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Even in this shitshow of a year, we have a lot for which to be thankful here at Chez OMWC/SP. Cooking and enjoying great food and wine is on that list.
Our menu is not that unconventional.
Homegrown arugula salad with homemade bread, Brussels sprouts (probably with pecans), OMWC’s famous celeriac gratin, a very good vegan roast (really!) stuffed with kale and cranberries and wild rice, and homemade pumpkin pie.
And wine. Lots of wine. Lots of very good wine.
Quick poll: What time does your family dine on holidays? Are you middle of the day people, or evening?
Enjoy your day! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Forget about the vid, the new more scarier monster has arrived.
FRAKEN FOOD!!!
We’re all going to die, from food!
“Wheat and barley are staple food crops around the world but
their productionhelicopter rides for commies and authoritarians needs to increase dramatically to meet future food demands,”Fifh.
And I claimz the firstest and the secondest, Broketard has failed again!
Middle of the day. People travel to and from and it makes clean up easier.
Enjoy all.
Middle of the day here, as the sister’s family then needs to go to the other side of the family’s dinner (and they’ve traditionally done it late). Waiting for the puff pastry to thaw enough to do the last bit of meal prep (I forgot to move it to the fridge last night). So I’m oven drying some apple bits that will be used to stuff the pork.
Mid afternoon at my mother-in-law’s, with sufficient drinking.
Bird.
The bird is the word.
I’ll be smoking ribs; half BBQ dry run, half Jerk wet rub.
Things I’m thankful for:
q-ette
How much fun Mrs. Q and I had making q-ette
My job
The rest of the Q clan, even though they’re not coming this year
My collection of firearms currently at the bottom of a lake
My house
My health
The experience of being alive
…and of course tits.
https://archive.li/SaFO4
#1 looks like she needs to make and eat a sandwich.
And…. archive is somehow fucked. I can only see the first picture. Fuck it. Moving on.
To the both of you heathens: There is more in life than tits. There is T&A also!
13… very nice.
25 needs a sammich too,
Wife is going to cook a turkey for the first time ever. We’ve had ham, game hen, duck, but never turkey. In fact, there has never been turkey in our home together, this will be the first turkey.
I hope her stuffing is moist and tasty!
Can you make stuffing safely without drying out the turkey? We switched to dressing years ago.
We have done just a turkey breast before since hardly anyone eats dark meat in the Frankelson household.
Actually, that is what she bought, a turkey breast, not the entire bird.
We did a cajun butter injection, it was marvelous.
I smoked my turkey last night. This morning it carved it up and then warmed it in broth this morning. Turned out great.
I injected it full of apple cider before smoking it and it retained all its juices. Dry turkey is garbage. Done right, it is excellent.
a very good vegan roast (really!) – I’ll believe that when I taste it
And wine. Lots of wine. Lots of very good wine. – how can you drink wine in a hot desert?
It’s not as hot now, it can even snow there, we have many climates in the AmericaLand….
we have many climates in the AmericaLand…. – and they are all too extreme. except maybe parts of California where it is not too extreme but too commie
“we have many climates in the AmericaLand”
Where you are at, sometimes all of them in the same day.
The folks I’m joining today eat late. Looking at the time, I need to go get some shit done around the house and send some Thanksgiving greetings to family and friends.
When I was younger and my one grandmother put together Thanksgiving dinner, it was early to mid afternoon.
We opened all the doors and windows. It has to be at least 70F out. Not a cloud in the sky.
It rain early this morning here, but now it’s 72F. I had to turn the AC back on because of all the cooking.
Quick poll: What time does your family dine on holidays? Are you middle of the day people, or evening? – I suppose this does not apply to Romanians. I feel othered.
All day is the correct answer.
in romania yes
As it is in Romania, so it is here.
We’re normal dinner time (1900-2000 start). SP thinks I’m nuts for that, but that gives me all day to do preps.
