Good week and Happy holiday!
Hanukkah is one of my favorite holidays. It always comes during the short dark days of the year and it occurs within our daily life.
It doesn’t totally stop our routine, but adds seasonal festiveness before the slowness of the cold of winter. It marks the end of the olive harvest and the end of summer crops in gardens and in fields and it fills our lives with celebration and joy… this is what I call "light".
Now there is a great variety in nature!!! You should translate this to your latkes (among my favorite foods).
The main ingredient in our Latkes are potatoes, which were discovered by Columbus in America. This was long after the Maccabees . In the days of the Maccabees, who were likely farmers, they could celebrate by eating lentil pancakes (best when sprouted, of course).
In honor of Hanukkah, we should eat latkes of different types. We generally use potatoes, of course, but also sweet potatoes, butternut squash, lentil sprouts, new onions, etc. They all add so much to latkes. I suppose the Maccabees ate latkes made of lentils, hubeza, spinach, Swiss chard… Here is an archive of our recipes for latkes. Please send us your best recipes and we'll share them with everyone.
Remember: it is best to fry them in coconut oil !!!
Happy Hanukkah. We wish you all much light and warmth in your home and soul, but wetness outside.
Lavrioot,
Maggie and the Garden Staff
Organic vegetable baskets (everything suitable for pancake except lettuce and tomatoes) are expected to include:
Yams
Onions
Carrots
pumpkin
lettuce
Fennel
Cucumbers
Swiss Chard
Tomatoes
Sprouts / Parsley
In the larger organic vegetable baskets, also:
cabbage
beets
Potatoes
Puck-Choy
Organic fruit baskets;
Bananas
Oranges
Clementines
Sweeties
In the larger organic fruit baskets, also:
Apples
And papaya
