Still, the story she made up to go with the photo was golden. Posted by Traceria (Member # 11820) on :
The funniest thing about that is that it is in the oven...completely decorated. If only cakes came out that way after only having to pour batter in a pan. Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
That's not a wreck at all.
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
Uch. Why would i want to eat that baby after someone put cake all over it?
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
I don't think it's in the oven. I'm guessing it's on storage racks at a bakery. The wires are white (I've never seen painted oven racks), and they look too thin. Also, they seem too far apart.
Posted by Traceria (Member # 11820) on :
quote:Originally posted by Brinestone: I don't think it's in the oven. I'm guessing it's on storage racks at a bakery. The wires are white (I've never seen painted oven racks), and they look too thin. Also, they seem too far apart.
Oh man, you know, I think you're right. I saw that reflection (camera?) and took it in as an oven light. *snap*
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: That's not a wreck at all.
Well, that answers my question about your new, very disturbing, GC avatar.
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka:
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: That's not a wreck at all.
Well, that answers my question about your new, very disturbing, GC avatar.
Wait, what? How come I can't see any avatars? I didnt even know this board HAD avatars!
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
This board doesn't.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
That's freaking awesome. (Would lick frosting off toys).
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
quote:Originally posted by romanylass: (Would lick frosting off toys).
This!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My four year old said, "Mommy, why did they put that toy baby in the cake? It is a toy baby?"
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
I don't usually read the comments on Cake Wrecks, but I did - out loud - and my 22-year-old niece and 13-year-old daughter were in the room. Then they started making comments and pretty soon everything was funny.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Originally posted by Armoth:
quote:Originally posted by rivka:
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: That's not a wreck at all.
Well, that answers my question about your new, very disturbing, GC avatar.
Wait, what? How come I can't see any avatars? I didnt even know this board HAD avatars!
Thank you. Now I have it ad-blocked at home too. Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:(Would lick frosting off toys)
Careful who you mention that to.
Especially around here.
::looks around nervously::
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by Armoth: Uch. Why would i want to eat that baby after someone put cake all over it?
Wait--when did you convert to Mormonism?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Are we going to have the Jews-eat-babies-too conversation AGAIN?
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Are we going to have the Jews-eat-babies-too conversation AGAIN?
Jews eat babies TOO? I didn't know another religion was accused of eating babies...
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
We certainly would never dream of offending Jews by suggesting that only Mormon's eat babies.
Jews are the original baby eaters, we are only able to feebly imitate your extraordinaryness.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Hi! Welcome to Hatrack! Where the Mormons and the Jews all eat babies, and all have horns.
But not jello "salads". We leave that to the Mormons. >_<
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
In all seriousness, does the "baby eating Mormon" meme exist outside of Hatrack, GC, and sake?
Posted by Achilles (Member # 7741) on :
I think it exists on Entropical Island as well.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Yes.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Hi! Welcome to Hatrack! Where the Mormons and the Jews all eat babies, and all have horns.
But not jello "salads". We leave that to the Mormons. >_<
And we gladly leave all the gefulte fish to you.
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit:
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Hi! Welcome to Hatrack! Where the Mormons and the Jews all eat babies, and all have horns.
But not jello "salads". We leave that to the Mormons. >_<
And we gladly leave all the gefulte fish to you.
Hah! Don't knock Jewish food till you tried it...Commercialized Geflite Fish is gross. You should taste the ones my Grandma makes from scratch...
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
At least we don't eat lutefisk. We leave that to the Scandinavians and Lutherans.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
I've had gefilte fish. I can believe the ones your grandmother makes from scratch are better that the commercialized ones, it would be hard for them to be any worse. The commercialized ones have a consistency that is very gelatinous, which is what prompted my response to rivka.
I should also add that my mother can make a really excellent jello salad. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: At least we don't eat lutefisk. We leave that to the Scandinavians and Lutherans.
Scandinavians? Even the Swedes and the Danes I know won't touch lutefisk. Its a Norwegian thing.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by Achilles: I think it exists on Entropical Island as well.
Maybe, but the scoundrels who frequent that place aren't really worth counting, are they?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
They're not capable of counting.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: At least we don't eat lutefisk. We leave that to the Scandinavians and Lutherans.
I'm Lutheran, and I won't eat lutefisk. Or Tuna Hot Dish ( which was served at my church just last week).
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: They're not capable of counting.
Exactly Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Lutherans have the jello salad tradition, too. I've seen lemon jello with onions and carrots in it. Bleh.
--Mel
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My grandma makes orange jello with carrots and pineapple. That's actually really good.
