox on a bagel, with cream cheese, a slice of bermuda onion, and capers. Yum! Also, challah bread is very good. I grew up down the alley from a Jewish bakery, and in the summer, with my bedroom window open, even the smell wafting in of the baked goods baking was enjoyable!

[obumazombie]

Jim Carrey likes spicy matzah balls...


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecH8tgass1A[/youtube]

[Chris_]

I grew up in the most Jewish neighborhood in the city of Chicago, so I have much experience with the cuisine, of which I am very fond. One of my favorite items (as others here have also mentioned) is lox on a bagel, with cream cheese, a slice of bermuda onion, and capers. Yum! Also, challah bread is very good. I grew up down the alley from a Jewish bakery, and in the summer, with my bedroom window open, even the smell wafting in of the baked goods baking was enjoyable!

My aunt was from the Bronx.  She was buried as a Roman Catholic, but was an honorary Jew her entire life.

She was 83 when she passed and people from her elementary school showed up in DC for her funeral service.

[Karin]

I'm sorry, but sweetbreads mixed into scrambled eggs?  I think I'm turning green around the gills...

[obumazombie]

I'm sorry, but sweetbreads mixed into scrambled eggs?  I think I'm turning green around the gills...

They're not sweet, and they're not breads. A nominee for the worst named food ever.

[IassaFTots]

They're not sweet, and they're not breads. A nominee for the worst named food ever.

With ya buddy!  I did have smoked salmon, cream cheese on an English Muffin today.  Guess that makes me Scottish? 

[Dori]

I'm sorry, but sweetbreads mixed into scrambled eggs?  I think I'm turning green around the gills...

Doesn't sound appealing to me either.  I don't even know what part of the animal they come from.

[Big Dog]

Doesn't sound appealing to me either.  I don't even know what part of the animal they come from.

Dori,

It's calf, lamb, or pig pancreas.

[franksolich]

Dori,

It's calf, lamb, or pig pancreas.

Oh.

I thought it was their testicles.

[Big Dog]

Oh.

I thought it was their testicles.

I have seen the word used to describe testicles and thymus glands, too. Like a lot of culinary terms, it's an imprecise word.

[GOBUCKS]

I have seen the word used to describe testicles and thymus glands, too. Like a lot of culinary terms, it's an imprecise word.

I've never heard "sweetbread" applied to any part of the animal but the thymus gland, and I've never had it anywhere outside Europe.

Like nearly everything else in Europe, it wasn't good.