Re: Meandering Jerri Type Post

"Annie"  wrote:

> I don't know if The Gefilte Fish Chronicles aired on my pbs station but
if
> it did I'm sorry I missed it. It's always interesting seeing how
something
> you know intimately is seen by other people, although I sometimes get
mighty
> annoyed by the more glaring errors.

This was an actual family with elderly sisters guiding the
preparation. They seemed to have a handle on how it's done. I thought
they went above and beyond the call of duty when the members of the
family doing the gefilte fish were pinching off and eating pieces of
the raw fish mixture to check for seasoning. I thought it was
absolutely authentic that one sister kept insisting everything needed
more salt, while everyone else was trying to hold her back. My 4
sisters and I are just like that, arguments and all.

> I'm way behind schedule what with only 4 more days left and I have at
least
> 7 days worth of intensive cleaning, shopping and cooking to do. This is
my
> least favorite Jewish holiday, it even supersedes Yom Kippur and that
> holiday involves more than 25 hours of fasting and spending almost the
> entire day at synagogue praying.

That's a lot of work. Beyond my capability. As Rudyard Kipling might
have said, "You're a better man than I, Gunga Din."
Jerri [too lazy to leave cookies out for Santa Claus]