I can’t remember when or why I started doing it, but instead of handing out chunks of smoked fish over the Holidays, I started making a spread. I wish I would have come up with the idea sooner. My family seems to like getting a tub of the spread more than the chunks of fish, and it makes the smoked fish go further. It’s easy to make, too. I just take a couple of pieces of the smoked fish and crumble it up into a bowl. I stir the fish thoroughly to find any bones that were in the fillets. Then I add a generous amount of dill. In the large bowl that I use I mix two blocks of cream cheese. I have found that if I put the unwrapped cream cheese on a plate and put it in the microwave for two or three minutes it becomes very soft and mixing it with the fish is much easier. While the mixture is still warm, I use a spatula to fill small rectangular snack tubs, that hold just over a cup. I can usually fill three or four of them. I let it cool a bit and then refrigerate.