{"id":174083,"date":"2025-04-06T18:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/baking-category-a-b\/noodle-kugel-with-cardamom-and-apples-molly-yeh\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T18:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:15:59","slug":"noodle-kugel-with-cardamom-and-apples-molly-yeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=174083","title":{"rendered":"Noodle Kugel with Cardamom and Apples \u2014 molly yeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Hotdish : My Upper Midwest Fronds :: Kugel : Me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>[Hotdish is to my upper Midwest fronds as kugel is to me.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Not in the way that kugel was a dish that we ate on a regular basis for dinner growing up, but rather in the way that I just assumed that everybody grew up with it and took a nostalgic comfort in it. Like I literally thought that everyone knew kugel until last year, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixfeastflair.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alana<\/strong><\/a> talked to me about her first experience about it. I was in shock that she\u2019d never had it! <em>It\u2019s like a\u2026 sweet mac and cheese? It was\u2026 interesting! But in a good way! <\/em>And then I met a dozen more people with the same reaction at the Fargo Hotdish Festival when Bernbaum\u2019s brought an amazing kugel to compete with tater tot hotdishes of all sorts. It dawned on me then that not everyone knows this dish that was so central to my childhood holidays and I suddenly had to figure out a way to explain it and convince my fronds that it totally deserved to be classified as a hotdish. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">And seriously, if you bend the definition of a vegetable to mean, well, fruit then you\u2019ve got it: the cottage cheese mixture is your sauce, the noodles are your starch, the nuts are your protein, and the raisins\/cherries\/apples are your produce. Hotdish. Sold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Flavor-wise, think of it as rice pudding made with noodles! And baked! Or, ok, a slightly sweet, a teensy bit sour, and kind of souffl\u00e9-like mac and cheese. And for all of the times I\u2019ve made fun of Eggboy for having sweet cookie salad alongside the main course of his meal (as opposed to as dessert), I now owe him an apology because kugel, in all of its dessert-leaning glory, is part of the main course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The kugel that my mom made growing up was based on Emeril\u2019s recipe. It was such a great combination of richness and milkiness and it had the perfect touch of cinnamon and sugar, as well as a toasty nutty topping. It was, and continues to be, the only place that I will eat cottage cheese. For some reason it\u2019d been a really really long time since we had it at holidays and it wasn\u2019t until the Fargo Hotdish Festival that I was reminded of it because Bernbaum\u2019s kugel was so similar. It brought me right back to kugel of my youth, but it had the one inspiring addition of granny smith apples. I LOVED this addition because it added color, crunch, and brightness to an otherwise super heavy dish. So I stole the idea. I added it to my family kugel, along with some cardamom and a bit of lemon for additional depth of flavor, and I fine tuned the sweetness to create the new and improved family kugel that Bernie is going to grow up with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">And it\u2019s of course only fitting that I\u2019m using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourfamilyfoods.com\/\"><strong>Our Family<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>goodies to make Our Family Kugel! They make it easy to make this recipe since their cottage cheese and sour cream comes in big enough tubs that you end up using just a whole big tub of each.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Make this for Rosh Hashanah <em>or <\/em>it\u2019s also great prepped in advance, so make it for Yom Kippur break fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">L\u2019Shana Tovah, everyone!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotdish : My Upper Midwest Fronds :: Kugel : Me.\u00a0 [Hotdish is to my upper Midwest fronds as kugel is to me.] Not in the way that kugel was a dish that we ate on a regular basis for dinner growing up, but rather in the way that I just assumed that everybody grew up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[14520,13976,69521,5906,21372,27667],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-174083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baking-category-a-b","tag-apples","tag-cardamom","tag-kugel","tag-molly","tag-noodle","tag-yeh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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