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833rd Friday Blog Roundup

This may be my favourite Twitter thread ever. I read it the same week that Josh told me about a Paul Hollywood recipe for challah that contains milk, not realizing how the two tweets were interconnected.

But can we backup for a moment? MILK. And spells challah “CHOLLA.” Listen, I get that our alphabet is sometimes hard to translate into English letters, but YOU. ARE. NOT. EVEN. TRYING.

I could not stop calling the challah “milk bread” last week. You know, the bread we serve for our bread-free holiday.

Anyway, the original Twitter thread got Bon Appetit to change their offensive hamantashen recipe.

This may be my biggest pet peeve: When there are excellent recipes created by people inside the culture being rewritten by people outside the culture, not to make them accessible to a group of people (such as making hamantaschen gluten-free) or melding two cultures (such as matzo ball ramen) but to make the original culture’s food “better” by a different culture’s standards.

There is no milk in challah. There is no butter in hamantaschen. Or, as she so succinctly puts it:

Do not even get me started on hummus. I have big feelings about hummus.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

  • None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Next 15000 Days has a post about being okay and not okay at the same time. She writes: “Most of the days I feel OK and in peace with my childless life. Sometimes something happens that spoils my peace and then I need my blog to write my thoughts down. I need someone out there to read my lines and tell me that I am not alone.” You’re not alone. And blogging allows us to know that without a doubt.

Scientist on the Roof writes about pandemic fatigue. She explains: “The plague fatigue is because of constant need to make risk evaluations and decisions.” Yes—to all of it. The decisions we have to make. Navigating other people’s decisions. It is exhausting.

Lastly, the book from By the Brooke is here. She writes: “The internet sure can be an ugly place, but this little corner of it has been so, so good to me.” Huge congratulations on the major accomplishment.

The roundup to the Roundup: There is no butter in hamantaschen. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between Feb 12 – Feb 19) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.

7 comments

1 a { 02.19.21 at 8:39 am }

I’ve had your Hamantaschen. They do not need improvement.

2 Phoenix { 02.19.21 at 12:55 pm }

I have been eagerly awaiting this week’s blog round-up so I can share this awesome post, On Grief Shaming, by Grief is the Word. It’s so good and I’ve read it several times. She talks about grief shaming, boundaries with other people, and letting herself grieve. She writes, “I am a living, functioning, growing, and grieving woman. I do not see grief as incompatible with a full and happy life.” https://griefistheword.wordpress.com/2021/02/14/on-grief-shaming/

Also… I kinda want to get you started on hummus. I’m curious. 🙂

3 Sharon { 02.19.21 at 3:57 pm }

You have big feelings about hummus? I must know more. I have never thought much about hummus apart from considering it a dip for fresh vegetables and pitas.

4 Mali { 02.19.21 at 6:21 pm }

I also want you to get started on hummus. I’m a little like this when recipes suggest eating basmati rice with Thai curries!

I once had an American blog reader ask if Mali was pronounced like Molly. It made no sense to me, but perfect sense to her and other US readers. Vowels are funny things. But spelling (even translated) is spelling.

5 Mary { 02.20.21 at 8:09 am }

I would respectfully disagree with your comments about recipes being rewritten by people outside the culture. I thought the original Bon Appetit recipe was funny and a great update on the traditional hamantaschen. I didn’t know and didn’t care if it was written by a Jew or a non-Jew.

And I’m a Jew. Who keeps kosher. And loves to bake. And has never liked hamantaschen. But will definitely be trying the butter-added recipe this year.

6 Phoenix { 02.20.21 at 12:28 pm }

I’m excited to share another post! Jess from My Path to Mommyhood has created a new space, Finding a Different Path. 🙂 Her first post in her new blog space is here: https://findingadifferentpath.blogspot.com/2021/02/oh-hello-welcome-to-my-new-space.html

7 Jess { 02.25.21 at 9:06 pm }

Ugh. I’m sorry that the recipes were off the mark, especially Paul Hollywood’s, which was wrong on many levels. Grrr.

I enjoyed Loribeth’s post on Family Day… https://theroadlesstravelledlb.blogspot.com/2021/02/microblogmondays-pandemic-family-day.html?m=1

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