“The bacon-wrapped matzah ball thing was a little bit of a joke — a tongue-in-cheek thing I did for a friend’s birthday party in New York,” said the loquacious chef, sporting his signature dark-rimmed glasses as he sat at the restaurant’s wooden communal table, his design. “He was a fellow Jew and not kosher at all, and I thought it would be kind of funny to do. I tried it and loved it. It came out really nice. Pork fat does something magical to matzah meal.”
I am no stranger to mixing the sacred and the profane. At this year's seder, an intrepid guest proposed the open-faced bacon matzoh sandwich which turned out quite well:
2 comments:
I love your recipes that mix the sacred and profane.
I wish I could think of some comparable Mormon ones, but all I can come up with are my Mexican chocolate shortbread cookies that have espresso powder in them. I guess I could call them Satan's Coffee Cookies?
keep em coming!
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