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My mom (a convert) always used the mix and cooked them right in the soup, and they were my favorites. Well, until my husband (a fallen-away Catholic) cooked them in Alton Brown's chicken stock - those are *fabulous*!
I think the lesson is to let the goyim cook... 
--AC, semi-goyishe
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Actually it's Hebrew. It refers to a non-Jew, though it can also translate as "nation" in Biblical Hebrew.
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First, a little shout-out to your Greek Orthodox Step-dad. I'm Orthodox too!  I'm Lebanese though, and I have to argue that all the good stuff the Greeks get credit for (like stuffed grape leaves and Baklava) are Syrian/Lebanse in origin! :-P Kind of an on-going rivarly.
Anyway I know all about this mixed food / mixed family business. My mom is Syrian and Lebanese, and my dad is Russian and Hungarian, a lapsed / agnostic Jew. We always joke about how we pick up bagles and lox on the way home from church! My friend Brian is half Italian and half Jewish/European, and he calls himself a "pizza bagel." I think that's just about the funniest thing. I like to think of myself as hummus on a bagel!
Even during church fasts (Lent, for example, and a million other times of the year when we don't eat meat, dairy, wine, oil, etc), I end up eating so much "Jewish" food. I had Gefilte fish almost every Friday of my life! And I loooove little smelly fish: sardines, herring, kippers, white fish salad, it doesn't matter! And my dad has taken to Arabic food like a natural. We even eat raw lamb (I know, I know, here come the lectures) and it's his favorite.
As to the goyim discussion, I beleive that's the plural, as in more than one non-Jew. The singular is Goy. I grew up in a very Jewish neighborhood and the neighbors always used to joke that we could be their "Shabbos Goy" -- ie, come over and turn on their lights, cook for them, etc, during the sabbath when they are not supposed to do work. One of my dad's favorite jokes is about the Jewish guy who couldn't get into a country club because he was Jewish ... he adopts all new mannerisms, uses a fake last name, and gets himself an interview again. They ask him his religion, and he proudly states, "I'm a Goy!" Hahahahaha (I hope it's obvious that an actual goy wouldn't refer to himself as such ... ) 
Anyway, great thread. Bring on the multi-ethnic recipes!
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I love to try different cuisines...I was buying a parsnip today and when the cashier asked me what I was making, I laughed as I told her that I was a Christian making Jewish soup!
Being Korean/American....does that make me a bulkogi-burger?
My sisters and I went to an international school where my best friends were from Norway...Sweeden...Belize...you name it. It was awesome.
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I hear you don't want the matzo balls to be sinkers and mine are floaters!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The recipe made an incredible amount of soup...thankfully I have a bunch of friends who aren't afraid to try my experiments!
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