HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE

[tomturbomatic]

Whether you have had a briss or not, best wishes for the new year 5768. May it be a year of love and joy and blessings, of healing, strength and peace, a year of plenty with the blessings of good weather, sustenance and achievement, a year of closeness among families and friends of longstanding and of welcoming new ones.
Tom

 

[toggleswitch]

If you don' tknow by now don't bother to look down.

Ditto likewise to all in this week where the USA remembers a difficult day in its past and both the Moslem and Jewish communities have important holidays on consecutive days.

As always, Pandora's box is avaialble to anyone and everyone. (PUTANA!) Let's examine it and remember to pull out hope.

 

[peterh770]

Aren't we 2 days away from the holiday yet?

Happiness and prosperity to all!

 

[tomturbomatic]

NO, Wednesday evening after lichtbentshen, all of the fun starts.

Does the HOPE in the Putana's box have a string or chain attached for pulling it out?

Remember in the first Airplane movie when the sign came on:
PUTANA YOUR SEAT BELT ? The only proper way to pronounce that word is the way old women, las viejas, do it, with a spit sound in it.

 

[maytagbear]

Yes,

May you all have a blessed New Year, with peace, health, prosperity, and lotsa appliances.

I have long thought that this was a more sensible time for a New Year than the standard one...changing of the seasons and all.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[toggleswitch]

Pre-Christianity, March was the beginning of the year to coincide with the begininng of spring.

Hence:
October means 8 (8th month instead of today's 10th month)
November means 9
December means 10.

My understanding is that each Ceasar took a day from February and stuck it on to the end of his namesake month to make his month last longer (Julius, Augustus).

This made spring [March] offically (on paper) come faster, which was a good thing!

The date of Christmas is eight days back from 01/01 the traditional initiation ceremony, and what has become our new year. (You figure out why), sets it at December 25. This is close enough to the old Pagan holiday of Yule on 12/22, again to celebrate the solstice, IIRC.

Again just to avoid controversy Emmaunel was born to the Jewish world using the Hebrew calendar which measures time differently anyway, so the exact date of birth (as most today would recognize it) is not generally believed to be known.

I believe the above to be true, so if anyone has any corrections or better information be gentle!

Yule log - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ha_asfan]

Happy New Year!

It's like a fairy tale in action! The 1951 Chambers Stove has chicken soup and matzoh balls cooking, the oven is loaded with kugel, couscous salad is being kept chilled in the 1957 Hotpoint refrigerator...used the Mixmaster, the Waring blender....wemay headed to 5768 but in this house, we're stuck in the 1950's!
Shana Tova l'kulam!

 

[foraloysius]

Shana Tova, best wishes to all!

 

[gyrafoam]

L'Shana Tovah!

 

[kennywhy]

Hello everyone.
Happy, healthy, peaceful (not necessarily in that order ) Jewish New Year greetings to all this may apply to.
And from a line a song from the play "Fiddler on the Roof”,
. . . A blessing on your head.
Ken (kennywhy)

 

[kennywhy]

I hate it when a post gets past me with an error from rushing. That line should read ...from a line IN a song from the play "Fiddler on the Roof”
. . . A blessing on your head.

 

[kennywhy]

I hate it when a post gets past me with an error from rushing. That line should read ...from a line IN a song from the play "Fiddler on the Roof”
. . . A blessing on your head.

 

[gyrafoam]

Thanks Ken!

 

[gyrafoam]

Anyone have a kugel specialty? Savory or sweet? Xtra-krunchy on top?

With a plentiful supply of Vidalia onions from south Georgia, I love to make a savory potato kugel with lots of those onions, well caramelized in shmaltz, some fresh rosemary, (and lots of black pepper---a "suthun thang".)Makes a wonderful companion to roast Lamb.

My momme's momme (bubbe) used to make a faaaaabulous sweet kugel using her fresh homemade egg noodles----cut really thin, tons of fresh grated cinnamon, light brown sugar, honey, butter, sour cream,heavy cream, a dash mandle ta'am, and those plump raisins she soaked in Kirsch liquor. As a child, leftovers of this stuff was the "breakfast of champions" as far as I was concerned.

 

[gyrafoam]

Tom-----

I know you can weigh-in with a favorite kugel "meichel"!

L'Shanah Tova Tikateivu V'Techateimu!
B'Shalom U'Bracha!
-Steve

 

[partscounterman]

Happy New Year!

Best Wishes to all who celebrate. I only remember enough Hebrew from college to know that Rosh Hashanah translates to "Head of the Year".

Good Health and Prosperity to all...

David

 

[tomturbomatic]

Steve and everyone, Thank you for all the beautiful wishes!

My favorite kugel recipe is from a friend, alav ha shalom, whom I met in 1970, right after I discovered other people like me. He made a wonderful PARVE semi-sweet lukshen kugel in a 10 inch Corning Ware skillet that was sprayed with Pam and dusted with Kellogs Corn Flake Crumbs. I have made it and modified it so many times I can't call to mind the orginal, but I loved it at his house and always saved it for dessert with a little sugar sprinkled on top. I think there was applesauce in it and cinnamon for sure. I'll have to try a bit of almond flavoring in mine, too.

Steve, For your potato kugle, do you grate the potatoes or slice them thinly? I get tired of the texture with grated potatos, but I do grate the zucchini & carrots and chop the sweet red peppers. I can't wait to try the rosemary in it.

I am going to bake a honey cake. I use strong tea in it since I don't drink coffee. One year when I made it, it did not fall and the recipe is guaranteed to make a cake that falls--so good and moist.

Shanah tova u'metucha y'all,
Tom

 

[toggleswitch]

~The 1951 Chambers Stove has chicken soup and matzoh balls cooking.

May I request a pic of the cullinary treats?

 

[volvoguy87]

L'Shana Tovah y'all.

I baked some kugel, there is chicken soup, and I ran the table linnens through the A208.
The historic preservation company for which I worked in Savannah suffered from a rare Hawaiian disease called Lac-O-Monay, and wouldn't you know it, it's contageous. I have temporarily had to move back home to the Washington DC area while I try my luck in employment to earn some monay! I had to set up the A208 in the garage with the hose supplying cold water, no hot water available, and draining into a trash can. My folks are just thrilled (note much sarcasm).
Hopefully the coming year will be a good one, filled with employment, suds, bluing, good food, good friends, and hopefully an Apex for Robert.

Now if only someone would do something to improve the taste of Manischewitz kosher wine, yuck!
Dave