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).