Hanukkah

 Last Sunday was the first night of Hanukkah.   

To celebrate, we had a small famiy dinner with Jason's Aunt Marcy, her friend Diane, Alexandra, and my dad and Marilynn.

We made some chicken and of course Latkes.   WE followed a NYT recipe for the latkes.  One of the reviews suggested that they came out as tasty if baked in the oven as fried.   We decided to give it a try and baked about half.

  

The result:  fried was 1000% better.   the baked ones were too uniformly cooked and lacked the delicatness of the freshly fried variety.   

Well, now we know.   It is worth the mess to fry!

Anyhow, it was a nice gathering and a great way to kick off the holiday.