My dough knot/doughnut/donut dough did not rise overnight. So no sufganiyot for the family get together this afternoon (unless the high end donut place three miles away is open…). But with every failure comes inspiration: I appear to have just invented the Passover donut!
Open thread.
And per tradition:
Mark
You missed “dough nought,” which I believe must be the original expression. Anyway, Happy Chanukah.
Corner Stone
I remember the days not so long ago where it seemed like I could eat anything, get a snack later and still be hungry for a full meal after.
Nowadays…*sigh*…
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: Have you considered getting your own stomach pump?//
Miss Bianca
I made mince tarts for a holiday party. Both humans and hounds found them delicious. Note to self: remember – never, ever, EVER turn your back on a kitchen counter when foxhounds are in the house. They will roam said counters and knock everything to the floor and call on all the other four-foots to feast on whatever they find, the froward wicked omnivorous dogs! Happy Xmas/Hanukkah to all!
Adam L Silverman
@Mark: Or, at least in this case, the accurate descriptor.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: I miss the good mince tarts I used to get when I lived in Scotland.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: I am making more today….however, I don’t think they will ship to Florida very well!
Busy day today: snow plowing (4 inches of snow!) in my dashing new tartan scarf from sis, baking, and binge-watch of “Lord of the Rings” with mulled cider!
cmorenc
@Miss Bianca:
I once made tarts wince at holiday parties, with my pathetic attempts at pickup lines.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: Its going to be awful uncomfortable if you’re snow plowing in just a scarf…
TaMara (HFG)
Nothing says Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah like big-footing! Sorry about that Mr. Silverman. <3
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: That may do something about the volume but not sure it would do anything to restore the appetite.
Corner Stone
@cmorenc: And obviously, you haven’t lost a step in that regard.
Hungry Joe
Little-known Hanukkah fact: The four letters on the dreidel stand for “(a) great miracle happened there” — “Nes (miracle) gadol (big) haya (happened, was) sham (there),” thus the letters Nun, Gimmel, Hay, and Shin. But in Israel, dreidels are a little different: The letters are Nun, Gimmel, Hay, and … PEY, standing for “(a) great miracle happened HERE (PO).”
But no matter where you are, games of dreidel don’t last very long because 1) dreidel gets old fast, and 2) everybody always eats up the nuts and chocolate you use to bet with.
SiubhanDuinne
Chappy Chanukkah, Adam and everybody! And Merry Christmas! And a Joyous Whatever Else you may celebrate at this time of year!
Adam L Silverman
@TaMara (HFG): Just call me Dr. Doormat!
schrodingers_cat
@Adam L Silverman: Naked shoveling seems to be the extreme version of naked moping.
schrodingers_cat
Happy Christmas, Merry Hanukah! I made some Diwali treats for Xmas because I was in the midst of a move during Diwali. Our guest from Delhi, bought us a plaster of Paris baby Ganesha, which I have installed next to the pellet stove. My contribution to the War on Christmas!
Elie
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Kwansa and to all my friendshere at BJ. Its been so important to lurk here and occasionally comment but most of all to hear your thoughts and your hearts too. I wish you and us all a better New Year than I fear that we will have. Through it all I hope to provide support to those who need it, to receive yours as well as giving and receiving a kick in the pants from time to time :-)
You guys are the best!
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@cmorenc: *golf clap* Well played.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Corner Stone: You too.
Gravenstone
@Adam L Silverman: But highly entertaining.
amygdala
Oh, that sign… too funny.
Sorry about the deadbeat yeast. Did it bubble up initially? Or was it not warm enough (or too warm) afterwards? Fussy little critters. All we’re asking them to do is reproduce and make a little CO2. Sheesh.
I just boxed up a bunch of cookies to take to my cousin’s place tonight, wrapped the gifts for the kids, and decided what wine to take with. Now just have to chop and massage the kale for the salad I was asked to bring.
Happy/Merry whatever everyone is celebrating (or not) today. Especially in these tough times, I am grateful for this place.
hilts
@Adam L Silverman:
Adam,
Many thanks for all of your great posts over this past year. The Maskirovka posts, in particular, have been extremely informative and insightful.
Have a Happy Hanukkah and a Happy, Healthy New Year!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Happy Day everyone. Thanks for being my imaginary friends. Mr. Q once told somebody I was “having coffee with one of her imaginary friends” and the person (I can’t remember who) was quite confused.
GregB
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah one and all. Thanks to John Cole, Adam and the rest.
zhena gogolia
Shana tovah, Adam
schrodingers_cat
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): We are very much real, I have even met a couple of commenters IRL too.
NotMax
Unleavened donuts. Birth of a new tradition.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: when I lived in Scotland people would, from what I’ve been told, vacuum naked.
Mel
@Miss Bianca: Also, collies! Within a span of 3 minutes, while its unsuspecring human takes a phone call, a collie can: leap over the 5 foot high safety gate that is supposed to keep doggies out of danger from splattering oil while humans fry chicken on the stove, leap onto countertop, drink a half cup of cold vegetable oil out of a cast-iron skillet, sample the washed carrots and snap beans, and leap jauntily back over the safety gate with a 2.5 pound bag of flour carried in his mouth as a gift for his best buddy, a significantly more earthbound Lab.
He was so clever about it that the only thing I noticed was that the veggie bowl looked slightly less full than I thought it had been (maybe hubby snuck a nibble before heading to the store?!? thought I), and I couldn’t figure out where I had set the premeasured flour.
Collie and Labby just beamed at me with beatifically innocent expressions. Would never have suspected what had happened if it hadn’t been for a spectacularly technicolored and revoltingly greasy vomit that occurred (during dinner, right by the table, of course) courtesy of our collie. We only figured out that he had pirated the bag of flour back over the safety gate when we found the (empty,toothmarked) bag carefully hidden under a sofa cushion.
When he wasn’t busy being a house pirate, he was a therapy dog who loved to support the kiddos I worked with and spent his Saturdays visiting his human friends at an assisted living redidence. Best boy in the whole world. Miss him every day.
Adam L Silverman
@amygdala: they did initially go to work on both the lukewarm milk and the teaspoon of sugar
Adam L Silverman
@hilts: thank you and a happy holiday of your choice to you as well.
Denali
To all Balloon Juices, Front Pagers, and especially our grumpy but lovable host, thank you for the insights, humor, and entertainment in 2016. It helped make a year with a bad ending bearable.
Adam L Silverman
@GregB: thanks and have a happy holiday to you as well!
Adam L Silverman
@zhena gogolia: and to you as well. I always thought Shana Tovah would be a good name for a Jewish adult entertainer.
zhena gogolia
@Adam L Silverman:
Would Tovah Feldshuh sue her?
NotMax
A question pondered down through the ages: Why is candy Hanukkah gelt made of the world’s crappiest chocolate?
Adam L Silverman
@zhena gogolia: I don’t think so.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: tradition!
JanieM
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Made me laugh out loud.
Happy whatever-day-you-want-it-to-be to everyone. After gloom and rain yesterday here in central Maine, we’ve got brilliant blue sky on a still-white landscape today. Cheering!
Which reminds me of a line from a Wendell Berry poem (“Mad Farmer Liberation Front”): Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
Divine Chocolate Co asked themselves that question and solved it. You’re welcome.
Skepticat
I love the sign. In New England, Christmas is often referred to (at least by my Jewish friends) as Jewish Ski Day, as there aren’t many gentiles on the slopes.
satby
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): We’re not imaginary.
Felonius Monk
Oh, Wow. Matzo Donuts? aka Donuts of Affliction.
OTOH, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and Happy Festivus to all who care.