Victory!

[mamadeb]

I did it! I finally made a good lokshen (noodle) kugel!

My first few came out so badly that I just gave up and bought them when I wanted them. I've found a couple of good brands, and there's one supermarket that makes its own, and those are really delicious.

But I couldn't find any today. Most people seem to prefer the sweet noodle kugels - made with raisins and cinnamon or with caramelized sugar and pepper (Yerushalmi kugels. Absolute salty-sweet-peppery heaven. I miss them.) I can't eat sugar and I like savory side dishes, so I prefer the "salt and pepper" kugels.

When I say my kugels came out badly, I mean that I always ended up with two layers - the top half would be dry and hard and the lower half would be oily. Awful.

Today, though, I put in four eggs - finally, enough eggs - and a good handful of matzo meal. And it's lovely. The very top is crunchy but below it I can see a normal looking kugel. It looks yummy. And I know there's plenty of pepper, too, which storebought lokshen kugels tend to not have.

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Holy cow. I've never yet managed to make a kugel that was anything less than seriously disgusting - more like dry noodles on top than anything a human would want to eat. So I am very much impressed. Really, I always thought you had to be a born kugel-maker (like my mother and her mother) to pull that one off.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

So did I.

I can make a very nice potato kugel - I even handgrate them. And I can do a sweet potato one, and I have really good spinach one.

But lokshen? My favorite kind? Uh-uh.

So you can see why I'm dancing.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Our favorite house kugel is a curried potato one. (Like an ordinary potato kugel, only you add a few handfuls of raisins and a metric ton of curry powder.) They come out glorious and deep-yellow and spicy. It was yaoobruni's idea the first time we made one, and I was dubious, but now I have a hard time returning to the ordinary kind.

Shabbat shalom!

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds so yummy.

Huh. Huh. Huh.

Curried potato latkes. Served with apple chutney.