matzo ball soup....
#264188 - 05/18/06 03:00 PM
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I am planning to make this tomorrow! I bought a
matzo ball/soup mix just to get an idea as to what it is supposed to taste like.
I made my mazto balls in 1" size as the box directed but they were huge (golf ball size)! Would it be a big deal if I were to make the balls smaller? I am making it from scratch on Saturday.
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They don't need to be quite so big. It doesn't really matter the size...just not too small or they seem more chewy than fluffy....if that makes sense. Sometimes if I make it for my boys, I make a few small ones because for whatever reason, anything smaller than usual is cool. 
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Flipada
#264191 - 05/18/06 03:16 PM
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the ones I made yesterday had the texture of soggy bread. Of course I really don't know what texture they are supposed to be...I think I was expecting them to be a little more dumpling/gnocchi like.
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Re: Flipada
#264232 - 05/18/06 05:28 PM
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nope...soggy's what you're looking for. definitely not dumpling type. if you followed a recipe or used a box, i'm sure you got it right. some of that stuff is an aquired taste.
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I am glad to know that I got it right then! 
I was told by my friend to use club soda instead of water so I bought clun soda today. My friend is having her wisdom teeth out and I thought this might be something she could handle as she is recovering.
Thanks for the info...soon to have small and soggy matzo balls!
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What did she tell you to use the club soda for? Hmmm, you've got me guessing on that one.
I absolutely love Matzoh balls. So do my kids. I grew up on them. With a Jewish dad, a Christian mom, Greek Orthodox step-dad, and family in the south...I like lots of foods!! Too bad I can't eat that many of them anymore. 
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Here is the recipe...I suppose this thread should have gone in the recipe board. Oh well... I suppose you can use matzo balls in any kind of soup. I am just not sure about the soggy...oh well, I won't know unless I try it!
Here's how you make good matzo balls: Go to the store and buy Manischewitz matzo meal. It has a recipe on the back for matzo balls. It's easy, but here are a few hints: Beat the eggs before you mix them w. the meal and the salt. Instead of water, use club soda--- it makes the matzo balls lighter. If you want to do so, you can use chicken fat instead of vegetable fat in the recipe. You could also use chicken broth instead of club soda--- but I like the club soda. After cooking the matzo balls (you boil them in water) put them in chicken soup.
Here's how you make a good Jewish chicken soup:
Take 1 or 2 whole chickens--- remove the innards. Keep the neck. Put the chickens in cold water in a large pot and bring to a boil. Crud from the chickens will boil up to the surface (brown foam). Skim the water until you have removed all the brown foam--- a fairly lengthy process. Once you have clean boiling water w. chicken in it, add carrots (I like to use baby carrots), parsley, garlic powder, an onion or two cut into quarters, and a parsnip (white carrot). cook the chickens until tender--- meat falling off the bone. Remove the chickens and take the skin off, remove the bones, and return the chicken to the water. Add some bouillion to give it a stronger flavor and to provide the saltiness. I use powdered bouillion but you can use cubes. If you don't add bouillion, the soup will be insipid--- not very flavorful. Boil/simmer for a couple of hours.
Cool and put in the refrig overnight. Skim the fat off the surface the next day. You have nice low calorie. low fat, high protein chicken soup. You can use the fat for the matzo balls, or you can buy chicken fat for the matzo balls, or you can use vegetable oil, which is what I do.
Add the matzo balls to the soup a couple of hours before serving. Simmer so that the matzo balls take on the flavor of the soup.
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interesting. I've never heard that about Club Soda before. Thanks for sharing.
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one warning- don't use boxed mixes for yourself unless you can handle MSG... make them from scratch- more eggg, less matsa meal=floater, more meal, less egg= sinker or hard one.. and I make them about 1/2" and cook them right in the soup...
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I didn't even look for MSG and realized when I blew up like a blow fish...I think that is why I am still nauseated a couple of days later! I did buy the meal and will use that for this soup. I am really looking forward to it...I like to try new things.
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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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AC...I thought you were suggesting that I let the "goyim" cook long enough to be flavorful. Two days later I get that you are referring to the non-Jew, not an ingredient!
For someone who is relatively bright, suddenly I feel like an airhead!
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Hee hee! Maybe I should draw my husband a really warm bath so he can "cook" a bit...
But yeah, since he does 90% of the cooking at our house, it's always a goy that's cooking. I take more after the Jewish women in our family - I never saw my dad's mom cook anything more than coffee. But both my dad and brother cook, so maybe it's a case of letting the *men* cook....
--AC
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