Recipe: Banana, coconut and lime spring rolls

I know I am beginning to sound like a record — or should I say a CD or a download? Everything moves on so quickly. Just when you get used to one sort of gadget to make your life easier, what happens? They bring out another, and life gets more difficult. My HDTV has compatibility issues with my DVD player (maybe I should have paired them up through JDate?). These days you need an “ology”, or a language degree, just to understand the manual (mine came in Chinese.)

In the kitchen, technology has also taken over. I have even discovered a fridge that gives you the calorie content of whatever you eat. Maybe one day they will invent a satnav that can guide my family to the kitchen to CLEAN UP after themselves. Or even better, how about a self-cleaning sink?

So this Chanucah, as you place orders on your Apple Mac, receive email offers through your BlackBerry, or when you are sending a photo down the Orange network, just remember that real food for Chanucah needs to be fried in good, old-fashioned oil, in a deep fat fryer. Unfortunately they haven’t thought of a way to make the oil that miraculously lasted for eight days in the Chanucah story, instantly disappear when you have finished cooking with it.

The Jewish Princess writes with the help of Tracey Fine and Georgie Tarn (above). See www.thejewishprincess.com.