She's from Kansas. I've heard it's a midwestern thing too.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
It might a descended-from-Scandinavians thing.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
quote:My grandma makes orange jello with carrots and pineapple.
Waaaait a minute!
Oh, it turns out canned (cooked) pineapple doesn't dissolve gelatin.
Carry on.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Jarred gefilte fish is an abomination before me. (But my kids like it. Go figure.) The cooked stuff, whether homemade or from the frozen loaves, is really not even comparable.
And I have tried several varieties of jello salad. This is me knocking them anyway. Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
You could have tried hundred of varieties of jello salad, without trying the better stuff made by my mom.
I've had both bottled gefilte fish and homemade stuff made by a Jewish friend (both years ago before I was diagnosed with celiac disease so I could actually eat the stuff). The homemade was definitely superior to the bottled stuff, but still not something I'd ever seek out or something I regret not being able to eat any more.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
While gefilte fish can contain gluten, it certainly need not do so. The stuff for Passover doesn't.
And it can be an acquired taste.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
Isn't the stuff for passover made with matzo meal? All the commercial stuff is.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Depends on the brand. Quite a bit of the commercial stuff is not, but if all you see is Manishewitz and Strauss, you might think otherwise.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
Every recipe I've been able to find for gefilte fish uses either matzo meal, flour or bread crumbs, all of which contain gluten. What do the "gluten free" gefilte fish use instead?
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
I've never had a jello salad. Didn't even know that was possible...
My favorite Jew-food would probably be potatoe kuggel, or perhaps cholent, both of which are faaaar superior and probably way more common than gefilte fish.
I'd be willing to try this..."Jello Salad"...wonder where I could find some...
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:I've never had a jello salad. Didn't even know that was possible...
Jello salads are not salads.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:I'd be willing to try this..."Jello Salad"...wonder where I could find some...
Utah.
[ January 23, 2009, 11:08 AM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I don't know what that means.
I mean, I do know what it means, but I am not sure if it is a reference, an invocation, a summoning, or a non sequitur. Probably not the last. My money is on the third.
For all the jokes about jello salads, I ate a lot more of them as a kid. I don't think I've actually had one for years. Wait - no. Never mind. There was one at Christmas that no one ate because the cook insisted on including fruit because it is more festive, but the jello-eaters (my brothers) won't eat jello if it has anything in it.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Every recipe I've been able to find for gefilte fish uses either matzo meal, flour or bread crumbs, all of which contain gluten. What do the "gluten free" gefilte fish use instead?
Potato starch, presumably.
And Armoth, potato kugel is nasty. We hates it, my precious.
Cholent, OTOH, can be quite nice.
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
Kugel is nasty? That's insane! Rivka, you can come over for shabbos and change your mind. Bring your family, itt'l be a party.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
No, kugel is yummy. Potato kugel is nasty.
And sir, better men (and women!) than you have attempted to change my mind on this. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Sorry, kat--I intended my post to come immediately after Armoth's, but with Porter's post between ours mine did seem like a non sequitur. I've edited to make it clearer what I was responding to.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: No, kugel is yummy.
You have to watch your punctuation. Obviously what you meant to say was:
quote:No kugel is yummy.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I watch my punctuation quite carefully. Occasionally it does tricks!
I said what I meant, and meant what I said. A good lokshen kugel is marvelous. Broccoli kugel can be quite tasty. And carrot kugel is usually good and occasionally transcendent.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
I've never had a kugel that would qualify as even mediocre.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
How sad for you.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
So I'm guessing kugel is some kind of food, right?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
O_o
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Isn't it a type of shillelagh?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:For all the jokes about jello salads, I ate a lot more of them as a kid. I don't think I've actually had one for years.
Same here. We had them all the time when I was a kid, but I haven't seen one in years.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: Isn't it a type of shillelagh?
You spell "cudgel" funny.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
The yiddish word "kugel" comes from the german word for cannon ball or bullet. In yiddish it refers to a baked dish, sort of a casserole, baked pudding or what might get called "pie" in Trinidad. It is a very common part of the Sabbath meal since it can be prepared ahead of time and eaten cold. Typical recipes include eggs, sour cream, cheese and some starchy base like noodles, potatoes or matza. They can be either sweet or savory.
It is speculated that "kugel" got its name because it was originally baked in a round pan, like the Austrian "Gugelhupf" (same word origin). Kugel today are however most commonly baked in rectangular pans. I suspect the name "cannon ball" may never have had anything to do with shape, but may arise from the way some of the less inspired and denser varieties feel when they are sitting in your stomach.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
A kugel served on Shabbos almost never has dairy ingredients. And it is usually served warm Friday night, and either warm or cold at lunch.
