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So I made just the sweet potato latkes (not the white potato) because...well...I never knew there were THAT MANY SHREDS in one sweet potato.
I made some Sephardic-style meatballs (subtly sweet/sour), egg noodles, and sauteed spinach. I also made applesauce. Kiddo ate about 7 meatballs :wow: (they were made from a 1-ounce disher, but they were loose...still...) and some applesauce. She announced, when I said I was making Hanukkah food, "I don't like latkes." This was before I told her I was making latkes. She stuck to her word and pushed the latke we gave her to the side of her plate.
By the end of the evening, the latkes were gone. The meatballs were nearly gone, and what was left was more like a meat sauce. So, I mixed in the sauce with the remaining noodles and that became dinner the next night.
There was some spinach left, so I threw that in a casserole with some sour cream (left over from the latkes), milk, flour, butter, and a little extra salt, pepper and nutmeg. Topped with breadcrumbs and parmesan, baked at 350 until bubbly.
My Hanukkah cookies looked suspiciously like the red/green M&M brownies and pfefferneusse I brought to Christmas dinner. My dad, Mr. South Beach, ate a pfefferneusse and proclaimed it the best damn pfefferneusse (what's the singular of that?) he'd ever eaten. Cool. (Kiddo: "But it's not Christmas anymore! Pout pout pout." She still gladly ate million of both over several days...)
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