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[geminigirl]

I am having the strangest food craving this morning....

Noodle kugel. But not a sweet kugel, a savory one, with ricotta cheese (I hate when it's made with cream cheese) and seasonings and maybe mushrooms...not much else.


And I have no idea how I would go about making one like that.

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[scherzoid.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what a kugel is. But my imagination came up with a woman inserting ricotta cheese, seasonings and mushrooms into her hoo-ha, then squeezing her PC muscle to mix the ingredients up.

Isn't hoo-ha a cool word?

I obviously need more caffeine...

[geminigirl]

Not that it would bug you at all, but the lemonade that came out of my nose when I read this HURT!

And then I had to put my head down on my desk to stop laughing.

Loosely translated, noodle kugel is kind of like noodle pudding...eggs, noodles, cheese, some other stuff...

You do know that gsh said nearly the same thing to me on IRC too, don't you?

[geminigirl]

Oh yeah...

You haven't ever seen "Boys on the Side" have you?

Has one of my favorite movie lines ever in it...

"What's a hoo-hoo?"
"It's a cunt, dear."

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Coochie.

Mmmm. Sweet kugels.

[geminigirl]

I work with one group of kids who call it "cookie"

Which is odd to me since "cookies"=orgasms. From the movie "Outide Providence"-"Sex is like Chinese food, it's not over til you both get your cookies."

[bitty.livejournal.com]

I usually have pretty good luck with AllRecipes.

[geminigirl]

Nothing savory...all sweet puddings. And I don't like the sweet ones much, cause they usually have sour cream and cream cheese-two things I don't care for.

Also checked SOAR's Jewish recipes...

[dwildchil.livejournal.com]

Ingredients

3 cups matzo farfel
2 onions, chopped
1 pound mushrooms, chopped
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
1 pinch garlic powder
1 teaspoon dried dill weed


Directions :
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8x12 inch baking dish.

Place farfel in a colander and pour boiling water over it.

In a large skillet, saute onions and mushrooms in vegetable oil. Stir in salt and pepper, garlic powder, and dill. Remove from heat and stir farfel into the skillet.

Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Bitty pointed me to your post...

I don't have a recipe for you, per se, but I'd sautee onions and lots of mushrooms (usually I put in chopped spinach, too) with whatever seasonings you like (black pepper and thyme come to mind right now, but I've had thyme on the brain for a couple of days now) until they're cooked down, then mix that and probably an egg into the ricotta. Cook the egg noodles (for some reason I always want wide ones for kugel), then once they're done and drained, mix in the ricotta stuff. Put in a baking pan, bake at 325 or 350 for 45 minutes to an hour, or until it looks done.

Er, hope this helps (or you were able to find kugel already).

[geminigirl]

I'm thinking garlic needs to be in there somewhere, and black pepper and I have to see what else I have in the house.

What do you recommend as noodle to cheese proportions?

(And no, I haven't found any kugel. It's hard to find anything I want that's remotely Jewish most of the time here. So extrabig thanks to both you and Bitty.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

I could see sauteeing garlic with the rest of the veggies.

Unfortunately, I don't have particular noodle : cheese recommendations. I tend to do a lot of improvisational cooking, adding [ingredient X] until the distribution "looks right". And, of course it depends on your taste, too. I guess I'd start with a pound (or a bag, which might be 12 oz these days, for noodles) of noodles, and have one of the small (1-lb) ricotta containers, though since I tend to cook too much perhaps I'd make 2 bags of noodles... So perhaps I'm suggesting 1 : 1 ratio noodles : cheese. (but there are veggies in there, she thinks defensively... :-)