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Default Kasha Varnishkas, has nothing to do with varnish

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at 10:38:19 PM UTC-5, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Wed 22 Nov 2017 06:55:58p, jmcquown told us...
>>
>>> On 11/22/2017 7:04 PM, wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:19:42 +1100, Bruze >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:13:06 -0500,
wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> One major dish done... actually more labor intensive/time
>>>>>> consuming than the turkey... took 4 hours including clean up:
>>>>>>
https://postimg.org/image/wb560xtfp/
>>>>>
>>>>> Buckwheat, right?
>>>>
>>>> 'Zactly. I use the 60+ year old recipe, even then I knock it up
>>>> to notches unknown, use eggs and think schmaltz. Use Wolf's
>>>> "Whole Granulation".
>>>>
>>>
>>> It might be traditional for Thanksgiving in your family. To me it
>>> looks like a big mess.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>>

>>
>> Kasha varnishkes are part of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine. Definitely
>> not part of a typical American Thanksgiving meal unless you're Jewish
>> or hae strong Eastern European roots. Personally, I hate buckwheat
>> and I agree it does look like a mess. :-)

>
> Like Bruce, I'm fond of soba noodles. I'd be willing to try
> kasha varnishkes, but most recipes for it look horribly bland.
> Kudos to Sheldon for using mushrooms.
>
> I'll stick to bread dressing with spicy pork sausage in it.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

The dressing sounds good to me. Never had it with sausage,
just giblet gravy, but would definitely try it. Beats hell
out of alpo dogfood or jewish varnish!