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The Quintessential Make-Ahead Dessert for Our Favorite American Holiday
Stuffed: Thanksgiving on Hope Street
Last Sunday, my job was to make stuffing for 400 people. I said I’d do it because there’s a part of me that prefers to forget that it’s been 25 years since I was a caterer, and I assumed it would be as easy now as it was then.
For a Thanksgiving seder, it’s all about the ‘hodu’
Sitting down to the well-set table every November, even though it is filled with family and food, I always feel that something is missing — a Jewish connection to the Thanksgiving story.
Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Nov. 22 – 28: Toots Shor, turkey and theater
Tasty Middle Eastern flavors tweak Thanksgiving table
The couple, accustomed to the piquant taste of French, Italian and Middle Eastern cuisine, were unimpressed with the traditional meal\’s relatively bland flavor. They decided to develop a Thanksgiving menu that would reflect their signature style, infusing holiday staples with exotic ingredients like date syrup, wine and dried fruits.
Give Thanksgiving a Jewish Flavor
\”My sister-in-law stuffs Thanksgiving turkeys with a matzah ball mixture,\” says Faye Levy, food columnist and author of 14 cookbooks. \”Instead of making patties and poaching them, she cooks this tasty mixture inside the turkey.\”
This never struck Levy as odd, because her mother used to make noodle pudding on Thanksgiving.
\”Her Thanksgiving dinners were almost like Shabbat meals,\” she says.
One of Levy\’s all-time favorite dishes is Thanksgiving potato kugel with asparagus. \”I first tried it at the home of a friend from Colorado,\” she says, explaining that it was his grandmother\’s recipe.
\”In his family, that dish was the essence of Thanksgiving.\”
Thanksgiving’s Sukkot Roots
Did you know that Thanksgiving is really a Jewish holiday?