<p>We have been invited to a party for latkes-- what do I take? We are bringing the applesauce (homemade) and I have gelt. Anything else I need to take? Should take?</p>
<p>Maybe your own menorah and candles? It’s sometimes fun for several families to each light their own menorah together with everyone else, and it looks so festive!</p>
<p>A good spinning dreidel?</p>
<p>We are not Jewish, the family we are going to the wife is, the husband is not. She admits to eating bacon with her latkes, so they clearly do not keep kosher.</p>
<p>Sour cream is good, but they might have that already. There are great cardboard glasses you can get that give pretty Hanukkah images when you wear them. The applesauce and gelt are enough though.</p>
<p>Yeah, homemade applesauce and gelt should be fine.</p>
<p>Bacon with latkes!?</p>
<p>:confused:</p>
<p>Not sure if they will serve jelly donuts or not, but a small box of jelly donut holes?
Jelly donuts are another Chanukah treat to eat…</p>
<p>If you’re bringing the applesauce you could also bring some cinnamon sugar. That’s what we’ve always sprinkled on top. And you can tell yourself that cinnamon has some kind of health properties.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! I will bring cinnamon sugar! Just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t missing anything.</p>
<p>Um, if you brought cinnamon sugar to my house on Chanukkah, I’d have no idea what to do with it. I’ve never heard of serving cinn/sugar with latkes. But then again, we don’t prefer sour cream or applesauce with our latkes. We like ketchup. The applesauce remains untouched. </p>
<p>To each his own! Just eat then while they are hot!!</p>
<p>One suggestion, if family is Kosher, it might not be a good idea to bring anyhing homemade, you better off bringing something from the store with the proper signs. I do not think you could go wrong with the bottle of Manishwizc (not sure about spell).
However, if they are not kosher, homemade anything will definitely beat anything from he store.</p>
<p>I think the cinnamon sugar was meant for the applesauce, not the latkes! </p>
<p>My mother makes her applesauce and the little ones devour it; they could eat and entire bowl and nothing else :)</p>
<p>If you are bringing the applesauce I am sure you aren’t expected to bring anything else. That said, adding the gelt is a nice thought.</p>
<p>LOL Snowball. That makes more sense!</p>
<p>Here;s a nice recipe for Bacon with Lattkes:</p>
<p>[Bacon</a> and Garlic Potatoe Latkes Recipe at Epicurious.com](<a href=“http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/BACON-AND-GARLIC-POTATOE-LATKES-1254510]Bacon”>http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/BACON-AND-GARLIC-POTATOE-LATKES-1254510)</p>
<p>Now this thread is funny:) Can we talk about gefilte fish now?</p>
<p>We put the applesauce on the latkes, then sprinkle a little cinnamon sugar on the applesauce. Absolutely delicious. If you google, you can see that it’s a popular topping. That’s half the plate; the other half has latkes with sour cream.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine putting ketchup on them, though. Might as well just have french fries?</p>
<p>I make applesauce with apples and cider and a little maple sugar. Isn’t gefilte fish for Passover? I make mine with red snapper.</p>
<p>The gefilte has almost become extinct in the wild, though there are still people who stalk it. (The trick to capturing it is having the original shape of the Mothers Jar. You bait them with jellied carrots.)</p>
<p>[DSCF3539</a> | Flickr - Photo Sharing!](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/soggydan/4405385178/]DSCF3539”>DSCF3539 | Stalking the wild gefilte fish | Soggydan Benenovitch | Flickr)</p>
<p>Midrash has it that the gefilte played an important role in the Israelites crossing the Sea of Reeds (NOT the Red Sea, though that’s where the original red horseradish comes from), as on command, ten thousand wild gefiltes each sucked in 400 times their body weight in water, hence creating a path for the Israelites to cross. (But the original wild geflltes were actually land animals, notes Aristotle in his Animalia.)</p>
<p>Funny mini and you would make me wonder a few months ago! But I saw the wonderful grandmother who made gefilte fish on the Mo Rocco show “My Grandmother’s Ravioli”. She and Mo together were so charming cooking together. She had been a math teacher so she knew how to explain everything. Of course like bethievt she makes her own delicious -looking gefilte fish and abhors the jarred stuff. Does anybody like the jarred kind?</p>
<p>My DH only likes the Mother’s brand of gefilte fish. He eats them for any Jewish holiday, not just Passover. LOL, mini!!</p>
<p>Did you consider… beer?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/Beer---Latke-Hanukkah-Celebrat.aspx[/url]”>http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/Beer---Latke-Hanukkah-Celebrat.aspx</a></p>
<p>pssst - lololu, you are just fine with what you’ve said you’ll bring. Please don’t add a six-pack!</p>
<p>I think this event will attract a huge young crowd to the 92nd Street Y (Tribeca) in New York City.</p>