Matzoh Ball Soup

[marcmagus]

I made a batch of matzoh ball soup last night. From one of those scary little Manischevitz boxes. It had the virtue of being surprisingly easy. It doesn't have many other virtues.

I used the quart of soup I had left after I ate all the matzoh balls my mother sent me home with after seder to start, and stretched it with the full amount of soup mix from the box. I was hoping this would result in its tasting a bit less flaccid than it does. It's a bit improved over what I expected soup from a bix to taste like, but still quite disappointing.

I'm more intrigued by the matzoh balls themselves. They're really quite astounding. They seems to be simultaneously too soft (they don't have quite enough bite) and too dense (they don't have the nice big air pockets which give them texture). Next time, I'm asking Mom for her recipe.

But at least I have soup to eat for lunch, so I'm not starving. And I made matzoh brei for breakfast this morning, which worked just fine, cooking really easily in the skillet after the bacon was done. Yes, there's an irony there. (And yes, there's an atrocious pun there.) So it's mid-afternoon and I've actually eaten two meals already. Not bad.

Comments

[velvetmouse]

*wince* ouch. just ouch.

Yeah, one of these years I'll be brave enough to make my own matzoh ball soup.... was going to try it this year but that didn't quite happen.

[shield-toad111.livejournal.com]

Yay for eating! (And for atrocious puns!)

Not so much yay for disappointing soup.

[ladymedb.livejournal.com]

But at least I have soup to eat for lunch, so I'm not starving. And I made matzoh brei for breakfast this morning, which worked just fine, cooking really easily in the skillet after the bacon was done. Yes, there's an irony there.

omg. I'd be disgusted with that joke, but mostly I'm just hungry for bacon.

[mosephine.livejournal.com]

matzoh balls are astoundingly easy to make... following the recipe on the back of the matzoh meal produces very nice ones ;) i'm petty excited to have made my own chicken soup with matzoh balls from scratch this year.

[cinediva.livejournal.com]

Aww, I like the Manischewitz matzo ball soup box thingies. Ben likes them better than I do, but personally I like a firmer, denser matzo ball, and he likes them soft and fluffy.

Though I do always prefer home made, with an infant in the house, all I have time for is the box. :/