the holidays come early and often

date: Dec 22

drink: Brooklyn Lager

what: Making J's mom's latkes, simply recipe's apple sauce and eating J's sisters xmas cookies...

So i belong to a CSA, which, for the wintertime, mostly consists of root vegetables... one of those things was 3lbs of potatoes (for this month - its monthly in the winter) - an amount that prompted me to send J an email saying 'what the hell am i going to do with this???'

of course, when you have a new jewish boyfriend and its late december, there really is only one answer - potato latkes...

having grown up in a very jewish neighborhood (marlboro, NJ circa 1985) i was QUITE familiar and only too happy to comply with his request... plus, lets not forget that he was going to have to ask his mom for the recipe - earning me brownie points before i even meet her ;)

we tag-teamed the cooking and mock-argued over who was better at grating potatoes (i am) and generally had a good time. he got to be a good jew and celebrate hanukkah, and i got to revisit my childhood, not to mention make more blog fodder