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Now’s the time for football miracles

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Last week, after writing about Jerry’s freighting experience in Israel, I was emotionally drained, and decided to just write atibout a yummy favorite on Chanukkah, sufganiot (doughnuts!).

While in my dentist’s office in the city a few weeks ago, one of the dental assistants asked me if I ever heard of the recipe that is said to taste exactly like the famous Krispie Kreme brand. I hadn’t, but was only too happy to have her send it to me. Unfortunately I can’t credit the original chef who figured out this recipe as the assistant didn’t have that information. In any event, I was all set to send the article in a day early, but decided instead I’d send it in the morning. And then the fun began.

I belong to two football pools. One a suicide pool — each week you enter a team you think will have best chance of winning; if the team wins, you move onto next week, and so on till only one person remains. Only catch is, once you pick a team, you can’t pick them again. It gets tougher as the weeks go by. This season there were many upsets and by the 12th week, only three of us were left. That in itself was a miracle. What were the chances, that I, a middle aged Jewish mom would even last a few weeks in a football pool. But I did. And so on Sunday, I watched football all day. I watched my pick, the Chiefs, losing most of the game until the last quarter, when they went ahead and won. Now all I had to hope for were losses by the Jaguars and Patriots. That would leave me winner of the pool.

The Jaguars, favored to win, lost. Do I dare hope that the Patriots — undefeated, 10-0 — would lose as well later that night?

I was going to choose them in my other pool where I had to pick winners for each game. I was tied for third in that pool. I didn’t want to take a chance of picking the opposing team and losing in my other pool so I was going to pick the Patriots for that pool but root for the Broncos. After all a Patriot loss would mean I would win the suicide pool. Jerry said he would pick the Broncos (he hates the Patriots) for my other pool. I told him everyone in the other pool will pick them and I’ll slide down a notch, but I listened to him and picked the Broncos.  

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