All of our organs, including our brains, need fuel to function, and human fuel during the Yamim Nora'im is kugel, tsimmes or pahthut. ❋ Rabbi Aaron Alexander (2011)
I've never had tsimmes before and thus wouldn't have known there are meat versions except for the name, but I did find it crying out for meat, pork, specifically -- that's another idea for the leftovers ❋ Unknown (2005)
For several hours he splashed happily while listening to a loop tape of Bob Dylan singing “Hurricane,” but at last, while attacking burnt-on tsimmes with a spackle knife, he was assailed by doubt. ❋ Edited By Susie Bright (2006)
Meditatively, Weinberg pulled out the waistband of his aquamarine sweatpants and lifted his unit in his left hand—he gasped, letting fall from his lips two lit cigarettes and thereby setting his tsimmes pan on fire. ❋ Edited By Susie Bright (2006)
Do you (or JTA Passover blog readers) have suggestions for a (not too difficult to prepare) "main course" vegetarian option that I can offer them, along with my customary charoset, vegetarian tsimmes, asparagus, mushrooms, and salad? ❋ Ami Eden (2010)
Since I had the OJ, I added some to my tsimmes too & that dish was none the less for the addition. ❋ The Calico Cat (2010)
The menu includes some completely traditional dishes - homemade gefilte fish, tsimmes - and some that blend tradition with modernity, like crispy gribenes and tapenade, and a braised brisket that looked a bit like spare ribs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Just as we had ham baked in beer with cloves and pineapple for holidays, Michael's family had brisket served with tsimmes and noodle kugel. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Instead of tsimmes I make sweet potato casserole with candied pecans on top. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Aunt Irene's golden chicken soup and ethereal matzo balls were followed by Mama Hinda's roast chicken and brisket with oven-browned potatoes and Aunt Sally's tsimmes (sweet carrot stew). ❋ Unknown (2008)
tsimmes, n., lit., sweet carrot pudding; fig., song and dance over a trifle. ❋ Unknown (2006)
That evening, as a peace offering to Tsedraiter Ike, Mick Kalooki cooked a kosher chicken with tsimmes and latkes—the first kosher dinner ever cooked on my mother’s stove. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)
Not everyone worked hard, even in those days, however; those who begged for a living were said to shnorr, and they could make quite a tsimmes if you didn’t give them some food or a little gelt. ❋ Unknown (2006)
They were all good sports about my insisting that they come home from classes to sit at a fancy table I used a white bedsheet in lieu of the tablecloth I didn’t own and eat my attempts at cornish hens, wild rice stuffing, giblet gravy, honeyed carrots, tsimmes — the works. *g* It wasn’t the best meal ever, but it felt like fitting tribute, and therefore it makes me happy even nine years later. ❋ Unknown (2004)
