When there is so much darkness in the world we need these little lights more than ever. Let them shine in our homes and in our hearts. Let us see light in each other and be light for each other. 🕎
@Northwest No, it is part of an cultural tradition. If you choose to alter that, cook your latkes without oil, in an air frier, it is your decision. You are the one who argued against the tradition.
@Northwest founds some interesting facts and recipes for latkes. i'd love to try the cheese latkes, i guess sort of like blintzes:
Of course we associate potato latkes with Hanukkah, but in reality latkes descends from Italian pancakes that were made with ricotta cheese. The first connection between Hanukkah and pancakes was made by a rabbi in Italy named Rabbi Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (c. 1286-1328). According to The Encyclopedia of Jewish Food by Gil Marks, the Rabbi “included pancakes in a list of dishes to serve at an idealized Purim feast, as well as a poem about Hanukkah. After the Spanish expelled the Jews from Sicily in 1492, the exiles introduced their ricotta cheese pancakes, which were called cassola in Rome, to the Jews of northern Italy. Consequently, cheese pancakes, because they combined the two traditional types of foods–fried and dairy–became a natural Hanukkah dish.”
Potato latkes are a more recent Ashkenazi invention that gained popularity in Eastern Europe during the mid 1800?s. A series of crop failures in Poland and the Ukraine led to mass planting of potatoes, which were easy and cheap to grow. But before potatoes came on the scene, the latke of choice was cheese.
@ServantOfTheGoddess My family celebrates Christmas, usually my parents would attend Midnight Mass. I doubt Pop will be up to it this year. Sometimes I join my middle sister, who celebrates Kwanzaa beginning on the 26th.
@Jenny1234 if you use your phone you can download the GIPHY app. Open the app and search for what you want to use, I put in “hello”
Choose the gif you like and click on it and you will see it in full size like this with the share arrow that I have circled and you can click on that.
After you have selected the share you will see how to share it. Choose “copy link”.
Then come back to SW and choose the photo button on the post you want to reply on.
From there you will choose the “Image Link” option.
Now you are going to paste that link that you copied from the GIPHY app into the image link box so it looks like this.
That means you have linked the gif so you can select the “Insert Image” button. It will come back to your post reply and you will see an image link like this.
You can go ahead and add text as long as you don’t type in the brackets your gif has been inserted. Then just post the comment and it will be there.
Hopefully that helped. On a computer it’s the same process, you just link the gif and follow the same steps.
