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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • Jewish brisket is different from Texas smoked brisket. First of all, it’s braised rather than smoked. It’s cooked with carrots, celery and onions in a mixture of crushed tomatoes and wine and seasoned relatively simply with salt, garlic, pepper, thyme and bay leaves. While I think the smoked kinds are generally better sliced thin on a sandwich, a braised Jewish brisket is such a core memory of the Passover Sedar (the ceremonial meal described in the Haggadah) that I savor it in its own way. I’ve made em for Rosh Hashanah as well. All that’s to say, your milage may vary and so you might not find it to your liking.

    BUT, the method is fairly simple.

    Season a whole brisket with salt and pepper, brown it in a large roasting pan. Once browned, remove it and add in your aromatics (onion, carrot, garlic, celery, whatever you want) and brown those slightly too. Deglaze with wine, add in Dr. Pepper or cola, add in tomatoes and ketchup (use less if using soda). Add the brisket back in, your herbs, then roast low and slow at around 275°F to 300°F for 3 to 4 hours, should be fork tender. Once it’s cooked, pull it out, let it rest for like a half hour, slice it thin, put it back in the roasting pan with the juices, baste it, cover it, let it sit somewhere warm for another half hour while it soaks up the braising liquid.

    Ideally you want a brisket with the deckle, but if you got a first cut brisket, don’t trim the fat, you wanna render that out during the cook. You can skim it off the resulting braising liquid after the cook if you’d like.

    Also the recipe isn’t set in stone. Play with it! It’s supposed to be a bit sweet, so I’ve thrown in figs and apricots, seasoned the top of sumac and pomegranate, za’atar isn’t unwelcome here, if atypical.



  • The… lies of the Haggadah? The book so benign I can get copies published by ShopRite? Oh no, he’s going to out the dark truth that Pesach was never meant to come with a 4 drink minimum and the secret to singing Chad Gadyah in a round while plastered! What’s next? Will he expose the ancient Jewish secret to a good brisket is actually Dr. Pepper?

    Edit: Obviously this dude is a dangerous Neo-Nazi and the Earth shouldn’t suffer him breathing it’s precious oxygen, but we gotta laugh or else we’ll cry, right?




  • Here’s singing the praises of Shapez 2. If you like factory games, don’t skip this one. It eschews things like resource management and abstracts construction into simple terms in order to make a satisfying, simple, low stress factory game. It has a phenomenal blueprint system that makes building modular factories a piece of cake and the devs are truly involved with the community and you can see that they listen to the players as they improve the game.

    Also, works well on Steam Deck! (Tho it’s faster to build on the desktop with their handy hotkeys. I use a community made control layout that took a bit to get used to, but offers access to most of the convenient features) It’s great to pick up and play for a few minutes or hours.