the remaking of a kitchen

today has been unbelievably cold, and a great day for meeting a friend for lunch. i suggested the place and i hadn't really eaten inside.....just picked up sandwiches to-go several times during a break from setting up an art festival. i even got there first.....an amazing thing. my friend brought a friend of hers along, so that was nice.....the 3 of us will meet again next month for lunch at the mia.
anyway, it's a deli and restaurant, and a treat......i had latkes with sour cream and apple sauce and they were great, if a bit greasier than i prefer. they had blintzes, and all other sorts of goodies, but i couldn't pass on the latkes. there is also a bakery and i had to check it out. they had rugelach and hamantashen, some yummy looking onion rolls, but alas they are not a substitute for friedman's bakery. they didn't have the wonderful sweet cheese rolls, the rolled pastry with cream cheese, sour cream and sultana raisins or the other fabulous treats i remember. those dollar size pastries that were unresistable and calorie free for sure.....they were too small for calories!! of course. i suspect i may never find the equal of friedman's. mrs. friedman always said they used old country recipes and no one else could do it.....i think she may have told the truth!