Happy Hanukkah! It’s the third day of the holiday and the second full day. It ends at sundown on Friday, and it’s a time to eat latkes.
I adore latkes, but they’re too laborious to make, so I almost never get them. (Trader Joe’s has frozen ones, but they’re dire.) Here we have two gangstas showing us how to make them properly.
This is pretty damn funny, though there’s one mistake. You never put both sour cream and applesauce on a latke. You’d have to be a meshugana to do that! The proper way is to put sour cream on one latke and applesauce on another, alternating to your taste, and until you’re sated.
(This duo has several other videos, too, including one for Passover.)
h/t: Moto
I also alternate sour cream and applesauce on latkes, never both in one.
We were too lazy to make them this year and instead made banana muffins with pecans and chocolate chips and take-out orange duck and crab fried rice from a Thai restaurant.
These guys remind me of my favorite YouTube cooking channel, Regular Ordinary Swedish Mealtime. Somewhat slower-paced, though.
Happy Hanukkah, Jerry. Did you get my gift for Coynezaa?
Is it the six-legged ox? I got a lovely plush animal but there was no indication of who sent it.
Yes. I’m relieved it didn’t go astray. I had emailed you that Amazon tracking said it was delivered. Maybe the email went to your spam folder? Appa the flying bison, known for his wisdom among other traits, is one of my favourite plushies. If you don’t know about Appa, read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appa_(character)
No, I didn’t receive an email. I found Appa myself by Google imaging six legged ox or something like that, and was very pleased to find it, and also see that it might have been modeled on the Catbus in My Neighbor Totoro, my favorite vehicle in one of my favorite movies. Many thanks! I found it outside my office door this a.m.; delivery goes to another part of the University and delivery to our department is often very slow.
Appa is now sitting on the headboard of my bed. Thanks again.
You’re most welcome, PCC(E)! I hauled out the cherished stuffed toys belonging to my kids and put them in the windows of my house (all others had been steam-cleaned and donated). They provide a bit of company and the neighbours get a kick of them.
I do have 2 problems with the video – too many gratuitous mo-fo expletives (I mean, wtf is up with that?!) and the latkes were overbrowned.
I have to respond about applesauce, sour cream and latkes. IMHO, a schmear of applesauce topped by a blob of sour cream is the ideal latke topping. And the video made me laugh out loud.
This has the potential to rival the latke vs. hamentashen debate we have every year at the University of Chicago. An ancillary debate: sour cream or applesauce? I’ll try your suggestion once, but I’m dubious!
Try to have an open mind, Jerry! I’d love to invite you for homemade latkes with homemade and homegrown apple and pear sauces, but you’d have to get in your car now to travel to Boulder. But you could meet our two somewhat standoffish cats.
I’d definitely try it once, and of course if I liked it I’d have it again.
Reading the Notable Debates and Arguments section had me nearly rolling on the floor with laughter!
Multicultural appropriation! Ah may faint!
Hilarious! Sent to my old black friend, whose mixed-race daughter is married to a Jewish guy. They’ll love it!
C’mon, boss. Latkes are like pizza or sex — even when they’re bad, they’re still kinda good. 🙂
Agreed on the sour cream and applesauce; I like ’em both, but one latke, one topping.
We do potato pancakes, which are a sister taxon of sorts. I’ve never dared try both on one pancake. Not at our table!
Perhaps frozen before frying. But I have no kop for the subject.
My mother-in-law made a mean latke. But she was Boston-Irish, called ’em puhdahdah-pancakes. 🙂
I remember the first time I went over her house for Thanksgiving dinner, back when I was first dating her daughter. She was running around, overcooking everything (as the Boston-Irish are wont to do), so I asked if there was anything I could do to help.
“Can you mash the puhdahdahs?”
“Sure,” I said. “What’s a ‘puhdahdah’?”
The future missus gave me a hard nudge to the ribs and said, sotto voce: “She’s talking about ‘potatoes.’ Don’t ask; it’s a long story.”
Good thing you didn’t reply, “I already have…” 😉
Just had some Trader Joes latkes yesterday. They definitely aren’t the best.
You can say that again! I’ve rarely had a latke I didn’t like, but these were meh.
I’ll admit that I’ve had worse and I did finish them off. “Meh” is not the bottom end of the scale.
I’ve had Golden Potato Pancakes which are readily available in local supermarkets. I haven’t had them in a while but I remember them as being perhaps a little better than TJ’s. I also once bought Linda’s Gourmet Latkes which were expensive and shipped from New York. They were also pretty bad, especially considering the price. Finally, I’ve made them myself using the Manischewitz mix. They aren’t bad but, due to using powdered potatoes, they have a much finer texture than a proper latke. I guess it is hard to find a good latke unless one makes it from scratch or goes to a good deli.
The last time I had a latke was at Manny’s Deli in Chicago. Not New York, but better than store bought.
Yeah, their latkes are just okay. The good thing is that you get a free one with every corned beef or pastrami sandwich.
I’m very sad not to be having latkes this year, but they’re too much of a patshke for my mother to make when we can’t all celebrate together 🙁
Regardless, I wish everyone a happy Hanukkah and holiday season!
Love this!