What is "kasha"? (sp?)

[email] writes:

Porridge? Hmmm, maybe this will turn into a jewish cooking dialogue (like the spelling of "bris") Hope not, but my mom's *excellent* "kasha varnishka" is: Buckwheat grains, bowtie pastas, onions, and some other stuff that makes it oh so good. It doesn't really resemble porridge, though. Who knows, i could be wrong.

--Heather

In [email] (Heather Gottlieb) writes:

Heather:

I agree that kasha doesn't resemble porridge, but that's the "official" definition I got from Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, tenth edition. So who am I to argue?

Larry Sherman

Kasha is a Russian-Jewish dish made of buckwheat, extremely high in protein.

Drew