An aside: As immigrants having eaten turkey for our first Thanksgiving in California, my parents and siblings and I held a family council before our second Thanksgiving. We unanimously decided turkey was off the menu. Thereafter, and for most years of my childhood and youth, we enjoyed stuffed Cornish game hen. Which as you probably know are tasty and nice and juicy тАУ but neither "Cornish" nor "game" nor "hen".
I thought Cornish hens were little chickens, no? When I was a kid, I thought they were gornisht game hens, because gornisht is Yiddish for "nothing." I always preferred normal-sized chickens. But what my family had in commons with yours is that we always preferred chicken to turkey, and after a while, we stopped making a turkey when we hosted Thanksgiving. We also had fantastic duck in Beijing!
Thanks for the links! Your wife's work looks interesting on my phone, but I think I need to look again on my largish external monitor after work today. :-)
Apparently this is only the fourth time since 1900 that Hanukkah and Christmas Day coincide. My wife made delicious duck for dinner.
Happy Hanukkah and Happy Christmas, all!
Yum, duck! How did you cook it?
The most amazing duck IтАЩve ever had was in Beijing in 2000, but last nightтАЩs dinner was, as you say, yummie! Here is the recipe Shelah followed.
https://mapleleaffarms.com/recipes/roasted-whole-duck-basic-recipe-for-crispy-skin
By the way, if youтАЩre interested, here is my wifeтАЩs artist page & Instagram:
https://www.shelah-horvitz-art.com/
https://www.instagram.com/shelah.horvitz/
An aside: As immigrants having eaten turkey for our first Thanksgiving in California, my parents and siblings and I held a family council before our second Thanksgiving. We unanimously decided turkey was off the menu. Thereafter, and for most years of my childhood and youth, we enjoyed stuffed Cornish game hen. Which as you probably know are tasty and nice and juicy тАУ but neither "Cornish" nor "game" nor "hen".
I thought Cornish hens were little chickens, no? When I was a kid, I thought they were gornisht game hens, because gornisht is Yiddish for "nothing." I always preferred normal-sized chickens. But what my family had in commons with yours is that we always preferred chicken to turkey, and after a while, we stopped making a turkey when we hosted Thanksgiving. We also had fantastic duck in Beijing!
Thanks for the links! Your wife's work looks interesting on my phone, but I think I need to look again on my largish external monitor after work today. :-)
Thanks for those details. Hilarious about "gornisht".
Another pastime of mine: contemplating the core points Martin Buber makes in his great work, "I and Thou".