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Yes! That's sort of what they looked like! I called my friend whose grandmother served them to us. He said that his grandmother used to hold a grater over a pan of hot oil and rub the dough through the grater to make the little fried dough balls. They were delicious!

skedei-marak is a kind of European Jewish fried bread bit made from matzoh meal, that you serve in soup, i.e. marak. I've had it in the shape of little balls of doughy, crispy fried balls, it was pretty good! I don't know how it's made, but I'd guess it's deep fried. edited by me to add: I once bought these soup crackers by Manischewitz that I thought looked like the skedei I'd been served years before, but they didn't taste anything like the homemade ones.

Picadillo is RETRO??? OhMyHolyVacaFrita, then so is half of the food I eat in Miami, by association! Well, Miami IS RETRO, isn't it?

Yummy blogging, as usual, kudos to you! And, wow, you're saving money now? That's a great bonus, are you actually putting aside the extra do-re-mi? Finally, THANK YOU!

Cherries are 1.49 a pound at the RT 9 Farmer's Markets. Lots of twins, of course, but the flavor is great!

We'll be having vegetable and couscous soup and chocolate pots de creme for dessert. I'm tying to conserve energy for the job and Sundays with kiddle, so cooking has become very simple lately. Shabbat Shalom!

My car ( ) was a clean, well organized haven for me until I recently began a job that entails a LOT of driving. I work in grocery stores, you'd think I could travel WITHOUT food accoutrements, but NO, I've begun to NEED food in the car. It's a mess in the back seat, I tell ya'. I carry a load of flavored waters in 1 liter bottles, packets of raw sugar, apples, and if kiddle is accompanying me, bags of fruit and potato chips of some sort. When we go on real road trips, we carry flavored water, unsweetened drinks, bottled Starbucks Frapuccinos(kiddle is a fan of caffeine and sugar with her milk), packets of raw sugar for me, and, we go completely wonky buying every odd snack imaginable in every shop that we encounter. It's a good part of the charm of a road trip, and the rule is that those foods have a free pass on the junk and nutrition scales.

At Starbucks I always order a decaf Frappuccino with a shot of espresso in it, and a stippling of caramel sauce, yum! Now, if only they had a less fattening whipped cream! I just can't handle the real heavy cream stuff that Starbucks indulges in! I'm a butterfat weakling.

There isn't a 'snack' in existence that I'm not interested in, I'll even try cheese puffs, if pressed.

I am SO dead jealous of your spices and seasonings! I adore Asian flavors, but with the advance of my PA, I can not eat anything remotely delicious. No ginger, garlic, peppers of any kind. Onions? Only cooked. WAHWAHWAH! Please, keep on cooking, and eating those lovely foods! I'm watching and enjoying vicariously!

Salt and vinegar potato chips, yum, I can feel the pucker! My daughter adores ketchup flavored potato chips. I buy them about once a year 'for her', and we both tear through the bag in about a half hour. We both eat sheets of nori by the bagful, we just rip into the squares and chew away until our teeth are green, isn't that grotesque of us? But, the killerdiller KING of all junk food snacks is this Asian food that we used to buy at a Japanese family's Asian market in Miami, and we haven't been able to find it again in years. What might that treat be? Tiny dried crabs, coated in a salty, seaweedy, soy flavored YUMMINESS. Umami to the nth power! I'm so sorry that I have no idea what the stuff is called, and I've never found anyone in any Asian market since who knew what I am talking about.

To me, anything coated in aspic is retro, I remember being served pate in aspic at cocktail parties so many years ago, it's making me feel creaky to count! And also, salmon 'en papillote'. My mother made this, and I haven't seen it in years. Whole milk, I rarely buy it any longer. Hollywood Bread is retro to me, but it's long gone, and so are Hydrox, the ORIGINAL chocolate sandwich cookie. JiffyPop! Oh, my, I remember making that and reveling in the poufing of the foil! We bought some at a 7-11 a few years ago, just to show kiddle what it's like!

We use fruit instead of fats almost exclusively when we bake. Usually the go to ingredient is applesauce. This makes for a very moist cake, even without eggs.

Yay! It's just ducky to see MizDucky blogging! We adore you , and we're glad to hear that you're feeling good wih the new health plan.

My latest deal, a 1960's Heller plastic tray, designed by Vignelli, 50 cents.

I'm no kiddle, and on US1 in Miami there is a gas station that has sold freshly fried chicken for my entire driving life, which is, basically, forever. The present owners are Indian, and they have expanded to sell many interesting items, but the freshly fried chicken remains.

Is this product real or a joke? I can't tell, ever since those shaking salad ads a few years ago. I thought that my boyfriend ad taped an SNL skit to fool me with!

Would you please take MY exhusband out for a meal like that one? I'll pay!

Deborah! These photos of your table, the top covered with delicious food and the chairs holding people to share with, I'm very happy just seeing the visual evidence of such a great meal!

Shabbat Shalom! I've been ill. The job is too physically demanding, and I've had a setback. I had to take this week off, to let my skin grow back a little. Tonight we'll be having turkey meatball soup and a colorful salad of apples, mixed greens, peaches and zucchini, with an apple cider vinegar dressing, for dinner.

Well, they got the content down, with writing in mixed levels of quality. Appropos of a bar guide, I suppose?

I was never a fan of Snapple's regular beverages, that corn syrup thing, you know (I get incredibly ill after ingesting HFCS, or even a spoonful or so of CS). But, I ADORE the Diet Lime Green Tea flavor. It tastes so good, and it's gorgeous! I saw the White Teas at Norkus Foodtown here in Manalapan, NJ, but i didn't even bother to check the ingredients. I'll get some this week, though, if there's sugar in it, I'll be hoping to like it! Man, I've been drowning in sugared beverages the past month or so (KP Coca Cola RULES! ), I've got to stop.

I've been jonesing for a version of the Acropolis for over a year now. Robert Swedroe, a local Miami design powerhouse, uses Snaidero quite often in his condominium projects, to great effect. #1 boy needs to settle us down sometime in the next 6 years, then I'll be seriously considering it. The only problem with these compact kitchens is counter space. I intend to add an extra 'S' counter piece with a dishwasher, an extra cooktop and 2 ovens to my Acropolis design. Plus, I can't stand Italian plumbing fixtures, as a rule, so there will be some change outs from the get go.

The real question is why is this Kelly man focussing his campaign on inane subjects like foie gras when there are so many actually important subjects to discuss? What's he trying to avoid discussing? Vadouvan listed some important subjects in his post, all of which trump this silly issue of foie gras.

I adore my own company, and so, I relish eating alone. Especially in a restaurant with good food, and comfortable seating. I can eat and giggle with myself, people watch, and read a book. Write a bit, eat some more. All by myself. Yay! I'm a very social creature, my friends can't believe that I go out of my way to eat out by myself. But, hey, I'm my very oldest, closest and best friend! My second favorite alone outing is the cinema, or a lecture.