I tried to make a Yiddish dinner the other day and it FUCKING SUCKED.
Gefilte fish, latkes, beets, sauerkraut, cheese blintzes.
The gefilte fish looked like a decent deal. Expensive, sure, but not much more so than ground beef. It turned out, though, that the jar made it look like there was a lot more than it was. Basically $6 for one meal of fish. Gefilte fish, if you don't know, is basically fish meatloaf that Yids eat, hot or cold, with horseradish. The one part I liked was the horseradish sauce, I enjoy that and have started eating that on many foods, mainly sausage.
The latkes turned out fine, it just turns out that there's no reason to eat a latke. It's a damn hash brown, but arguably worse. Why would you eat if you could just make hashbrown casserole.
Next, we have the cheese blintz. Oy vey. I bought cottage cheese because I read that it was an acceptable substitute for farmer's cheese. Well, maybe they meant that in the sense of how it tastes, but the difference is that cottage cheese may as well be liquid and so it was impossible to wrap it up properly. I ended up adding more of it to the slop to try to solidify it, and in the end had to just throw it all out, but I could tell from the part that I ate that it wouldn't have been worth my time anyways. The blintz is basically a crepe wrapped around cheese and then fried in oil to crisp it up, kind of like certain Mexican wraps. They then eat it with sour cream (!) because their Yiddish, if it's not sour and gross they don't want it.
Overall, it sucked. I cooked a big pork kielbasa sausage with my remaining sauerkraut and beets for the next meal just so I could dunk on kosher laws.
