We need a new game here! Question me!

↑ WitchKitty ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 11:54 am

ExtraCredit wrote:

You get a pattern in my choices? Anything similar you suggest? Maybe I should treat myself to a new book for second days.

Start a spinoff.
Mountain Family
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Rebel With A Cause

↑ ChanieMommy ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 11:57 am

Ima Piano wrote:

Oh yeah

What nice dessert can I make

I'm making three layers icecream, just with whipped eggwhites (pasteurised), sugar and one layer blueberries (blended, mixed with eggwhites), one layer mango, one layer chocolate or apricots...

Or
Fruit salad (oranges, pinapple, mango, kiwi, dates, almonds, apple)
or
plum compote (1 kg plums, cut in halves, check, remove pit, cook in not too much liquid (or drain a bit), blend

or
apple sauce (same as above, just with apples)
or
date-orange salad (slice half oranges into thin slices, halve dates, mix)
or
Dates with coloured almond paste (open dates, remove, pit, fill with almond paste in different colors)
or
Dates filled with almonds (if you have no almond paste, just almonds, same as above: remove pit, replace with amond)
or
cacao meringues (4 eggwhites, whip stiff, with 200g sugar, when stiff add 2 spoons of cacao powder, form meringues with teaspoon or bag, bake for 1h at low temperature (100°C), till hard. that's for leftover eggwhites if you use just the yolks for eggwash for your challot) 4 eggwhites is for two baking trays, 2 eggs for 1)

Do you like to sing?

↑ ExtraCredit ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 12:25 pm

ChanieMommy wrote:

Miracles in Switzerland by Jutta Luksenberg. It is an intersting and inspiring story about a young child who survived the war in Switzerland... it's not that well written, to be very honest, but inspiring...

Oh, and there is another one you could like, about jews who stayed frum in soviet Russia..."To remain a jew - the life of Rabbi Yitzhok Silber"... also not that well written, but also very inspiring...

I very much liked "The Physician" by Noah Gordon. it's a novel set in the middle ages, about an englishmen who is not jewish, but poses as a jew so that he can go study medicine in Isphahan Persia... It was a bestseller back in the 80s... I loved it...

Noah Gordon also wrote another novel about a Jew remaining in Spain as a Crypto-jew after girush sefarad... it's entitled "the last jew"

I also liked the noels by Nomi Regen about jewish women.. "The sacrifice of Tamar" and others... But I don't know if it's your taste, because it presents women in problematic situations and how they react in those situations... it's not as "holy" as the books you like...

Just to reply to your last suggestion. I’m certain I’d enjoy those. And the ones I mentioned weren’t all smooth sailing holy stories. Lots of real life problems and hardships in each....

↑ ChanieMommy ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 12:33 pm

ExtraCredit wrote:

I like to sing if nobody can hear me.
Thank you ChanieMommy and WitchKitty for the book suggestions.
Do you eat round or regular challos on simchos Torah?

Round... but I won't bake, since my feezer is full of round and regular challot which irked me all through this month so if I run out of round challot, I will take regular ones...

Do you read classic yiddish authors like sholem aleichem, mendele moycher sforim, singer, etc?

↑ ExtraCredit ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 12:45 pm

ChanieMommy wrote:

No, are they written in the Yiddish language?

↑ Cheshire cat ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 12:50 pm

I used to enjoy isaac bashevis singer.

I just want to address naomi ragens work: her books feed off every ugly aspect of frum Yiddish life. Culturally, she does not "get" us, and she has a dirty mind. I felt sick to my stomach after reading her books.

Who are some authors you admire?

↑ WitchKitty ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 12:52 pm

Cheshire cat wrote:

As a person? Etka Gittel Schwartz and M. Bassara. I like the values in the books.

Do you like sci fi?

↑ ExtraCredit ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 12:53 pm

Cheshire cat wrote:

Oh wow. Never read her stuff yet.
I already mentioned my favorite books so I guess I admire those authors.
Do you read a lot?

↑ ExtraCredit ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 2:33 pm

Cheshire cat wrote:

Yes, I read a lot. Less these days, my kids keep me on my toes, but it's my favorite pastime.

I always enjoy Sara Shapiro's books, and Sara yoheved rigler's.

Do you enjoy board games?

Yes, but not if it’s all about luck. I like to use some logic too.

Did you spend the day in the kitchen like me, or you went out?

↑ ChanieMommy ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 2:39 pm

ExtraCredit wrote:

No, are they written in the Yiddish language?

Yes, of courrse. Even the public library here in my place has them in Yiddish...

You never heard of those authors (19th, early 20th century)?

↑ ExtraCredit ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 2:41 pm

ChanieMommy wrote:

Yes, of courrse. Even the public library here in my place has them in Yiddish...

You never heard of those authors (19th, early 20th century)?

I do have a vague recollection about reading Menachem Mendel books. I think I read some a few decades ago, but unfortunately I stopped reading Yiddish a long while ago.
Do you find the Yiddish language as rich as English?

↑ ChanieMommy ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 2:47 pm

ExtraCredit wrote:

I have a hard time reading yiddish, I am very slow with hebrew caracters, but I think it is a rich language... also a subtle language... uses a lot of colored expressions...

Can you read quicker in latin caracters (english) or in hebrew caracters (yiddish/hebrew)?

↑ ExtraCredit ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 2:50 pm

ChanieMommy wrote:

I’m equally fluent in both. It’s nice you find the Yiddish language rich. While I find it beautiful and respect that it’s our momma lashon, I don’t find it as rich as English Sad

It also bothers me that the grammar and spelling in Yiddish is pretty inconsistent.
Do you know any other language besides Yiddish English and Hebrew?

↑ ChanieMommy ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 2:59 pm

ExtraCredit wrote:

I’m equally fluent in both. It’s nice you find the Yiddish language rich. While I find it beautiful and respect that it’s our momma lashon, I don’t find it as rich as English Sad

It also bothers me that the grammar and spelling in Yiddish is pretty inconsistent.
Do you know any other language besides Yiddish English and Hebrew?

Yes, about three or four others, but mostly from the same language families, latin and germanic...

Would you like to speak a language you don't speak? Which one?

↑ ExtraCredit ↓

Thu, Oct 08 2020, 3:03 pm

ChanieMommy wrote:

Yes, about three or four others, but mostly from the same language families...

Would you like to speak a language you don't speak? Which one?

It’s on my bucket list. But I didn’t cross off so many more important things on the list yet, so I’m not sure I’ll ever get to it. I didn’t think of which one to study once I find the time.
Do you think the house can clean itself if I snap my fingers? (Mary poppins again)