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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / December 2007Jalapeno Latkes!
For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with cream cheese and jalapenos (it opens your eyes right up in the morning), and this recipe from a New York Mexican restaurant was scrumptious! Potato-Jalapeño Latkes (Pancakes) With Horseradish Crema 2 large russet potatoes, peeled 1 egg yolk 2 jalapeños, seeded and finely chopped 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup matzo meal Olive oil for frying FOR HORSERADISH CREMA: 2 tablespoons freshly grated horseradish root, available at Greenmarket 1/2 cup Mexican crema or sour cream 1 tablespoon rice- wine vinegar 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (1) Using a box grater, coarsely grate the potatoes into a medium bowl. (2) Add the egg yolk, jalapeños, salt, and matzo meal. Mix well, then refrigerate for 5 minutes to allow ingredients to bind. Make horseradish crema by mixing all 4 ingredients together; refrigerate until needed. Remove potato mixture and drain off any excess liquid. Over a medium flame, heat 1/2 cup olive oil in a 10-inch skillet until hot but not smoking. (3) Place 1 heaping tablespoon of the potato mixture in the pan at a time, being careful not to crowd the latkes. Cook until golden brown on both sides, and transfer to a paper-towel-lined plate. Add 1/4 to 1/2 cup of olive oil to pan as needed to complete cooking. Serve immediately with horseradish crema. Makes 16 small latkes, 4 per person. > For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with cream cheese > and jalapenos (it opens your eyes right up in the morning), and this recipe I love jalapeno bagels with jalapeno cream cheese. :) > Potato-Jalapeño Latkes (Pancakes) With Horseradish Crema Now I know what latkes are... sounds delicious!!! > 2 jalapeños, seeded and finely chopped Seeded? Yankees are wusses... ;-) > 1/2 cup matzo meal What is matzo anyway?  SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >> For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with cream >> cheese and jalapenos (it opens your eyes right up in the morning), and [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > What is matzo anyway? Matzo is unleavened bread, like a cracker. Matzo meal is just ground-up matzo, which is what makes a latke a latke. ;) >>> For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with cream >>> cheese and jalapenos (it opens your eyes right up in the morning), and [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Matzo is unleavened bread, like a cracker. Matzo meal is just ground-up > matzo, which is what makes a latke a latke. ;) For those of us who have no hope at all of finding matzo *anything*, what could we use as a substitute? Yowie >>>> For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with >>>> cream cheese and jalapenos (it opens your eyes right up in the [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Yowie Zwieback? >>>> For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with cream >>>> cheese and jalapenos (it opens your eyes right up in the morning), and [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Yowie I'd be willing to bet you can find matzo and matzo meal in most of your grocery stores. It is the very cornerstone of all things kosher. If I remember right, the "bread" comes in a box covered with blue paper and with a white Star of David on it. It was even available in Anchorage when we couldn't find a lot of other things in the stores. I'm sure even in Australia there are quite a few that at least observe the Jewish holidays. Jo >>> Matzo is unleavened bread, like a cracker. Matzo meal is just >>> ground-up matzo, which is what makes a latke a latke. ;) Aren't latkes often made from potato? (You grate raw potato and squeeze the water out of it in a cloth). >> For those of us who have no hope at all of finding matzo *anything*, >> what could we use as a substitute? Couscous, perhaps. > I'd be willing to bet you can find matzo and matzo meal in most of your > grocery stores. It is the very cornerstone of all things kosher. If I > remember right, the "bread" comes in a box covered with blue paper and > with a white Star of David on it. It was even available in Anchorage > when we couldn't find a lot of other things in the stores. I wouldn't count on it. It certainly isn't in our local supermarket - maybe the new Waitrose in Edinburgh, but perhaps not even there. There isn't even a Jewish food specialist in Edinburgh any more; people stock up on kosher stuff from Glasgow. There used to be a Jewish deli not far from the Edinburgh synagogue, but his trade abruptly evaporated when it came out he'd been storing pork in the same freezer as his kosher products. An orthodox Jewish friend of mine used to buy halal meat instead - "wrong prayers but the right process" as he put it. But there's no Muslim equivalent of matzo. