What is your favorite Jewish Food?

Are there any matzos still alive in the wild, or are they all in captivity now?
 
I've done a few seders and the "traditional" foods are always a hit and I'll always prefer kosher hot dogs to any other!

Matzah ball soup made by a REAL Jewish Grandmother! Come to think of it, ANYTHING made by a REAL Jewish Grandmother...
 
Just like when I was a kid in Washington Heights, there was corned beef and cabbage in a restaurant and there was corned beef and cabbage cooked at home by my friends' mothers.

For years, I felt no one cooked stuffed cabbage and stuffed pepper like my grandmother and my mother. When I was stationed in Turkey, we went on a trip, and stopped at a roadside diner. Most of the guys were afraid to eat the food. :)

They had two huge stainless steel vats filled with gravy. In one, stuffed cabbage, in the other, stuffed tomato. I got two of each, and a chunk of their excellent bread. Not only as good as, but practically identical to my family's stuffed cabbage.

You make me hungry with all this talk. I just fixed up a bowl of potato with sauteed sliced onion and mushrooms.
 
Chopped liver with onion and mustard on marbled rye, or slice of pumpernickle and slice of light rye (if they dont have marbled rye).
 
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. :)
 
Evolute said:
schwamarai
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I think you mean this, Mike, and it for SURE ain't Jewish food, but I like it too:


After cooking, the meat is shaved off the stack with a large knife, an electric knife or a small circular saw, dropping to a circular tray below to be retrieved. Shawarma is most commonly eaten as a fast food, made up into a sandwich with pita bread or rolled up in lafa (a sweet, fluffy flatbread) together with vegetables and a dressing. Vegetables commonly found in shawarma include cucumber, onion, tomato, lettuce, eggplant, parsley, pickled turnips, pickled gherkins, cabbage, and in some countries, such as Jordan, Israel, or the United Arab Emirates, french fries.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
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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Your not kiddin!:thumbup:
 
As a member of The Tribe, I'll put in my two cents:

1. Corned beef on rye
2. Chopped liver with onions
3. Matzah ball soup
4. Brisket
5. Smoked whitefish (the whole fish)
6. Kippered salmon
7. Bagel with cream cheese and lox (it's lox, NOT smoked salmon)
8. Rugelach
9. Hamantashen
10. Half-sour pickles (from a barrel)

Oh, man. Now I'm hungry.
 
Guyon said:
Are there any matzos still alive in the wild, or are they all in captivity now?
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There are a few in the wild, but they are a protected species. There are a number of kibbutzim (plural of kibbutz) that raise them for slaughter, but the market, aside from the Passover season, is kind of iffy. threads like this give the matzo-marketing people a ray of hope.
 
Kohai999 said:
I think you mean this, Mike, and it for SURE ain't Jewish food, but I like it too:


After cooking, the meat is shaved off the stack with a large knife, an electric knife or a small circular saw, dropping to a circular tray below to be retrieved. Shawarma is most commonly eaten as a fast food, made up into a sandwich with pita bread or rolled up in lafa (a sweet, fluffy flatbread) together with vegetables and a dressing. Vegetables commonly found in shawarma include cucumber, onion, tomato, lettuce, eggplant, parsley, pickled turnips, pickled gherkins, cabbage, and in some countries, such as Jordan, Israel, or the United Arab Emirates, french fries.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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Hi, STeve,

No, I don't mean shawarma. I'm referring to an Eastern European Jewish dish. Basically, you fry mushrooms and onions in butter (not schmalz, or else the dish won't be kosher), then mix them with sour cream.
 
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Esav Benyamin said:
You make me hungry with all this talk. I just fixed up a bowl of potato with sauteed sliced onion and mushrooms.
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Evolute said:
schwamarai
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Evolute said:
Hi, STeve,

I'm referring to a Eastern European Jewish dish. Basically, you fry mushrooms and onions in butter (not scmalz, or else the dish won't be kosher), then mix them with sour cream.
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Sounds good to me! :D
I used olive oil instead of butter and sour cream would have been good with it.
 
Olive oil sounds good too. :thumbup:

Kugel is another fave I haven't seen mentioned.
 
I used to pick up kugel -- kigel! -- in the street in lower Manhattan, outdoor stands. Now I see flea markets but not so much food.
 
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