You’d enjoy the wine tonight unless you have a perverse aversion to mature Hermitage and Cote-Rotie.
Que syrah, syrah.
We are eating around 2:30, pretty normal for us, here’s my Pie, ugly but it should be tasty,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/8bAsaz2rjyQHgjTk7
Turkey Lurkey Dooo!
Looks good to me.
I’d eat it.
3 1/2 lb. of cherries, it’ll be fine, next one I’ll use a rolling pin,
Rolling pins help, they roll out the butter lumps to produce the flakes in the crust. French style (tapered on both ends) is my preference.
I’ll look into that, an Ale glass worked alright, keep it floured up,
In recent years, we’ve tended to time sit-down-at-the-table based on when the first football game ends and before the second game begins (or is just getting underway.) I don’t even know if we’ll watch football today. We haven’t all season.
In other TV watching news, is it too much to ask The History Channel or American Heroes Channel to show some actual history or heroes on Thanksgiving? Instead, we get either Swamp People or I (Almost) Got Away With It. If I want to see any history on TV, I may have to resort to CSPAN-3.
I still miss Punkin Chunkin’. At least Battlebots is back in one week.
In other TV watching news, is it too much to ask The History Channel or American Heroes Channel to show some actual history or heroes on Thanksgiving?
Yes. I think my favorite thing I saw on the schedule of the American Heroes channel was something like Nazis vs. the Klan. Which ones are the heroes?
A note on etiquette RE: pubic hair.
Men – Clean shaven scrotum and any stray hairs on or near the shaft. The pubic triangle should be trimmed with a No. 1 or 2 guard. Perineum and anal area are optional about being clean-shaven or trimmed with a No. 1.
Women – Landing strip or bare pubic triangle. All other hair removed.
These guidelines are not only for aesthetics but out of consideration for your partner wrt oral sex.
I have made it 45 years without shaving my balls, not going to start now. I don’t mind ladies being au naturel either.
Thank you! The thought of shaving, waxing, or using chemical depilatory there makes me wince.
Or getting a nick from the clippers.
OWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
Plus I need to be able to prove I am an authentic ginger, should the need arise.
::fistbump::
Gross on dudes; hawt for chicks.
See also- ex Mrs Tres Cool
Yeah, ginger dudes are not hot at all.
https://images.app.goo.gl/dHm4njToP28Q4EhAA
(that’s Scut Farkus to you and me)
He had yellow eyes, I swear, yellow eyes!
“His lips curled over his green teeth.”
Nice to see him on Titus in the 00s, and of course in A Xmas Story DVD extras.
“His lips curled over his green teeth.”
That was his crummy little toady.
PS. Grover Dill, his crummy little toady, is apparently also the “two dollars” paperboy in Better Off Dead, but y’all probably knew that.
Yer right, Hyp.
https://kfor.com/news/local/40-foot-tall-leg-lamp-from-a-christmas-story-stands-indescribably-beautifully-in-chickasha/
Well, the beard usually does it for me, but now that I am pushing 50 and going white up top…
Why, no I am not slightly jealous that my older brother, he of the dozens of divorces and an average of a 80-hour workweek still has all of his hair, why would I be?
See I thought hair loss was matrilineal, grandfather and most of his brother’s on my mom’s side had nearly full heads of hair until they died. Turns out that I did not win that genetic lottery, I got my dad’s male pattern baldness. Even better, I started balding in my late teens/early 20’s and started shaving my head around 25. My brother hung onto his locks longer than I did but he has succumbed to the curse as well.
X2 Although I am not very hairy anywhere…. I have never noticed more than 2 or 3 hairs on my chest. On the other hand I know a guy who looks like he’s wearing a gorilla suit – he could braid his back hair. Odd, he can grow hair on every part of his body except the top of his head and was bald before he was 20.
^^^
Late afternoon. Or when the bird is done, whichever is sooner.
