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I'll be honest with you though, I'm not a big fan of kugel! Sweet noodles just don't sit quite right with me. LOL. My mom used to make this for dinner sometimes. I ate it. She used apples not peaches.
It's not particularly for Hanukkah, but it's an easy side dish to make and then reheat-kasha varnishkes.
Jelly donuts are the defacto Hanukkah donut.
You could take a shot at frying knishes. A bit of work. Again not a specific Hanukhah food but it does involve frying in oil. And it's so very, very New York.
Exactly, Coney. Not a "Hanukkah specific"food, but it is a Jewish food. There is a very small Jewish community here, and most people are only familiar with bagels.
I could take jelly doughnuts for desert, but I was asked to take a main course.
Since it's a "covered dish" luncheon, so I can't fry - if I made latkes or knishes at home, they'd be a cold, greasy mess after the service. With the potato kugel, I can re-heat it there, and there are warmers for the various dishes people are taking
The theme of the lunch is Winter Holidays, so someone is taking an Ethiopian stew, someone is taking something for Yule of Solstice, and the pastor thought I might be able to cover Hanukkah. Of course most of the deserts and foods will be Christmas themed.
I'm going to throw in the jelly doughnuts too.
I appreciate all of the help, everyone. I couldn't stop thinking outside of the "Latke Box".
This this thread has me craving Potato Latkes now. Thanks LOL.
Same Lubby. I'm making them tomorrow. Back on The Island, they were so plentiful. I have made them from scratch, but I have to admit to using many of the insanely cheep boxed mixes, and serve it for my kids with applesauce and donuts for desert. They loved that dinner. Balanced meal, sure, I know.
You'd be totally shocked at the price of a box of latke mix here - close to $4!!!!!
Reheated latkes aren't quite as good as fresh, but since you have the ability to reheat a kugel, you'd have the ability to reheat a casserole dish of latkes as well and they are ok reheated. Pretty much any time I've been to a Hanukkah party (which is somewhere above 100 times given my age times a couple of times each year, which is a low estimate), the host/hostess has to pre-cook the latkes in order to be able to serve everyone.
If the idea is to acknowledge Hanukkah as opposed to Judaism in general, I'd stick with a food that is specifically associated with Hanukkah rather than something that is just more generically Jewish.
Latkes don't travel well...but kugel does. I prefer savory.
Hard to go wrong with brisket, too.
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