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I am suffering Jewish food withdrawal. This has been made worse by discussion of the Carnegie Deli.

I particularly want chicken soup. Yummy homemade chicken soup. Not sure if I want it with kreplach or knaidlach, probably the latter if I'll be having more beef. Or I could have chicken in the pot, with the cooked chicken, noodles, and carrots. And maybe some knaidlach. :-) But that would be a meal on its own and I want a full Jewish banquet.

Then I want gefilte fish. Pike, whitefish, and a touch of carp, please, horseradish on the side. I could have some stuffed cabbage as a hot appetizer too.

On to the main course: choice of brisket (traditional onion gravy) or roast chicken. Noodle kugel, crusty on top. Glazed carrots. Or I could have kasha varnishkes with the brisket, and fry the onions in schmaltz.

Obviously, after all that, I could only have some spongecake. I'd save the rugelach and cheesecake for another day, along with a plateful of blintzes. And some of my mother's giblet fricassee with noodles.

I only know how to cook this stuff in enormous job lots, so there's no point in me doing it on my own--no one to eat it and nowhere to freeze it :( I could go out for the soup, at least, but it won't taste as good as homemade. I don't like English gefilte fish, so buying that is out. Plus, my family is very Polish in its tastes (lots of sugar, lots of sweet and sour) and English Jews don't seem to go for that, so there's no point trying prepared food.

Oh, and they only have ONE kind of cottage cheese here and the sour cream is thin and comes in teeny tubs :( Hmph.