Apples and Noodles

Well when I entered this endeavor I knew I would be trying things I would normally skip over.  Literally there would be no connection between eyes and brain because the eyes knew...

or did they?

So I get this one

Apples and Noodles



Where in a menu plan does this even come in?  Too savory for a dessert, too sweet for a meal

Go to my friend google as I am buying egg noodles and "cooking apples" in HyVee.  I need a direction and need to start cooking in 15 minutes if I am going to have the whole family eating at one time tonight (I try.  I fail.  I repeat.  When it does work I wish it didn't.  I try again)

First hit in the fine print below "Friends eat as dessert, but I think it goes well with pork"

Great! Pork loin.  Got that at home already, now need to find a cooking apple.

Porter's first in line and on the google list.  Time to get my butt back home.

Ok, I got everything started so I opened my friend google and really tried to search the history of this dish...

Turns out it is a common Yiddish dish served at Hannu... Channu... CHUkan... The Jewish Festival of Lights.  Great...  In my quest to expand my cultural culinary horizons I insult a whole group with due to a google search.  Too late to do anything about it now, I only beg forgiveness and ignorance...

Now this is what we get when done

As my dietitian friends will point out... pretty white.

Family critics:  A likes the apple, confused about the noodles and asks if it is cat safe
                         B likes the noodles, confused about the apples and  says it should be a dessert (it is                               only a crust away from a kuchen anyways)
                         Cats:  quick upturned nose and went to go outside
                         Dog???:  didn't stop to taste swallowed whole before it hit the bowl
                         Me:  I like it.  But it is not a main dish.  It is not a dessert as is.  Not sure where this                             fits in my culinary index.  But I can tweak if necessary.

Maybe an east coast friend will shed some light on this.  Until then, it is a pleasant bu confusing memory in my foodie history, until if and when it shows back up again.

POSTSCRIPT
yes I know it has been a week.  Time, Finances, and the unexplained thought that moving the computer upstairs will help me get work done took it's toll on me.  But fear not, the good, the bad, and the boring continues.  Much to the distress of the daughter

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