Great Minds

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Clarissa

November 26, 2014

Grabbed the phone to send a text message to my husband to ask him to buy firewood. And saw that there was a message from him to me saying, “Please buy firewood.”

Great minds think alike but some of them think faster than others.

Now I have to go get firewood before I proceed to cook the planned dishes for our Jewish Thanksgiving.

“I had no idea Jewish people had Thanksgiving,” a student said after I shared this information in class.

So I had to explain that I invented my own Jewish Thanksgiving because I need to perfect my gefilte fish recipe.

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9 responses to “Great Minds”

n8chz

November 27, 2014

Gefilte fish? Being a denizen of the Mississipi River basin, do you use Asian Carp?

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 27, 2014
  
  I use milkfish and tilapia. My Ashkenazi ancestors are rolling in their graves. 🙂
  
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musteryou

November 27, 2014

It’s unfortunate that you need to blow people up with gelignite, especially as they may be unsuscpecting.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 27, 2014
  
  I can’t go to sleep before the stupid gelatin in the gefilte fish begins to set. And it is really more likely to ignite than to set, it seems.
  
  This is a very time-consuming dish.
  
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  1. musteryou
    
    November 27, 2014
    
    I’m dying my hair using henna. It seems to take a long time and then I need to rinse it when I am ready but not wash it for two days.
    
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el

November 27, 2014

\\ So I had to explain that I invented my own Jewish Thanksgiving because I need to perfect my gefilte fish recipe.

You are a better Jew than me. 🙂 I am indifferent to gefilte fish in the best case.

What I love are fried cod (жаренный на сковороде хек – in case “cod” means several fish in English) and salomon baked with cheese. One can add eggs too to the salomon.

I don’t like the smell of fish and those two fish cooked in this particular way seem to barely have any fish smell at all.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 27, 2014
  
  “I am indifferent to gefilte fish in the best case.”
  
  – Everybody is until they try mine. 🙂 This time I refused to do the Polish Jew thing and add sugar, so I made it sweet with beets. And the jelly is all beet red now! This will be hardcore.
  
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Shakti

November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving isn’t a religious holiday. I’m astonished that your students think this. Nobody gets into separation of church and state debates over this holiday! If anything, it’s a New England harvest regional holiday adopted by other regions of the country with nationalistovertones.. It is very much a holiday of national myth-making and amnesia.

My brother has decided it’s not Thanksgiving without the turkey. He just brought home an insane amount of turkey along with sides from Boston Market. I have just put a pumpkin pie in the oven. I will probably put in some samosas, and might make some fried banana peppers later. I miss the parts of my family who live up north.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 27, 2014
  
  “Thanksgiving isn’t a religious holiday. I’m astonished that your students think this.”
  
  – No, religion wasn’t discussed at all. If people around here know anything about Jews, they know it from me. And the very first information I share is: practicing Judaism and being Jewish are not the same thing. 🙂
  
  “He just brought home an insane amount of turkey along with sides from Boston Market. I have just put a pumpkin pie in the oven. I will probably put in some samosas, and might make some fried banana peppers later.”
  
  – Sounds phenomenal! Have fun!
  
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