A lot quieter since my MIL passed and stepson left. No last minute turkey day invite from my folks, which always pisses my wife off so not a great loss for this year. Just the two of us but still cooking a whole bird. No power tools or driving today, first in a long time, so my coffee is Irish this morning.
https://youtu.be/9Gc4QTqslN4
Cheers sir! You may be ahead of me but I hope to be catching up with some whiskey shortly!
Between 2-3 pm. Always a turkey. Thankful for my wife and 3 healthy daughters
The Great Turkey Cook-Off Of 1796
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgWSa3nSfhc
We are doing T-day tomorrow, for “reasons” of travel, if you get my meaning, and I think you do!
So, today is surf and turf to eat, along with 10 Barrel Brewing raspberry sour finished with Dragons Milk.
Don’t know what gin the wife is having.
Oh, and I forgot to mention. My college GF was the daughter of a 7da pastor, so the whole family was vegetarian. One Thanksgiving I went out there and tried to eat the “turkey” loaf. Afterwords, the Mother slipped my a ten-spot and whispered “go. go to McD’s”
One set of grandparents converted to Seventh Day Adventism.
They were strictly vegetarian and except for certain holidays when they’d break the rules.
SDA always makes me think of Lindy Chamberlain.
It never ceased to amaze me how Meryl Streep could play her and then go on to join the witch hunt against Donald Trump.
A dingo took my Donald!
/getting tipsy here
Vegetarian and vegan food has come a LONG way just in the last 10 years.
The products and ingredients we can get from pretty much any grocery have been game-changers.
Ooh, sours! yummy, I’m going with Bell’s Two Hearted Ale, not an IPA,
Looks like Carlsberg here. It’s all I’ve got. I bought a case of the 16.9oz cans. Tall cans all day!
Tall Cans!
Yeungling makes a pils so I am having that. Wife is having Pinot Noir.
Busted open the big Gulden Draak bottle to split with my aunt (not the *really* big party one they sell).
After a Left Hand Milk Stout.
Very nice!
“Yeungling makes a pils”
I had a 12 of it a while back. Not bad.
I opened the bottle of cooking wine for wifey, but she still has yet to ask me to open a bottle of drinking wine. I drink alone, with nobody else.
More assholes being assholes
More COVID-19 violations were announced on Wednesday by the Attorney General’s Office.
They issued a $1,000 fine to White Mountain Tavern in Lincoln and a $2,000 fine to Loudon Country Village Store.
The AG’s office said White Mountain Tavern had at least two performers indoors, they were not maintaining social distancing and staff were not wearing face coverings.
Officials said the violations in Loudon centered on continued failure to wear masks.
They said neither business is associated with a COVID-19 outbreak but that does not matter.
In VA, you get the commies you voted for.
*the commies The People’s Republic of Fairfax and Loudon Counties voted for. FIFY
The rest of VA are now just the subjects of the capital city of the Republic of Panem on the Potomac.
That checks out, lumber, coal, etc. downstate.
VA?
Formerly known as the state or commonwealth of Virginia.
The article is about enforcement of the Clown Prince’s edicts in New Hampshire. Nothing about Virginia.
see my reply below…
You expect us to actually read the links? Are you new here? 😉
If I remember correctly, someone here emailed me… and then I sent an email to DEG telling him there is a new site. That’s back during the Exodus brought us out into the new land of Glipertopia. Leaderless of course. I could have that backwards, may be that DEG emailed me and he was already here…
Yes, I am not very smart.
I asked at TOS where everybody went, someone mention Glibertarians in an offhand, stealthy way, TOS doesn’t like us very much,
/Glibs, the last refuge of Libertarians……………….
These replies are going to look funny.
My “I’m not very smart” was in reply to OBJ Frankelson.
I remember exchanging e-mail with Hyperion around when the site started. One of us told the other about the site. It might have been me telling him, but I honestly cannot remember.
I got the link from Swiss shortly after TOS’ great awokening had driven most of the regulars off.
