[SOC] Happy Hannukah

[Reicher, James]

Fred, 
 
You've probably never had homemade gefilte fish, not the store-bought hockey pucks from Manichewitz that taste like cardboard soaked in chicken broth.
 
I make my own, out of salmon, onion, egg and matzo meal.  I boil it in a mixture of white wine, onion, celery, and dill.  I then serve it with home-made horseradish, hand ground and grown in my own garden.  Mmm, Mmm, good!
 
You gotta watch that you useWHITE wine, though.  One year, I didn't have any white in the house and substituted with some red.  The flavor was good, but it tinted them just enough to look flesh colored.  
 
And they were round.  :)
 

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From: soc-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Fred Jensen
Sent: Mon 12/3/2007 6:35 PM
To: Second Class Operators' Club
Subject: Re: [SOC] Happy Hannukah



Reicher, James wrote:
> HAPPY HANNUKAH

> Finally, the straw that broke the reindeer's back was the realization
> that Jewish households had far more delicious cuisine to offer.
> Gefilte fish, chicken soup, blintzes, knishes and the like are more
> palatable than the milk and cookies he got bored of after the second
> century.

OK, chicken soup, blintzes, and knishes work.  Gefilte fish?  My wife's
heritage is from SD, MN, and WI [mainly Norwegian] where they delighted
in eating lutifisk and lefsa each Christmas.  OK, they "say" they
delighted, some didn't eat much.  I've done this -- hey, I joined the
family, you eat the food -- it isn't all that good although it *is*
memorable -- fish soaked in lye.  Didn't Garrison Kieler ask, "If it is
so good, how come they don't eat it the rest of the year?

Now, nuoc mam is quite different, and truly addictive.  A fermented fish
sauce with huge amounts of peppers.  We should introduce the Norwegians
to the Vietnamese.  Different takes on the same ingredient ... rotten fish.

Happy Hannukah and Merry Christmas to my team of Second Class Ops,

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2008 Cal QSO Party  4-5 Oct 08
- www.cqp.org
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