tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525672278128802551.post5702666872480039742..comments2024-02-26T03:18:41.469-05:00Comments on Alan Divack's (mostly food) blog: Comfort food: Krupnik (Hubagrits suppe) , in the style of PruzhaneAlan Divackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05068865893572719590noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525672278128802551.post-62554274458397879772023-01-12T04:13:33.624-05:002023-01-12T04:13:33.624-05:00Hello Alan! I'm from Canada and stumbled on y...Hello Alan! I'm from Canada and stumbled on your blog searching for soups using steel-cut oats (due to diabetes type 2), and also I'm so interested in recipes from other cultures. Your soup sounds so wonderful. Will definitely try it. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525672278128802551.post-29027475573592684742012-12-04T15:15:01.851-05:002012-12-04T15:15:01.851-05:00Thanks Varda! Although the schmaltz is wonderful, ...Thanks Varda! Although the schmaltz is wonderful, you can probably also try a vegetarian version, leaving out the schmaltz as well as the meat and bones. I have been meaning to try it this way for a while. I would probably increase the veggies and brown them, and of course use some Osem powder. You might also try making a mushroom barley soup, but substitution the oats. Alan Divackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05068865893572719590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525672278128802551.post-63157162959336680212012-12-04T13:19:05.701-05:002012-12-04T13:19:05.701-05:00I found your blog while googling: savory oatmeal r...I found your blog while googling: savory oatmeal recipes. I found your comment with a link to this blog post on an article. Two months ago, my doctor said it was time for me to go on statins for my high cholesterol. I begged him to let me try using dietary measures first. He gave me one month. I ate oatmeal every night last month, 3 hours before bed. I also drank green tea and ate a handful of walnuts every day, but my mainstay of this diet to lower my cholesterol was definitely the oatmeal, sweetened only with good, juicy medjul dates.<br /><br />I brought my cholesterol down to within the values of my HMO, though still on the high side. I was psyched, but getting sick of oatmeal.<br /><br />I'm a Litvak too, and as you know, we aren't that fond of sweet stuff. So I decided I wanted to experiment with savory oatmeal.<br /><br />Your soup sounds wonderful and I can't wait to try it here in Efrat, in the Judean Hills. Love your blog. And I will definitely use schmaltz :-) Have some in my freezer, as a matter of fact, along with little packets of griebben, which we like to sprinkle in our chicken soup.Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17159600299817776906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525672278128802551.post-54807329669343122432011-01-08T23:23:50.882-05:002011-01-08T23:23:50.882-05:00To update this recipe a bit, I added parsnip. And...To update this recipe a bit, I added parsnip. And readers should be glad to know that my wife has now decided that she likes this soup, and my son even eats it. He started eating soup on Kibbutz Ketura in the Negev, and found it comforting on a cold evening after a long days work. He no longer considers soup to be cosmically dubious.Alan Divackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05068865893572719590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525672278128802551.post-52066663528418002552010-02-24T11:56:10.039-05:002010-02-24T11:56:10.039-05:00I made this soup when my parent's came for din...I made this soup when my parent's came for dinner on Friday night, and my father said it tasted just like his mother's. However, he did say she would have used large rather than small limas, which I knew. However they did take some home for themselves and to bring to their cousins.Alan Divackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05068865893572719590noreply@blogger.com