My first post here was Feb 12, 2017.
Oh wait… there’s a Loudon in NH? Lol, I thought you were talking about VA until I clicked the link.
Yes. It’s up in the Lakes Region. It’s known for this place.
they used to race NASCAR there, I didn’t know there was one in VA…..
Loudon County, home of commies from DC, along with all the other counties bordering DC. Home of NOVA, the commie caliphate and military industrial complex of the USSA.
Fuck that, I’ll stick with Old School racin’
And the worst traffic in the DC area, and that’s saying something.
OMFG, the traffic near the Pentagon. And maps is useless, the highway looks like a bunch of badly crisscrossed bundles of network cables.
Last time I was down there, I missed my exit like 3 times because of that, and the traffic was still rush hour like at 8PM.
The problem with Loudoun is the traffic on the weekends. Had a terrible experience getting to and from this vineyard. Excellent wine tastings & picnic stuff, BTW.
Isn’t it Loudoun with a second U in Virginia anyway?
Pedant!
Happy T’giving SP et al,
We’re having the joy of a granddaughter and husband coming, we hope to eat about 1-1:30 when Mrs F announces its ready. Like many families kids/g-kids are scattered about so we don’t see them often (enough).
The food is secondary, though there will be lots. Most important is having the family. Every time we say Goodbye my wife and I acknowledge that it may be the last time so important for us.
Hope the kiddos bring a cooler, we’re gonna need some help with the leftover groceries.
Enjoy every day 4×20, and say hi to the Missus for me,
Happy Thanksgiving, Fourscore. You’re my 3rd favorite old man! ❤️
Nobody ever knows how long they or people they love have. It’s important to always savor time with loved ones.
“As Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving, the world watches with dread and disbelief”
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1331907457816420362
For the rest of the world it’s probably just Thursday.
“As Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving, the world watches with dread and disbelief”
Bullshit. Most people could care less what Americans are doing today. Only a bunch of authoritarian leftists care, and the assault on Western culture continues with emphasis on destroying the family unit and their silly religious belief systems.
I saw one headline that went along the lines of: Americans are going back to the roots of Thanksgiving and spreading disease around the country.
No. Fuck off with that noise today. I’m already irritated that I don’t get to see my family, shit’s already getting cancelled out to March, and I have a feeling the lockdowns will be pushing that there will be no Christmas this year.
Oh, that’s rich. I know you’re busy, but citation please.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/25/americans-revive-spirit-first-thanksgiving-by-carrying-disease-new-areas/
Waiting for items to finish cooking.
I find it funny that the idea that Europeans knowingly and intentionally engaged in biological warfare against the indians (in an era predating germ-theory) is a lie so often repeated that everyone takes it as a given. There is precisely one historical record referencing smallpox blankets, a letter between a British officer and a subordinate, in which the idea is proffered. The subordinate wrote in his own diary that he thought it a diabolical idea and made no attempt to act on the suggestion. That’s it. Not one single other incident. The reality was that European and African disease ravaged the continent long before most tribes were even aware of the colonial powers existence as reflected in their oral traditions. All their times of great sickness were in the 1500-1600’s.
Yet this easily verifiable historical fact is never considered as it doesn’t jive with the narrative. So yup, our smallpox blanket holiday. Sure.
And the Europeans didn’t realize what they were doing. (By the same token, I read that the Vikings in Newfoundland offered the locals cow’s milk, not knowing that the locals wouldn’t be able to tolerate it.)
And didn’t the natives in America give Europeans syphilis?
The syphilis was obviously because the Europeans were raping their way across the continent.
The smallpox blanket myth is unkillable. When the Europeans first showed up on North American shores, Native Americans being ravaged by smallpox was unfortunately a foregone conclusion.
Oh no! Those cultured Europeans will look down on us. How will I ever face them again when I return to St. Tropez?
Actually, I doubt they even care.
Furthermore, my in-laws in Europe are sick of this crap too.
