are you ready?

[low_delta]

It was recently brough to my attention that not everyone may realize that the Christmas holiday starts next weekend. The 24th is only ten days away.

Get busy, people!

(Yes, Serendipity, I realize that this does not affect you. ;-) )

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[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Who made you the head of the Christmas Police??
*grumble gripe bah humbug*

Ooops we switched roles. I'm the one with the Christmas spirit and you're the one who would love to have it disappear. Remember? ;)

Grinch here

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

THE Christmas holiday is Dec 25th......

(of course, i will be on a plane to Kona on the 22nd with my family and do not plan to be back until the 5th of Jan)

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Actually, it still affects me, just not to the frenzied degree that it affects so many other. But then again, I don't need the warning because I've been busy and I'm all set! (And rather proud of myself for it, too.)

Hanukkah came *really* early this year, and I was all ready with gifts for The Kid, menorah candles, and, for a change, frozen potato pancakes. (I usually get the mix but spotted the frozen ones instead and thought I'd give them a try. Of course the best is making them from scratch, but it means peeling and grating potatoes, which takes too long.) I sent out my last Hanukkah greeting cards yesterday, so with luck even those last few will arrive by the end of Hanukkah. I even mailed a couple gifts in time for Hanukkah. Plus I have plenty of greeting cards left and time to get them out to arrive by the Solstice and by Christmas. If for some reason my mailing of them is delayed, they'll still arrive in time for New Year's (which is probably my favorite holiday). And I do have some Christmas gifts to give, and a birthday gift for a friend of The Kid's whose party is on December 23. So now I'm just avoiding all stores except for my grocery store. :)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. :-)

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[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Best thing about December is potato pancakes. *I could eat a million latkahs.* :) I keep forgetting that there's no law preventing me from making them throughout the year!

[sherahi.livejournal.com]

Martha had someone on from...oh damn. Scandinavia? And they made potatos cakes, very very very thin and very flat and then you fry it and spread butter and cinn/sugar on it. Looked yummy. :) They put the peeled/cooked potatos through a ricer so that the mashed part would be smooth with no lumps which I thought was clever. To that, they added cream and butter and a tiny bit sugar. And then it had to evaporate and chill. I think. And then you added flour to it, and then rooled it out SUPER INSANELY thin, like you can read through it! And they used a stick to run under it and lift it up to cook/brown on the griddle.

Although I keep hearing about jewish potato pancakes, I have no idea how they are made. Are they similar??

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[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Well, we're not that *anal* about our potato pancakes, lol!

Basically the recipe calls for potatoes and onions and eggs (maybe some baking powder, I need to check), fried in oil (to represent the discovery in the destroyed temple of a bit of oil that provided light for a miraculous 8 days). Latkahs are usually served with applesauce and/or sour cream. MMMmmmmm!

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[sherahi.livejournal.com]

Damn, everyone says they are so good. Those sound very savory, while the ones I wrote about seem more like dessert. I need to sample these for myself and will keep an eye out for frozen ones! :)

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[serendipity.livejournal.com]

The frozen ones I had weren't as tasty as the mix, which wasn't as tasty as making them from scratch. But the mix is really really easy, so I recommend it over the frozen kind. Anyway, aren't there any Jewish deli/restaurants in town? They'd probably serve them, at least during Hanukkah, I'd think.

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[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think they're kind of like eating a combination of hash browns and regular pancakes, if you can imagine that.

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[sherahi.livejournal.com]

That helps...

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[serendipity.livejournal.com]

They taste kinda like hash browns with more of the consistency of regular pancakes. Hash brown pancakes!
MMMMMmmmmmmmmm