hey code monkey!!!

[Ikyoto]

i'M WATCHING COOKING TV AND AM LEARNING to make poish gfelta fish and kreplach! Kosher is good cooking! As soon as we finish the previous batch of beans and cili I"m doing matza balls, gfelta and kreploch!

[cid]

WHAT!?!?! No more beans'n'chili???

...sob...we've lost another one...sigh...

[Swift]

The REAL way to make Gefilte fish, as told by a real Jewish mother

http://www.haruth.com/jhumor/JHumor21GefilteFish.html

(the Cleveland Plain Dealer published a photo essay version of this about 15 years ago that had me in tears)

Suggest that your daughter take a day off from work so that she can watch you make the fish, so she'll know how to do it for her kids after she has put you in The Home.

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Lugging three heavy shopping bags filled with fish, take three buses home, unless someone has told you about a way of taking four.

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Rev up those Hadassah arms and attack the ingredients with a dull bladed hockmesser for 90 minutes. Demand that your daughter acknowledge the superiority of your withered arm over a horsepower motor.

Place your hand on your chest and moan. Accept your daughter's offer to help. Give her the bowl and the hockmesser.

Twelve seconds later, snatch the bowl and chopper out of your daughter's hands. Tell her to watch carefully so she'll be more of a help next year. Pulverize the fish with your chopper for another 52 minutes.

The real Jewish mother in my life when I was a kid was my Great Aunt Rose. The author must have personally known her.

By the way, I actually made Gefilte fish with my mom when I was a kid... once. It is a heck of a lot of work.

But I also love it (the bottled is fine).

[code monkey]

i'M WATCHING COOKING TV AND AM LEARNING to make poish gfelta fish and kreplach! Kosher is good cooking! As soon as we finish the previous batch of beans and cili I"m doing matza balls, gfelta and kreploch!

nadia g(bitchen kitchen) did a version of gefilte fish that you might enjoy. (n.b. it means filled fish.)

here is how to make knaidlach mit neshomes (dumplings with souls), the version of matzoh balls that my family likes.
take some of the dough and add more cinnamon. enough to significantly darken the dough.
use some of this as the center of each knaidl.

btw, i know that there are people who re frantic to make their matzoh balls light and fluffy (add seltzer! don't mix the dough too much ...) i prefer them to have some substance. my dear sister refers to them as cannon balls. somehow she always manages to polish off her serving.

[Swift]

btw, i know that there are people who re frantic to make their matzoh balls light and fluffy (add seltzer! don't mix the dough too much ...) i prefer them to have some substance. my dear sister refers to them as cannon balls. somehow she always manages to polish off her serving.

Yeah, my family was always of the light and fluffy school of matzoh balls, and yes, my wife has done the seltzer trick (she makes a nice matzoh ball). My dad used to call my Aunt Rose's "sinkers", and he didn't mean that as a compliment.

[Ikyoto]

GOOD MATZO BALLS SHOULD OUTWEIGH THE PERSON TRYING TO EAT THEM.

[SciFi Chick]

I've never had a matzo ball.

[Loresinger]

Hum, Iky it sounds like the same equation you have for lasagna.

[brite]

Hum, Iky it sounds like the same equation you have for lasagna.

You mean a lasagna shouldn't weigh a minimum of 15 pounds going into the oven??

[Loresinger]

transfer lasagna by crane... feed small army.

[Swift]

I've never had a matzo ball.

WHAT!?!

There was to be a nice Jewish deli in the DC area. You need a road trip.

Of course, now that I've said that, you'll try one and hate it. If you don't like dumplings and that kind of food, don't try a matzo ball.