“Both together,” Admony declares, tidying up the kitchen of the sprawling Fort Greene loft she shares with her husband and business partner, Stefan Nafziger, Liam and daughter Mika, 4.
This Thanksgiving will mark the first time in 125 years that Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah fall on the same day, giving Admony a perfect excuse to infuse Thanksgiving classics with some traditional Jewish and Middle Eastern flavors.
“I’ll do some of the stuff that I like and want to eat,” she says, noting plans to do a turkey with pomegranate sauce based on a chicken recipe her mother used to make for Rosh Hashana. But they’ll be spending the holiday with her husband’s relatives in Washington, DC, so she says there will be some more traditional recipes “for the Americans.”
Still, she won’t be cooking pumpkin or pecan pie for her Yankee kin.
“I hate the desserts on Thanksgiving,” says the 5-foot-tall dynamo.
Instead, she plans on serving sufganiyot, an Israeli pastry similar to a donut, for dessert, as a nod to the festival of lights.
“Everything is fried for Hanukkah,” she declares.
The sufganiyot and pomegranate turkey are just a few ideas Admony has for celebrating Thanksgiving-kah. More recipes follow below and online.
