Made kugel for breakfast today.

[conuly]

Jenn laughed when I first said I wanted to, and said it was just so strange (in the good way) to randomly decide I wanted to make this dish I'd never had before from a cuisine that is no part of our cultural heritage. But I wanted to make it for pretty much the same reason I want to make grits, because its fun to try something I've read about but never eaten. (Within reason. Balut may intellectually be no different from eating eggs or chicken, but I don't think I want to try it anyway, no matter HOW much I read about it!)

It came out pretty well, though I had to fiddle with the recipe somewhat because all the recipes made about 3 times as much kugel as I thought we could reasonably eat. As it is, cutting the recipe down to 1/3 still made twice as much as we ate!

The nieces were picky about it, though, something that has been happening more and more at mealtime, so we had to talk to them a bit about not being rude and refusing to try something you haven't had before, or claiming sight unseen that a new food (one that you had said smelled good before you heard it wasn't pancakes!) couldn't possibly be good, or picking at food at the table. They took the lecture pretty well, though, so that's good.

If you're an American citizen, and haven't voted yet, get out and do so!

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, what's not to like about kugel for breakfast; it's like Jewish cheesecake - admittedly slightly weird due to the noodles, but the world is full of weird noodle recipes, and a lot of them are very tasty.

Good for you for having the talk! Your nieces are getting too old to still take food for granted, or disrespect the efoort of the person who made it for them. There's a lot of people out there living on stale bread and ramen noodles. There's a lot who'd be grateful to have even that much. Nobody is entitled to fresh home-cooked meals served by someone who loves them.

*sigh* I hate this voting a straight Democratic ticket. It feels like a mockery of Democracy, that it doesn't even matter who the candidates are, because I'm not actually voting for any of them; I'm only voting against the Republican Party.

[conuly]

Well, I always take the time to check out the policies just in case I like the other guy better and... No, I still don't.

Honestly, the one change I'd like to see in our election system is to allow us to pick as many candidates as we like per ballot. That would help an awful lot to break the insane two partiness of our system.

[old-cutter-john.livejournal.com]

I didn't know what balut was until I read your post and looked it up. I think I liked it better that way.

No election here in Nevada. No write-ins when we do have an election, either. But we have two weeks of early voting when there is an election, so the mad rush and long lines don't happen. We have initiative and referendum too, with a Constitutional provision that the legislature isn't allowed to tamper with a law passed by the people.

[conuly]

"I didn't know what balut was until I read your post and looked it up. I think I liked it better that way."

You have only yourself to blame, you know :p

Nobody is running for any office at all where you are? I can't imagine that happening any year around here! Must be peaceful.

[old-cutter-john.livejournal.com]

Nobody is running for any office at all. No public questions either. I arrived here in 1989, and I think I've seen only two elections in odd-numbered years. Saves money. It's still not peaceful though. Take a look at the online edition of the local newspaper (http://www.reviewjournal.com/) and you'll get the idea.

":p"

You'd like the Icelandic thorn. :þ

That's spelled Alt+0254, if you have a numeric keypad.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Nobody's running for any office here either--we had some unopposed town council-type positions on the ballot, plus some initiatives. We have to vote at home and pay for our own [expletive] stamps to mail it in, though.

I tried kugel some time back and I just can't be having with sweet noodles. I ate it, so as not to waste (cf. ellenbarathi's comment) but I haven't made it again.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Does America not have such a thing as Freepost? (Where postage has already been paid by the recipient - either a pre-printed envelope, or you write FREEPOST and the account number on the envelope if using your own envelope. For example, if I lose my work ID/pass there are instructions on the back telling the finder that they can send it back freepost.)

And if it does have such a thing (under whatever name) then why on earth is it not used for postal votes!?* Surely that's one of the most basic applications of it. Voting should be easy and cheap.

*Obviously I'm aware you didn't come up with this policy. But I wondered if there's an official justification.

[conuly]

More for me, then!

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Oh man I've been longing for kugel lately! I have my great-grandmother's recipe but I'm scared of the smell and taste stirring up memories.