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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.

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