In many households plates of cookies will be left for Santa on Christmas Eve. Many of these cookies are made by the loving little hands that belong to our cherished children. It is when you have your own children that you get to relive Christmas again. The same excitement is present, except, it isn’t for Santa that we wait. That mystical joy is replaced by the absolute and pure happiness we feel as we watch our children’s eyes sparkle on Christmas morning. Children will run to inspect the gifts under the tree and in their stockings and, if they’ve left cookies for Santa, they will not forget to check the plate on which they left the cookies. Sometimes they forget until later in the morning, but they will look. And, when they do, those cookies had better be gone or at least half eaten. It might be a confirmation that,... Read the Rest →
In many households plates of cookies will be left for Santa on Christmas Eve. Many of these cookies are made by the loving little hands that belong to our cherished children. It is when you have your own children that you get to relive Christmas again. The same excitement is present, except, it isn’t for Santa that we wait. That mystical joy is replaced by the absolute and pure happiness we feel as we watch our children’s eyes sparkle on Christmas morning. Children will run to inspect the gifts under the tree and in their stockings and, if they’ve left cookies for Santa, they will not forget to check the plate on which they left the cookies. Sometimes they forget until later in the morning, but they will look. And, when they do, those cookies had better be gone or at least half eaten. It might be a confirmation that,... Read the Rest →
We had never heard of calas until we saw them in A Baker’s Odyssey by Greg Patent. According to A Baker’s Odyssey calas (ka-LAs) are “not too sweet rice fritters with a slightly chewy texture.” They were a “traditional delicacy for decades in New Orleans”. And, according to Jessica Harris, in her cookbook The Welcome Table “Calas seem to have been the exclusive culinary preserve of African-American cooks who peddled them in the French Market” Belles calas! Tout chaud! Beautiful rice fritters! Nice and hot! During Hanukkah we make these delicious rice fritters as an alternative to the deep fried sufganiyot, round, ball shaped jelly donuts that are the traditional sweet of Hanukkah. Our family does not really enjoy the sufganiyot, but in keeping with the tradition of frying foods we are completely happy to deep fry calas to celebrate the miracle that occurred at the rededication of a Jewish... Read the Rest →
We had never heard of calas until we saw them in A Baker’s Odyssey by Greg Patent. According to A Baker’s Odyssey calas (ka-LAs) are “not too sweet rice fritters with a slightly chewy texture.” They were a “traditional delicacy for decades in New Orleans”. And, according to Jessica Harris, in her cookbook The Welcome Table “Calas seem to have been the exclusive culinary preserve of African-American cooks who peddled them in the French Market” Belles calas! Tout chaud! Beautiful rice fritters! Nice and hot! During Hanukkah we make these delicious rice fritters as an alternative to the deep fried sufganiyot, round, ball shaped jelly donuts that are the traditional sweet of Hanukkah. Our family does not really enjoy the sufganiyot, but in keeping with the tradition of frying foods we are completely happy to deep fry calas to celebrate the miracle that occurred at the rededication of a Jewish... Read the Rest →
