Calling New Yorkers! Help me with my next article!

And weekend recipes!

Greetings, worldwide family and remaining non-Jewish friends!

I want to get back to writing about antisemitism and the insanity that is afflicting our civic life for a national audience. I’d love your help! Those of you who are in New York City: can you share with me a few lines about your thoughts on the rise of Mamdani, what it may mean for you and your family, how/if you are experiencing antisemitism, if you feel safe going to your place of worship, if you are concerned about your children’s safety, what you are doing about it, etc.? I can quote you anonymously, of course, or if you’d like me to use your name, I’d be happy to. Entirely up to you. I’ve done pieces like this for Splice Today before, where I let people speak for themselves and just provide the larger platform for them to be heard. These things tend to get more traction when they are shared on some conservative sites, thanks to my dear friend Mark Judge, so your words will not disappear into the void!

Send me a message on Substack with your quote, or send me an email at my last.first at gmail (yes, I was an early adopter and make sure it goes to last.first - someone else got first.last before I did!) and I’ll quote you.

Next I’d like to do reflections from my Jewish and non-Jewish Zionist friends on the current state of antisemitism where you are, so if you’d like to contribute to that one, go ahead! Send away!

Also, please feel free to share this post with others who might want to speak out but are not subscribers. I’d be happy to hear from all! If I get too many quotes I’ll do multiple articles.

Meanwhile, I’ve spent a lot of this chilly weekend cooking! Here are some winter recipes that I made:

Post-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving for my friend Ken, who never gets a homecooked meal unless I cook it:

Dollar Store Beef Stroganoff:

1 pound ground beef, humanely raised from the handsome Lancaster farmer at the farmers’ market (yes, I check out guys at the farmers’ market. It’s fairly innocent, as these things go.)

2 cans Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup

1 bag wide egg noodles

Brown the ground beef, stir it into the soup, serve over noodles. You can add sour cream or fresh mushrooms if you want to make your life more difficult, or you can just do it the easy way!

Warm, Green Farmers’ Market soup:

3 leeks from the handsome Lancaster farmer

1 bunch of collard greens with leaves as large as elephant ears from farmers who were not notably handsome or otherwise, but it’s not really their job to be eye-candy, is it?

vegetable or chicken broth, the cheaper the better

pepper

Make the broth, chop the green vegetables, throw it all into boiling water, and boil for a long time. Add my mother’s chicken if you want. Or, if you don’t know the handsome farmer or my mom, just get your vegetables and chicken where you get them.

Teacher Power Protein Breakfast Muffins With No Flour

5 eggs from the handsome Lancaster farmer (Livengood Farms, if you go to the farmers’ market here. I’ve known him for ten years and watched his sons grow up. I promise I won’t ask him out as he is clearly married, and married men, however attractive, however good farmers, are on the list of unavailable men)

1 cup liquid egg whites

1 red pepper diced

Shredded cheddar or other cheese

Pepper

Blend all but the cheese together. Pour into muffin tins, this recipe makes 12 large muffins

Bake at 400 until they start to look solid and puffy

Top with the cheese, carefully so as to not make cleaning any harder than it is

Bake until cheese is melted.

These store beautifully in the fridge in a ziplock bag and can be popped into the microwave and heated for a fast, healthy and sustaining breakfast before you leave for a school just after 6 am. Or do whatever it is that you do.

I’ve also made this recipe adding cottage cheese and/or Greek yogurt. I recommend the full fat kind but you do you.

It’s cold, it’s wet, our world is dangerous, I risk getting hit by a car or random gun violence every day, and I thank the Father Cat God for returning me safely to Loviefluffy. Praying for your safety as well, and that we are fortified by healthy food to do what we can in our own spheres to… do what we can do.

This is actually a picture of a fritatta made by my Mother In Grace, Mother of MR, Mother of Giraffe, but it’s almost exactly like the muffins I was describing. You can also make the muffin ingredients in a baking dish like this, but you may need to stir repeatedly to get the center to cook. Kinda like moderates in this country, eh? We gotta keep stirring to get ourselves to cook!

Yeah, I can’t believe I wrote that either. Anyway, eat your protein and veggies and be safe out there!