[Avodah] soup

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 02:52:22PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 6/07/2011 1:40 PM, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
>> "daisa", which is a hot cereal, similar to farina or oatmeal.
>
> Daisa is just a translation of the Yiddish "kashe", which means any
> cooked grain.  Rice, barley, buckwheat, quinoa, etc.  Even potatoes are
> sometimes called "kashe", because they fill the same culinary niche.

Quinoa might be "kashe" in that sense of the word, but I doubt it
or potatos would qualify as daisa (lit: grits).

Last I recall from our annual "is qiunoa qitniyos?" threads of years
back, qinoa are seeds from a plant that is related to beets and spinach,
not grain.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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