Best Jewish dishes? and desserts?!
I like blintz for dessert.
Answers: Latkes and kugel are great!
I like blintz for dessert.
You're writing about "Jewish Soul Food":
Take your pick!
When I was a child, just about every Sunday morning we had:
Lox & Bagels w/ the trimmings - cream cheese, sliced tomatoes, onion, cucumbers & black olives. .
Smoked salmon.
"Fishie with the eyes": smoked chub
Smoked sturgeon
At other times we had:
Corned beef, pastrami, salami, potato salad, cole slaw AND 1/2 sour pickles!
Latkes
Kosher hot dogs and knockwurst!
Homemade Gefilte fish with white horseradish
Baked chicken
Chicken soup with homemade matzoh balls.
[I like mine "heavy".]
Roasted brisket with roasted potatores and veggies in the same pan as the brisket.
Kasha & ties.
Carrot tzimmes
Latkes
Buckser
AND A WHOLE LOT MORE!!!!!!!!!!!
Hummentaschen
Dessert: Mom's homemade Apple Cake! THE BEST apple cake I EVER had [or made].
Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed answering it!
VTY,
Ron Berue
Yes, that is my real last name!
Kreplachs!!! The absolute best (meat filled dumpling). Jews don't have a whole lot of dessert recipes, but, coconut macaroons were always a favorite.
Jewish dishes come from the Germans and Polish so they got all their dishes from them.