this weekend Chanukah celebrations will
be wrapping up but there is still plenty
of time to enjoy some delicious
Jewish food is some Jewish soul yes yes
our Michelle Oliver is taking us the
Commerce Township to dine in the D and a
classic Jewish deli Seagal brush
sandwiches made fast and piled high with
meat is what makes this deli tick
welcome to Siegel's deli we have to go
fast there's a line out the door almost
every day so our main object is just
produce food fast and get the customer a
few as quickly as possible
Siegel's has been in the area for about
20 years now originally it was named
after Elias Siegel he's the original
owner he opened up to the ice cream shop
at first and then he changed to a deli
shortly after Edison and his brother
Alvis bought the deli in September of
2017 on a tip from their mom she was
actually a dishwasher when it first
opened up and she worked her way up from
a dishwashing tough prep to cook and now
she's our manager in the back there she
told us about it and she asked us a very
interested and he said yeah we'll find a
way to make it happen and a week later
we're signed on the dotted line and
things haven't slowed down since this
quaint Jewish deli gets packed around
mealtime we're known for corned beef
sandwiches we make it fresh we cook it
daily most people can't kind of toast by
themselves that's always known for
people come in here and get pounds and
pounds at a time so I'm never sailing
about a pound itself they have other
deli classics including LOX giant salads
and even matzo ball soup
we start off by making the soup part of
the matzo ball soup which involves
cutting up a lot of vegetables we pour
them into some hot water to cook and
once it starts to boil we add in some
chicken base so that will be the soup
now on to the matzo balls we have a
bunch of eggs already scrambled now what
are we adding these are loading we can
folder here right a little bit of white
pepper for flavor then we add the matzo
meal what is a matzo ball is it's kind
like bread right kind of its kind of
like bread is kind of spongy to it you
know how you dip bread into soup and
then you eat bread that's like
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kind of looks like pizza dough exit yeah
just kind of look like pizza dough or
like kind of grits
once it's all mixed we let it sit for a
while so it can rise and get more firm
then we roll them out they must grow a
lot because they're not a new experience
they are not these are small in
comparison to what I've seen
after another quick roll we drop them
into some boiling water to cook how
tight do you need them pretty tight
because if you don't loan we'll start
breaking apart once the soup if the
matzo balls are done cooking we put them
together along with some noodles and
it's ready wow that looks good well
joining us today in the studio is Edison
Boucher he's the co-owner of Siegel's
deli thanks for being here instrument
now we come back to ourselves because we
were dizzy in the food you've got a
wonderful spread here so would you bring
I got a little everything guys over here
yeah I got a classic Reuben I mean you
can't have a deli and I have a good
Reuben exactly so just your sauerkraut
cheese russian dressing on grilled rye
bread moving on we got a apple strudel
that my mom makes Vicki yes yes she's a
family operation course yes she making
she kills it anyway then we have a
number 6 is super Shami with Swiss
cheese Russian and coleslaw I mean can
you count the layers it's a one for
yourself have it for lunch exactly
unless you're bold enough to figure this
is one of our trays we're really popular
with our catering trays we saw a lot of
them it's a lot of our business turkey
roast beef turkey roast beef corned beef
turkey pastrami pickles and then moving
on we got some reuben egg rolls just
surprised like I would never I've never
seen a room of burnt really pop where
all of a sudden so we try to we Hannah
roll Mary born in it's a lot to do
sometimes by orders so and then move for
we have our salad blue and others
lettuce under there so there's pastrami
salami corned beef and Turkey with some
cheese over there great yeah it's a new
one it's as chicken chefs french fries
Swiss cheese coleslaw russian dressing
it's named after my when my best
friend's so he came up with a sandwich
it's called that's my quarter rack he's
he was my high school quarterback yeah
he can't throw a ball to save his life
but he can make a good
that's a great sandwich you gotta have
some talents yes they need to try one of
these just to yeah help yourself please
eyeing them all morning all right so
while Kip is tasting tell us about your
catering one more time um we do a lot of
catering we can service up to like 500
people as little as 10 to 500 um
especially don't know how it is it's a
really big hit for us so we're on
Haggerty or we're on maple
just south of Haggerty all right if you
guys want to try out seagulls we are
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