I, among many, am celebrating Chanukkah this week. It’s a good holiday: candles, chocolate coins, and deep fried foods, especially latkes.
Epicurious has a recipe for those spinach latkes I love so much. What are your favorite kinds of latkes? What other foods do you fry? Last year I made donuts, because it’s the frying that’s important. In three years, Thanksgiving is going to fall during Chanukkah, and I know people who are already planning their deep-fried turkey. Now that’s a way to combine holiday traditions.
Not hungry enough yet? Try some books as an appetizer:
George Crum and the Saratoga chip
Hiromi’s Hands
Sweet Potato Pie
The Have a Good Day Cafe
Where on Earth Is My Bagel?
Yum! ¡MmMm! ¡Qué Rico! Americas’ Sproutings
My favorite deep-fried yummy is the sopapilla. There’s a recipe on allrecipes.com. Eat it with honey drizzled on top. Have tissue handy, because you’ll be crying afterward…sopapillas are that good.
They look great, Anita! I wasn’t even thinking about things in the fried dough/fried bread paradigm, but it’s a delicious paradigm.
Anita,
I used to buy sopapillas off the street when I lived down in Chile. They’d pull them right out of the oil and hand them to you – SO delicious!
Hannah: They make a mess of the kitchen (grease splattering…or maybe that’s just me and my sloppy cooking), but they are easy to make and so worth the mess.