What types of Jewish food have you had?

[Behind the Aegis]

http://www.listchallenges.com/jewish-food

I will be honest, there are a few I had never head of, and some I absolutely won't eat, as I tend to be very picky. My favorite, of course, are pickles, except bread and butter, I will eat just about any type of pickle (shut up!).

Mosby in the Jewish Group.

[Betsy Ross]

1. Everything but TONGUE! nt

[JimDandy]

8. Beef Tongue is delicious!

Haven't had it in almost 40 yrs though. Not a Jew but have eaten 17 items on the list.

[hollysmom]

2. considering I worked many years in NY and

my grandfather ran a deli and not all the "Jewish" food is really just Jewish food and most of my friends growing up were Jewish, I have had everything except
Cholent
Tzimmes
Teiglach
Mandelach
Mandelbrodt
Charoset

Of it all, I still love my egg salad sandwiches and blintzes. I make my own Pierogi (Polish style) chicken soup and grandma made Kishka when I was a kid.

Seriously =- black and white cookies Jewish? since when

[Behind the Aegis]

3. I was flabbergasted at the Passover cereal. That made me giggle.

Charoset is usually only eaten at Passover meals, though some will eat it at other times. I freakin' love blintzes, but haven't had any in years!

[elleng]

5. Hey, MY grandfather ran a deli,

in NY, where my father was born, 100 years ago today (almost,) (11-13-13.)

I wonder about the black and white cookies too! And egg salad JEWISH???

[elleng]

4. 43, but please hold the mustard

on the knish!

[Graybeard]

6. SIL's matzo ball soup.

All of the wonderful Holiday meals at my brother's home prepared by my sister-in-law bring fond memories. From the brisket to the bread pudding everything was great but my favorite was always her Matzo Ball Soup.

The matzo balls were as light as clouds and would absorb just the right amount of the delicious broth. Never had any that good any place else.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Matzo ball soup can be difficult to make.

I can actually make it pretty well, light and fluffy balls. I have had some that were like damn stones! There were so heavy. Your SIL's MBS sounds divine!

[eridani]

17. I think that vegan kosher has got to be one of the world's LUMPIEST cuisines

Although matzo rocks certainly can be made non-vegan style as well.

Personal faves are lox and bagels and blintzes.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

9. I've had 44 from that list

Some of them are not specifically Jewish -- My wife comes from a Polish Catholic family, and Pierogi are a staple at her mother's home. Similarly, while my mother is a Jew, she comes from Vienna, and undoubtedly looks at strudel as Austrian, not Jewish. I love knishes, and make them regularly, but would never dream of having them with mustard. Some of them I've never heard of.

[msanthrope]

10. I've had everything on that list. I grew up in NYC. nt

[NJCher]

11. that was fun

Scored 40! I didn't think it would be that high.

Why isn't whitefish salad on there? And that oily fish that's so good? Can't remember the name. Oh, sable!

Now I'm going to be crying for some Jewish deli food. Fortunately I won't have to cry for long--there are some great delis in town and even the supermarkets here have big Jewish food selections.

I used to always have Jewish food on Sunday mornings---lox, cream cheese. chicken livers, whitefish salad, sable, bagels. That was my big weekend treat. Then we would go out for jazz in the afternoon. Memories, sigh, sigh.

Also, I went to a Seder where I had some of the most divine matzoh ball soup ever. The matzoh balls were light and fluffy, as described in a couple posts upthread.


Cher

[surrealAmerican]

12. 49 out of 50.

I don't think I've ever tried babka. Some of these are things I don't like/won't eat, but I have tasted them as a child. Others are things I like well enough to have leaned how to cook myself.

[The empressof all]

15. That Picture looks to me more like Poteca

Babka is easy to make and really can be plain or with raisins. It's just a high risen slightly sweet bread. Like the folks from Seinfeld I kind of like the chocolate chip variety.

If you bake google a recipe. Great way to spend a rainy afternoon.

[Galileo126]

13. It's hard to tell...

I grew up in RI, so the NYC influence was ever-present. We just called it "food". I never much gave it a thought that what we were eating was Jewish or otherwise. Ok, maybe matzo. That's pretty distinctive.

(Sorry, Manischewitz wine wasn't a thing for me, even at the tender age of 13.)

However, I never had matzo ball soup, and I'm dying to try it. My wish is... don't skimp on the schmaltz! My mom makes a good chicken soup (she's a 70-yr old Italian), but always skims off the schmaltz. I say, that is where the flavor is! Always pisses me off.

Like I said, I dunno if it was Jewish food, or just food... we liked what we ate. We never gave it much thought.

But... if there are any recipes to follow... I'm all ears.

-g

[The empressof all]

14. Pretty much everything from the list

But truth be told I think Kishka is a food from the devil. Even the smell makes me want to...excuse myself...LOL. My mother cooked it on Sunday morning and I had to leave the house ..it was that bad.


I'm not a fan of Gefilte Fish from the bottle. Homemade is ok with a bit of horseradish.

And what about Schwarma??? or Falafel??? I guess they aren't traditional American Jewish and more Israeli or Middle Eastern.

As a kid we ate Schmaltz on rye bread with Gribenes on top for crunch...OMG I may need to roast as chicken...but Alas I can get no good Jewish Rye in Seattle...They all pale in the glory of a good loaf of NY Rye with the hard crust and the seeds,.

[Retrograde]

16. Most of them

but since a lot of the dishes shown are standard Eastern European cuisine, maybe tweaked to fit kosher rules, I don't think of them as Jewish food - it's what my Polish grandmothers made. And I worked in Manhattan for a while (this has a very New York feel to it).

However, I'm now wondering if the Carnegie Deli delivers to California...