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 >>>> Matzo is unleavened bread, like a cracker. Matzo meal is just >>>> ground-up matzo, which is what makes a latke a latke. ;) [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Couscous, perhaps. No, that would be wrong. Let me do a little research, but I think that if you have anything like unsalted saltine crackers, and crushed them up, that would be the closest thing. >>>> Matzo is unleavened bread, like a cracker. Matzo meal is just >>>> ground-up matzo, which is what makes a latke a latke. ;) [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > friend of mine used to buy halal meat instead - "wrong prayers but the > right process" as he put it. But there's no Muslim equivalent of matzo. That answered a question I had. We just got a halal butcher shop in town. We don't have a kosher butcher locally. I wondered when I saw it if the chickens would be pretty much the same as the kosher chickens I used to buy when I could. And if the store would be good for some locals who keep kosher and don't feel like driving to the city to buy meat. Jo >> There used to be a Jewish deli not far from the Edinburgh synagogue, >> but his trade abruptly evaporated when it came out he'd been storing [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > when I could. And if the store would be good for some locals who keep > kosher and don't feel like driving to the city to buy meat. There is a bit in the Koran that says of the Jews "their food is permitted to you, and ours to them"... if there was one thing you can guarantee about the Jews it's that they will hold more divergent opinions about it than you could possibly imagine, but at least somebody will go for it. I don't know why kosher-labelled products are so rare in the UK. It's not that difficult to get the certification (I checked out the procedure for a local food manufacturer a few years ago) and it increases your market share, so why not? ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 >>> There used to be a Jewish deli not far from the Edinburgh synagogue, >>> but his trade abruptly evaporated when it came out he'd been storing [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > the procedure for a local food manufacturer a few years ago) and > it increases your market share, so why not? You would think there at least would be a good market for shelf stable things. Our regular grocery stores even carry kosher coca-cola, at least around the holidays. Its fairly popular with everyone since its made with cane sugar rather than corn syrup. Jo On 10 Dec, 15:56, Jack Campin - bogus address <bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I don't know why kosher-labelled products are so rare in the UK. Huh? I've always been able to buy matzo's. My teacher when I was in junior school introduced them to me and Romford in the early 60's wasn't exactly a place of ethnic diversity but most local shops sold them even after Morris' closed down (the local grocers, which was run by a Jewish family- My first boyfriend (aged about 5) was their son, Morris, yes, Morris Morris, his parents must have hated him!) Today should I fancy matzo crackers (and I often do!) I get them from the shop up the road and I've seen Jewish food in local supermarkets Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > Huh? I've always been able to buy matzo's. My teacher when I was in > junior school introduced them to me and Romford in the early 60's > wasn't exactly a place of ethnic diversity but most local shops sold > them even after Morris' closed down This reminds me of a funny experience I had once. I used to live in a neighborhood of Boston which, although it was quite diverse, apparently didn't have a very big Jewish population. I went into the local grocery store and asked where the matzoh was. They pointed me to the rear of the store, where the dairy section was. This confused me, but I just figured it must be on a shelf nearby. After searching unsuccessfully for several minutes, I went back to the front to ask again. It turned out they thought I was asking for mozzarella cheese! (They did not sell matzoh there, btw.) Joyce >> I don't know why kosher-labelled products are so rare in the UK. > Huh? I've always been able to buy matzo's. My teacher when I was in > junior school introduced them to me and Romford in the early 60's > wasn't exactly a place of ethnic diversity but most local shops sold > them even after Morris' closed down Romford is on the periphery of East London, and that area (up into Essex) is where a lot of people from the heavily-Jewish East End went after getting bombed out in WW2. You'll have had a lot more Jewish neighbours than you knew about. Most of them (like my girlfriend's father who was part of that migration) minimally religious, but dietary habits are always the last to go. > (the local grocers, which was run by a Jewish family- My first > boyfriend (aged about 5) was their son, Morris, yes, Morris Morris, > his parents must have hated him!) His kid brother must have had an even worse time of it at school if they used the old-style English pupils' naming scheme. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 >> (the local grocers, which was run by a Jewish family- My first >> boyfriend (aged about 5) was their son, Morris, yes, Morris [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > school if > they used the old-style English pupils' naming scheme. Douglas Adams didn't do so bad, naming one of his central characters in HHG2G "Ford Prefect", did he? So what's wrong with "Morris Minor"? ;-) (With apologies to readers outside the UK who may not understand the joke). SignatureMatSav >>>>> For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with cream >>>>> cheese and jalapenos (it opens your eyes right up in the morning), [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > I'm sure even in Australia there are quite a few that at least observe the > Jewish holidays. I have never seen matzo. There's not a large Jewish population here, we don't have a synagogue. The closest one is over an hour's drive away, in South