i am giving my dad the gift of salmon for jewmas this year

[fizzgig]

i'm going to make lox and smoked salmon with a stocking of everything bagels, cream cheese, capers, red onions and rye crackers.

i've been in a pretty terrible funk lately, but today is the drop-dead deadline to get it started and the fire has been lit under my ass. i just really wish it didn't require a trip to whole foods on a saturday.

[RandySF]

1. I LOVE LOVE LOVE salmon.

[fizzgig]

2. it's one of his favorite foods

i think he was a grizzly in a previous life.

[Major Nikon]

12. I'm not a big fan of most salmon

However, I do like lox and cold smoked salmon on bagels. I've been meaning to try this...

[elleng]

3. You are such a good kid!

[fizzgig]

6. it's a more personal present than the tire patch kit i got him

and i have that jewish mother part of me that loves to feed people.

[elleng]

8. Gotcha!

I brought latkes (Trader Joe's frozen) to NJ last week for grandson's 2d birthday celebration!

[fizzgig]

9. mmmmmmmm

sister and i are too lazy to do latkes on jewmas, so it's going to be potato kuegel and brisket.

[elleng]

10. Was glad to hear from neighbor that TJ's are good,

so NO PROB! I agree, they're a pain to do 'fresh,' and as haven't been WITH family for years at Hanukkah, I've almost forgotten. Brisket, now THAT's a different thing! WILL do it some time this winter, I promise!

[fizzgig]

11. i'll look into tj's since we finally have one in town

the brisket is a revenge brisket from last jewmas when the power went out. we finished it on the grill but i trusted my sister to put it on low heat.........................

yeah, it wasn't that great.

[packman]

4. God I love salmon anything

But it wrecks hell out of my gout. What a creation - a good bagel, Philadelphia cream cheese, brine soaked capers, a slice of Vadalia sweet onion ( red is OK) and a bottle of cream soda. I'm drooling just thinking of it.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. Maybe we need a gout support group onsite :P

I'm very close to the first anniversary of my discovery of just how godawful the condition is. I had half my foot soaking in ice-water for two days before I managed to get in to see anyone for it, that was the only way I could numb the pain. I've been pretty good, but the toe has twinged a number of times, and every time it does, I go meatless for a bit and pop some precautionary indomethacin and allopurinol. So far, knock on wood, no major relapse attacks.

[fizzgig]

7. there are few things like it