Also, most kugels I know (unless cooked in very large quantities) are cooked in round pans.
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
I have a friend who grew up Orthodox but kinda wandered away from that...The only thing he misses is kugel....
Rivka, my mom makes Kugel that pretty much taste like latkes. Judging from your latkes enjoyment previously stated in other threads, I dunno...we may just be the ones to convert you...
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Nope. I've had that variety of kugel.
I like my latkes thin and crispy. Kugel isn't either. Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
Potato kugel is the only kind I like - go figure. I also loathe all Jewish fish, except for lox. Gefile fish is like the Spam of fish to me and that's actually how I describe it to people who ask me what it is. I explain cholent as Jewish chili.
Growing up in the South has probably made my palate less Jewish than it would otherwise be. It's certainly less Jewish than my husband's family, who can eat herring by the pound and adore something called "whitefish and pike balls." Yet they're horrified by something as delicious as fried dill pickles (which I am trying to get included in our shul's Jewish Food Festival).
How did the discussion get from a truly horrific cake wreck to kugel?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Baby cake to baby eating to jello salad to gefilte fish to kugel.
Not much of a stretch at all.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
I'd hit that.
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
Wow, you're hitting everything today.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Don't make me hit you.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Baby cake to baby eating to jello salad to gefilte fish to kugel.
Not much of a stretch at all.
I don't know a characteristically jewish food that I actually like... I'm trying to think. IS there something that's really common, and jewish, and I just don't know it is? Because so far your list of foods is not appetizing to me. I was raised on a cross between California mexican, chinese, and midwestern food.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
Bagels. Chicken soup. Challah.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Don't like it. Hate it. Don't know what it is.
Posted by Minerva (Member # 2991) on :
I know someone whose favorite food is the gefilte fish jelly from a jar. That said, no fish should ever be in a jar. Period.
As for kugel, there are so many kinds that I think it would be very difficult to dislike all types. Unless you don't like eggs. I tried to make one with just egg whites for someone with some dietary restrictions, and that was really not pretty.
Broccoli and squash kugels here this Shabbos (and tomorrow night). And, yeah, I make almost exclusively pareve kugels.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I made a Jello cake for my family last week. Turns out, they love that sort of thing. They eat it with Cool Whip. Sometimes we call it "Utah treat" or "Mormon treat", because I learned about it from Utah Mormons.
Oricoro: Couscous? latkas?
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
quote:Originally posted by Armoth: MMMmm. My mom makes really good zucchini kugel.
Oricoro: Couscous? latkas?
Couscous? Seriously? The point here is to come up with appetizing foods.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I like couscous. But calling it Jewish food (unless we're talking about Israeli couscous, which is an entirely different thing) is rather a stretch.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: I like couscous. But calling it Jewish food (unless we're talking about Israeli couscous, which is an entirely different thing) is rather a stretch.
I'd say the same thing about falafel and Shwarma. They are pretty widespread throughout the former Ottoman empire so it seems more accurate to call this "Turkish food" than "Jewish food". I sure that you can get them with a Kosher/Israeli twist but that twist doesn't put them even a standard deviation off the mean. I suspect they are traditional foods among the Sephardim communities that were within the Ottoman Empire but I've never heard of them among the Ashkenazim except in Israel.
Since Orincoro is currently living in Prague, it occurs to me that many Ashkenazi Jewish foods are very similar to dishes that are common in Central and Eastern Europe. Are there any Czech dishes you like Orinicoro?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: I've never heard of them among the Ashkenazim except in Israel.
Ashkenazim think of them as "Israeli food", but they're definitely popular among Ashkenazi Jews. Every kosher pizza place offers falafel; many kosher meat restaurants (especially fast-food-type) have shwarma. Even the kosher Subways!
Bagels are Russian in origin; so is lox.
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
That's what I always say. My dad always insists that these food have special spiritual quality - that they are "soul food." I often roll my eyes...
Whatever. So my ancestors ate pickled herring for hundreds of years. It's yummy. ::shrug::
I think the only real Jewish food is Cholent, or Hamim. It's a slow cooking stew specifically designed to cook overnight so that one can still enjoy hot food on the sabbath day.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Sephardim have a couple other cook-at-low-heat-overnight dishes that may be uniquely Jewish as well. Like the Yemenite bread-type dish, jahnoon.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Since Orincoro is currently living in Prague, it occurs to me that many Ashkenazi Jewish foods are very similar to dishes that are common in Central and Eastern Europe. Are there any Czech dishes you like Orincoro?