Sydney. In comparison we have lots of different Lot sof catholic and protestant churches, and many different Orthodox churches (Greek othordox, Serbian orthodox etc etc) 3 mosques, 2 buddhists temples, 1 hindu temple, and 1 sikh temple that I know of. Oh, and I've never heard of Zwiebeck either. Yowie > I have never seen matzo. There's not a large Jewish population here, we > don't have a synagogue. The closest one is over an hour's drive away, in > South Sydney. > In comparison we have lots of different Lot sof catholic and protestant > churches, and many different Orthodox churches (Greek othordox, Serbian > orthodox etc etc) 3 mosques, 2 buddhists temples, 1 hindu temple, and 1 sikh > temple that I know of. Jews comprise something like 0.3% of the world's population. Outside of the state of Israel, the largest population of Jews in the world is in New York City (no big surprise there, I guess!). I don't know what percentages of the world's population are Christian and Moslem, respectively, but they are much, much greater, obviously. Can't speak to Hindu or Sikh percentages, although Baha no doubt knows the latter. Joyce >> 1/2 cup matzo meal > What is matzo anyway? I'm not sure but I wouldn't want to take its meal away, given how big its balls are. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 >>> 1/2 cup matzo meal >> What is matzo anyway? > > I'm not sure but I wouldn't want to take its meal > away, given how big its balls are. Oh, they come in all kinds of sizes. ;) >> For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with cream >> cheese and jalapenos (it opens your eyes right up in the morning), [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Seeded? Yankees are wusses... ;-) ROFL I don't understand why people think jalapenos are hot. Chipotles are hot. Jalapenos are just so-so. Teeny tiny Thai chillies are extremely hot! >> 1/2 cup matzo meal > > What is matzo anyway? Basically flour and water baked into a cracker-like unleavened flat bread. In the case of matzo meal, it's crushed like breadcrumbs. Jill > >> For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! �I love bagels with cream > >> cheese and jalapenos �(it opens your eyes right up in the morning), [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > ROFL �I don't understand why people think jalapenos are hot. �Chipotles are > hot. �Jalapenos are just so-so. � Why are you rolling on the floor laughing??? Chipotles are simply smoked jalapenos... they're exactly the same pepper... neither is hotter than the other. chipotle chile [chih-POHT-lay] This hot chile is actually a dried, smoked JALAPE�O. It has a wrinkled, dark brown skin and a smoky, sweet, almost chocolaty flavor. Chipotles can be found dried, pickled and canned in ADOBO SAUCE. Chipotles are generally added to stews and sauces; the pickled variety are often eaten as appetizers. � Copyright Barron's Educational Services, Inc. 1995 based on THE FOOD LOVER'S COMPANION, 2nd edition, by Sharon Tyler Herbst. --- > Why are you rolling on the floor laughing??? Chipotles are simply > smoked jalapenos... they're exactly the same pepper... neither is > hotter than the other. I'll bite. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. :) Chipotles *always* are hotter than jalapenos. SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >> For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with cream cheese >> and jalapenos (it opens your eyes right up in the morning), and this recipe [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Seeded? Yankees are wusses... ;-) Jalapeños? Wusses. Habañeros, with "Dave's Insanity Sauce" as dressing. Gives a "hole" new meaning later to "Ring of Fire" :D Signatureannoyed@net.spammers Craig, Kathi & "Cat Five" the tabby girl "One way that you can tell that 'Mythbusters' has been in the area is to look for shrapnel in the trees." - Jamie Hyneman >>> For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with cream >>> cheese [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Jalapeños? Wusses. Habañeros, with "Dave's Insanity Sauce" as dressing. > Gives a "hole" new meaning later to "Ring of Fire" :D Even Joel admits, grudgingly, that Dave's Insanity Sauce is "a bit hot". LOL. I nearly died and I had less than a quarter of a pinky nail's worth. Yowie Men never seem to get the difference between spicy hot and "see how HOT you can make it. I use habenareo (?) for an arthritis rub on cream I made and just getting them ready can burn you even through rubber gloves, I can't imagine actually eating them. >>>> For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it! I love bagels with cream >>>> cheese [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Yowie > Jalape?os? Wusses. Haba?eros, with "Dave's Insanity Sauce" as dressing. > Gives a "hole" new meaning later to "Ring of Fire" :D Yes, well, this is the problem, isn't it? It's not so much the ingress as the egress. :) Joyce On 10 Dec, 00:43, Jack Campin - bogus address <bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: . An orthodox Jewish > friend of mine used to buy halal meat instead - "wrong prayers but the > right process" as he put it. And the reverse is true as well...I used to occasionally frequent an Indian restaurant in Central London (it was where I had my first Indian!) and the chef there used to buy kosher meat because he wasn't too impressed with the hygiene standards in the local halal butchers Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs
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