Something I'll have to try to cook someday

[xiphias]

At the seder we went to tonight, one of the other guests was an exchange student from France. He lives in Paris, he's going to Bentley College in Waltham for a semester, and his family's from Tunisia. One of the things served in the meal was gefilte fish, as is common in Ashkenazic seders. He asked what it was, I explained a little about gefilte fish, what's in it, how it's made, and he said that his grandmother made something somewhat similar -- chopped up fish with matzah meal, eggs, onions, spices and so forth, fomed into balls. But, naturally, the spices she uses are completely different -- and, instead of being boiled, it's deep fried.

Doesn't that sound just decadent? Imagine gefilte fish, but with cardimom and rose water and stuff like that, and deep fried to a golden brown with a crisp crust. I have to try making this some time.

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i'll try an remember...

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

to look it up, but i think i might have a recipe for something like this. will check this weekend. if i don't, pop me off an email and i'll do it :) or maybe tonight... i have this great book of jewish recipies, both sephardic and ashkenazi.

mmm. gefilte fish.

"n"