{"id":631,"date":"2008-12-21T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2008-12-21T15:19:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T15:19:56","slug":"2008-hanukkah-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2008\/12\/2008-hanukkah-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Hanukkah Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I threw a Hanukkah dinner and invited my friends Desiree and Charlotte along with their families.  It went very well, though I did spend a lot of time in the kitchen preparing <b>latkes<\/b>.  I&#8217;m thinking that next year I may prepare them in advance and keep them warm in the oven &#8211; while I love the fresh latkes, it did keep me away from the party for most of the evening.<br \/>\nThis time I served my famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/party\/mika2\/salad.html\">Mixed Green Salad with Gorgonzola Vinaigrette<\/a>, to great acclaim as usual.  It really is a wonderful salad.<br \/>\nThe latkes were from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/printerfriendly\/Potato-Latkes-104406\">usual recipe<\/a>.  As usual they were great.  I served them with sour cream and apple sauce (homemade by Desiree).<br \/>\nThe main dish was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/2008\/12\/winebraised_brisket_of_beef_wi.html\">Wine-Braised Brisket of Beef with Caramelized Pearl Onions and Dried Apricots<\/a>.  Quite good, and my guests ate almost all of it (either they were very hungry or they really liked it).<br \/>\nFor dessert I wanted to make homemade doughnuts, but this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/Hanukkah-Doughnuts-104482\">simple recipe<\/a> was a complete failure.  The doughnuts were too crispy on the outside, semi-raw on the inside (I do admit this was probably my mistake, it was hard to keep the oil at a constant temperature), and just not very tasty.  I gave up and bought regular donuts and the donut store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I threw a Hanukkah dinner and invited my friends Desiree and Charlotte along with their families. It went very well, though I did spend a lot of time in the kitchen preparing latkes. I&#8217;m thinking that next year I may prepare them in advance and keep them warm in the oven &#8211; while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinner","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}