I can't afford to eat out that much, and when do it is usually Chinese. But I like various kinds of Klobasa, goulash, steak in cream and gravy with raspberry sauce (this is the best Czech dish EVAR), and things like that. Honestly, for having lived here 4 months, I haven't had a meal I didn't like, but I have also had only about 5 or so proper restaurant meals. It sucks too because my current flatmate is a restaurant reviewer who gets to spend 8,000 Kc per meal for two, and she has never once invited me to a review. (8,000 Kc is about 400 USD, which goes A LONG WAY in a Czech restaurant).
Even though my Godmother is Jewish, she never cooked any Jewish foods for us- she doesn't really cook much. I like Czech latkas with goulash, which is the standard dish in any pub/restaurant here. It is just the most simple and best food for drinking beer with.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Oricoro, felafel. Shwarma. Knishes and/or borekas.
We had a lovely carrot kugel last night and today.
:embarassed: You're going to have to tell me what those are in English. Or Czech.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Carrot kugel (although I use soy milk, not oil)
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
I don't think I've had any of them. And knish looks like a crap-ton of work for something that doesn't seem appetizing. I don't ever prepare food that requires more than one step.
And by that I mean, I literally pour the tomato sauce cold out of the can onto a bowl of noodles, stir, and eat. You should see the look on my flat mate's face when I do that.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I can't remember the last time I made knishes (or borekas) from scratch. I buy them ready-made, or frozen and ready-to-bake.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
No, I didn't assume you would, but the video you linked just put me off the idea even more. I don't think I'm a hard enough worker to appreciate Jewish foods.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My dad makes kugelis at Christmas. It's like a Lithuanian version of potato kugel. It has bacon in it. You serve it with sour cream and more bacon. Mmmmm.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, and knishes are delicious. Say that five times fast.
I have to make double batches of falafel now if I want leftovers. A single batch (my recipe makes about 5 dozen) is gone in 20 minutes. My kids INHALE them.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
So you are stocking up on children in case one of them aspirates on a falafel? Now I think I begin to understand you.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
What about pastrami?
Is there anyone who doesn't like pastrami?
(is pastrami sufficiently jewish? *sheepish*)
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
There's a question? Of course it is!
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
So, Orincoro, you like pastrami, right?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: So you are stocking up on children in case one of them aspirates on a falafel? Now I think I begin to understand you.
Falafel (the ones I make) are sufficiently squishy not to be easily aspirated. Now, I've been told I shouldn't give them whole grapes, but they tend to grab things very quickly from a very young age... I am afraid they have seen my family eat and think that if they don't eat quickly enough they won't get any, despite my habit of cooking enough for 10 (regular) people... Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by scifibum: So, Orincoro, you like pastrami, right?
Not particularly.
Perhaps my pallet is anti-Semitic?
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen:
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: So you are stocking up on children in case one of them aspirates on a falafel? Now I think I begin to understand you.
Falafel (the ones I make) are sufficiently squishy not to be easily aspirated.
Squishy foods not easily aspirated? Since When? I've heard that marshmallows are the most common thing on which children choke to death and marshmallows are plenty squishy.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Choking is when the airway is blocked, aspiration is when something (normally a fluid) is actually inhaled into the lungs. Small hard objects are the most easily aspirated things because they encounter less friction. So, it's easier to aspirate something hard, and easier to choke on something soft, I believe.
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
quote:And by that I mean, I literally pour the tomato sauce cold out of the can onto a bowl of noodles, stir, and eat.
I used to do that at college all the time! What's the point of getting another dish dirty? Especially when you're only cooking for yourself!
Now that I've been married for ... ahem ... a while, and cooking for a family, whenever we get lazy and just pour sauce directly out of the jar onto the noodles, we call it "college spaghetti".
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
Cold?
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Hell yes, cold. What are you gonna do, microwave the can? Get real! Take that kind of talk to fancy town, Mr. Fancy Pants McGee Von Imasnob!
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
I meant Jenna.
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
Well, we drain the noodles, then pour the sauce onto them right in the pot and stir it all up together, so it gets heated up warm enough to eat. And it's not like the sauce was refrigerator-cold to begin with. So it's edible.
It's hard for me to overstate how many of my cooking decisions are based on the number of pots I'll have to get dirty. I hate doing dishes. Love one-dish meals.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Shvester!
Posted by scholarette (Member # 11540) on :
Jenna- is there really any other way of making spaghetti?
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
This week on "A Sabbath Meal" they're making gelfite fish. It actually looks pretty good.
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