latke

There are ideas for small bites, main plates, sides, sweet treats, drinks, preserves and brine, rubs and oils, while recipes include salt cod latkes, North African roasted chickpeas and homemade spicy popcorn with chipotle salt.

It surely would have been for my mother, the only black mom at my shul and a lapsed Catholic who dutifully made hand-grated latkes from her mother-in-law's recipe while Jewish moms shamelessly brought in Ore-Ida.

Season and, working with a little of the mixture at a time, wrap small handfuls up into a square of muslin or a new, thin washing-up cloth and squeeze out as much excess liquid as you can (this will stop your latkes being soggy).

Hanukkah also involves eating a lot of traditional fried foods like "latkes" or potato pancakes, and "sufganiyot" or jelly-filled donuts.

Jews now celebrate the festival with nightly menorah-lightings, special prayers and foods such as fried potato latkes, traditional doughnuts, fried apple fritters, applesauce and cheese blintzes.

In this version, Judith feeds Holofernes levivot (Hebrew for latkes) made with cheese.

This recipe, fried in butter, is a little naughty, but it does make for a brilliantly delicious starter Parsnip latkes | Roughly grate 4 large parsnips (you can peel them first, but we prefer just to give them a good wash and scrub).

The tracks are "The Mitzvah Bus", "Hannukah", "Hola Shalom", "Camp", "Latkes for Breakfast", "Bevakasha", "Matzah on my Mind", "Shabbat Shalom", "Purim Party Song", "Tokhes", "Flood's Gonna Come", and "Naturaleza".

You know, if we ever get out of here, I'd love to take you out for some latkes. Do you like latkes?

Special Hanukkah foods are made with oil, such as fried jelly-filled sufganiyot and latkes (left), potato pancakes fried in oil and served with applesauce.

For Chanukah try Sweet Potato Latkes, Jelly Doughnuts, or Rugelach.