{"id":21,"date":"2008-12-25T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2024-07-22T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T22:12:50","slug":"christmas-on-the-5th-day-of-chanukah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/christmas-on-the-5th-day-of-chanukah\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas on the 5th Day of Chanukah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10342\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/IMG_4071-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/IMG_4071-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/IMG_4071-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/IMG_4071-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/IMG_4071-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/IMG_4071-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/IMG_4071-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>The inspiration for our main dish on this covalence of holidays was Mark Bittman&#8217;s potato latkes (pancakes), presented on NBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28350495\">Today Show<\/a>\u00a0December 22. You can see the painstaking process of their creation by clicking on the YouTube video below! My husband was the catalyst and co-chef in the peeling and cooking, as well as the producer of the iMovie. The latkes were served with the traditional applesauce and sour cream, purchased at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safeway.com\/\">Safeway<\/a>.\u00a0Wild Cohoe Smoked Salmon from <a href=\"http:\/\/traderjoes.com\/\">Trader Joe&#8217;s<\/a> \u00a0and deep purple radicchio from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com\/farmers_market\">F<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuesa.org\">erry Plaza Farmer&#8217;s Market<\/a>\u00a0topped with lovely green artichoke hearts from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/costco.com\/\">Costco<\/a>\u00a0completed the meal. Rose&#8217; wine from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liocowine.com\/\">Lioco<\/a> paired perfectly with this food. Our table setting was graced by a beautiful poinsettia (a gift from our friend Janey), a Christmas card from PeeWee Herman and the same menorah I have been using since childhood. Happy Holidays indeed!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<p><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-color: #d5d5d5;\">[https:\/\/youtu.be\/oYRQsdkC9Q0]<\/span><\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The inspiration for our main dish on this covalence of holidays was Mark Bittman&#8217;s potato latkes (pancakes), presented on NBC&#8217;s Today Show\u00a0December 22. You can see the painstaking process of their creation by clicking on the YouTube video below! My husband was the catalyst and co-chef in the peeling and cooking, as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/christmas-on-the-5th-day-of-chanukah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas on the 5th Day of Chanukah&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[48,51,50],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-mark-bittman","tag-nbc","tag-safeway-trader-joes-ferry-plaza-farmers-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10343,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/10343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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