Posted 4 months ago
dav2no1
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Merry Christmas To All My Friends!
My Belgian Malinois Shepherds Sansa(female-right) and Ueli(male) wanted to wish everyone a wonderful holiday!
The other picture is some matzah brei. My parents used to make this dish for us when we were kids and it was always my favorite. I made it for my daughter when she was young. I personally like using the Manischewitz egg n onion flavor matzos, but the flavor is not for everyone.
MATZAH BREI
It's pronounced "Matzo brigh.." like fry. It originated in North America in the 1840s.(someone fact check that) Allegedly it's Stephen Spielberg's favorite breakfast too! People eat it a few different ways..usually savory or sweet. I prefer mine savory or just with salt & pepper.
MY RECIPE FOR FRIED MATZOS
2 sheets matzo (I use 2 1/2)
2 tablespoons butter
2 large eggs, beaten with 1 tablespoon milk
Large pinch fine sea salt & pepper, more to taste
Run the matzo sheets quickly under some running water. What this does is, allows you to break up the matzos in the next step without them turning to crumbs. (My Father's recipe, he would dip the sheets in the egg mixture, then break them up and cook)
Place a large, nonstick skillet over medium-high heat and add butter. Once it melts and the foam subsides, break matzo sheets into bite-size pieces and add to pan. Sauté matzo in butter until it browns all over, about 2 minutes.
Add eggs to pan over the matzos, season with salt and pepper and scramble the mixture until it is just sets but is still light and fluffy, about 1 minute or so. (TIP After adding my eggs and seasoning, I flip from the outside in all the way around, then bottom to top. This method gets all the pieces coated. Then keep moving like your making scrambled eggs. I use this method in the first step also, when frying in butter.)
Serve and enjoy!
dav2no1, Merry Christmas. :-)
That recipe looks pretty tasty.
Merry Xmas dav2no1....Sansa and Ueli are adorable...hope you all have a fantastic holiday season!!
Merry Christmas dav2! Matzoh brie is kind of like Jewish chilaquiles!
Merry Christmas Dave!
Beautiful dogs they look so happy. Was interested to see their breed is one of the top military dogs on a war dog doc, so brave.
Nice matzo dish, I love the egg type with butter, yum
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !
Just following up a bit on the origins of Matzah Brei.
Gil Marks' "Encyclopedia of Jewish Food" is widely cited:
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Matza brei is a dish of soaked pieces of matza mixed with beaten eggs and fried as a pancake or omelet.
Origin: North America
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https://books.google.com/books?id=gFK_yx7Ps7cC
I notice that Marks avoided describing what is to be used to soak the matzo bread. };-)
Viennese writer Nino Shaye Weiss was not so reticent (paragraph breaks my edit):
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Most North American recipes are based on machine matzos, the square ones, and use water to soak.
Conservative religious customs prevent a lot of Hassidim from eating those modern machine matzos — they only eat old world, handmade matzos5 — let alone exposing matzo to water. Many communities, Hasidic ones in particular, have the custom of refraining from eating matzo that came in contact with water.
Here’s Tablet magazine on that last point: “In case you don’t think that religious instruction is insane, please read that last line again. It is against Jewish law to eat a piece of dry, unleavened bread if it touches water. If need be, read the line aloud. At some point, it’ll sink in.” They call that gebrokt in Yiddish. Instead, they use milk or the eggs themselves as soaking liquid.
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https://jewishviennesefood.com/gourmet-hand-matzo-brei-sweet-savory-with-caramelized-onions-truffle-and-honey-recipevideo-galitzianerinvienna/
So, did Sansa and Ueli get some matzah brei?
Knew I was forgetting something:
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The dish was a household food item in Dan’s childhood home in New Jersey too. “My mother got the recipe from my father’s mother — she was born in Kiev,” and immigrated sometime in the 1880s Dan explained.
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https://www.jewishfoodsociety.org/stories/alison-romans-family-brunch-gravlax--matzo-brei
So dunno.
It's possible that the dish has North American origins, but made its way to Europe thereafter.
Merry Christmas Dave!! Sansa and Ueli are beautiful Shepherds!!!!
Thank you all for the loves and comments! Hope your holiday was everything you hoped for.
Jenni - The police also use these dogs. The breed is a handful to say the least. They are often too smart for their own good. And need exercise several times a day.
Kera - Interesting stuff..I was aware of the fact about machine made matzah, but not about the water. The boxes are marked, "not for passover use".. now we understand why. I assumed that matzo brei was a non traditional food.
Picture added..Dogs got new frisbees for xmas..they are super happy!
Yeah, it's an interesting rabbit hole. I saw that about Spielberg.
Somebody out there (can't find it again right off the bat) opined that matzah brei is the one dish that every Jewish male learns how to make. };-)
Just in the little poking around I did, I found a fairly incredible variety of ways to make matzah brei.
This writer opined on the sweet versus savory debate:
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Egg batter seasoned with salt and pepper and no sugar probably had its origins in Germany, Lithuania, or Russia. Those who sweetened their batter with sugar and spice probably have roots in Poland, Hungary, and other areas known in the past as Galicia. Almost everyone uses jam, cinnamon, and sugar, or syrup as a topping.
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https://reformjudaism.org/reform-jewish-life/food-recipes/matzah-brei
Me, I'm a savory hound.
Whoops, didn't see the addition about the dogs. So, new frisbees make for happy dog babies. <3
The male is adorable with his "I am in charge" look. They are just so perfect, never get lonely when you collect however !~
PhilD..I guarantee you the male is not in charge. Sansa the female is a pure bred Blue Malinois (*DNA tests)..and she is the alpha. She is fearless ..she was found starving and wandering the streets of L.A. Fireworks, loud noises, shouting, other animals do not phase her one bit. Weighing about 20 lbs less than Ueli she can drag him across the basement in a rope tug o war! She's the first one out the door during the day and night.
very very cute post :)