Bet You Don't Know What This Is

Guess it's time to post again... I've actually been quite busy, and with lots of projects plans, but no down time when both the animals are sleeping, I have to rotate. Anyways, I thought it was time to write about one of the mystery ingredients on "Chopped" and cross something off my list.

So have you ever heard of... Gefilte fish? No, you haven't? What's wrong with you?

Ok, just kidding. Unless you're Jewish, you probably haven't heard of gefilte fish. I never had until it showed up in the Mystery Basket.

What is it, you ask? Well, obviously it's Jewish. Gefilte means stuffed or filled, based from the German word with the same meaning. Basically, white fish is ground into a paste, then boiled with carrots and onions. Then you shove it into a whole fish and cook it. Think Thanksgiving stuffing stuffed into the turkey. I guess modern cooks are really lazy, because according to the website I checked out, most gefilte fish is no longer actually stuffed into the whole fish. So if you think about it, it should be called "Not Gefilte Fish." But I'm sure there's pure forms out there.

So I guess they are served in patties with some horseradish-vinegar sweetened sauce (give me some of that, please!). They look disgusting, you should Google Image it. (Because I'm way too lazy right now to upload a picture to this post).

And I just had to go cockroach hunting. Or at least keep the dog and cat away while Matt killed it.

Ok. Well. So why would people want to eat gefilte fish? Jewish people eat it because one of their laws on the Sabbath includes "not deboning fish." Since gefilte fish doesn't have bones in it, they can eat it quite easily! And it was probably made ahead of time.

Eeeehhhh, I'm not sure if I could eat this. Maybe if you didn't tell me what it was... this is based mostly on the fact that 1. it looks disgusting, and 2. I'm not so much into white fish, which gefilte fish is primarily made of.

So happy eating!