I’m very fond of David Bogner and Treppenwitz, and this post is inspired partly by his weekly “Photo Friday” feature (before I knew that he had a culinary theme this week too), and partly by the comments on this post a few months back about the ingredients of my hamin.
Here is everything which went into the hamin yesterday (not including water and spices. Oh, and only six of those eggs ended up going in). Fourth from the left in the row of vegetables is the lefet which I usually use, which I decided earlier was a turnip, and third from the left is something that I have never seen before which appeared in the supermarket, calling itself a tzenon yarok (צנון ירוק). Is this a rutabaga?
David | 18-Dec-04 at 9:32 am | Permalink
I’m honored! BTW, your recipe sounds yummy. We have a more ashkanaz assortment of ingredients in our weekly ‘chulent’.
Talmida | 18-Dec-04 at 10:25 am | Permalink
First on the left is your Yam. Then comes your garlic. Then your strange looking thing like a kiwi? Nowhere near a rutabaga, dear boy. Rutabaga is about twice as big, it’s golden yellow with purple/blue marking. Your turnip/navette is lovely! I don’t think I want you to identify the white-saugage-y looking stuff. It looks nasty. However, I am drooling over your table! Is the entire thing butcher block?
Simon | 18-Dec-04 at 10:44 am | Permalink
I see IKEA has a branch in your home town, Talmida, so you can have a table just like mine if you want it: http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10101&storeId=3&productId=15687&langId=-15&parentCats=10117*10310
We may have had this discussion before, but the thing on the left isn’t a yam, it’s a sweet potato. The sausagey thing is a kishke. I don’t want to know either how they make it or what exactly they put in it, but believe me it tastes great.
Talmida | 18-Dec-04 at 2:46 pm | Permalink
Aha, you might THINK it is a sweet potato! But on this side of the atlantic, it is a yam, or sometimes a sweetpotato yam!! Either way, I have a couple in my pantry that I will cook up and puree with orange juice and possibly ginger and brown sugar for a feast I’m having on Monday.
Your kishke looks rather like one of those strange things available at parisien “Triperies”. Andouilles? Some name like that? I too never asked too closely what they contained.
I just got home from IKEA!! we bought a new rug — alas, there is no photo of it on the website. I have a table much like that, but the legs are different – it’s where I study my Hebrew.
Shalom,
T.