The rest of the world can go fuck themselves. They are mostly a bunch of collectivist chickenshits.
We are having a traditional family Thanksgiving.
If I get sick, I get sick. If I die, then I die but I am not going to let fear rule my life.
“Fear is the mind-killer.”
I keep telling my friends that, and they keep ignoring me.
I’m sure everyone has had the conversation where your statist friend says “Oh, nobody wants to take your (guns, freedom of speech/worship/assembly, due process, privacy, etc)” as they roll their eyes.
The Plandemic should put that line of arguement to bed forever. There is nothing they are not coming for. There is no liberty too benign, no choice too small, no pleasure too innocent that the authorities do not want to rip from your fingers and lord over you like a schoolyard bully with a cherished toy.
Fuck these people. If WaPO was a city I would be all for pillaging it, woodchippering the inhabitants, and sewing the ground with salt.
Sowing?
If I made a post that long and only have one egregious spelling error I consider it a win.
So stop watching.
Cunts.
Just don’t look
Just don’t look ?
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E06/368050
“The World” is doing no such thing, I promise you.
This is the same nonsense that gets re-packaged on the flip side here in Canada by all the nationalist shitheads who say “the world needs more Canada” (á la Bono), when if you travel even modest amounts you quickly discover that “the World,” by and large, never thinks about Canada at all, and certainly is not of the opinion that they need Canada.
Europeans have their own problems. Just like the rest of us.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Enswa0MXYAERbiy?format=jpg&name=small
Whenever we can make our work schedules line up. Today it’s around 6pm after everyone is off work and the toddlers on Grand parents have had their naps.
It’ll be rotisserie turkey with kale poppy seed cranberry salad and garlic knot rolls. Followed up with lots of chocolate treat, Costco apple pie and mixed drinks.
Despite my overnight pic of Spam™ Turkey, I have an akshual breast in the oven- its only me & Jugsy, and she wont eat dark meat.
Im working tonight, so I’m trying to time things for sit-down @ TV trays around 1/2 time for the Lions game. Then bed.
Work just served up boxed lunches for our holiday. I’ve never had a Cubano Sandwich before, but this is pretty damn good.
A good Cuban cannot be beat. We have a local shop here that is in an old converted gas station, and pretty much all they do are cuban sandwiches and strawberry shakes (I live in the “winter strawberry capital of the world” and the shakes are made with local strawberries). Every single time I’ve been there there has been a line, regardless of the time of day.
Great sandwiches. Also interesting to see each shop’s take on it.
++++ this
Fun fact: the cuban was invented in Tampa.
We did well when Castro tossed out all his educated population.
Dear future Pol Pots,
You dont need to execute the educated, we will pay for you to ship them to us.
‘merica
On a rwlated note, can we grant everyone in Hong Kong dual citizenship?
One good thing about Boris, if he’s following through with it.
That only works if the next future Pol Pot is from somewhere other than ‘merica
My second favorite sandwich.
Happy Turkey Day all!
I just made the wife happy… She has been desperate to replace our ugly 1959 front door. Finally did it. Then the kids got out the maul and we smashed the door to bits to burn in the chiminea.
The only problem? It’s 87° today.
But the kids had a blast smashing something.
A new Thanksgiving tradition?
Doors can get pricey, how about a firepit instead?
pic/s?
First some background. Growing up my mom had a great green tupperware bowl she used to make home made bread and caramel rolls. On a visit home I told her that that bowl had so many great memories that I really wanted it in the will. My bratty kid sister freaked out and said that she WANTED the bowl and she deserved it more.
I did want the bowl, but not so much I’d fight for it. But it was a great chain to yank any time I wanted to get my sister all revved up.
My mom felt bad about me not getting the bowl. Then she found an identical one at a rummage sale. She bought it and gave it to me. Sister got pissed that I got a green bowl now and she has to wait until our parents die until she gets hers. At that point, I told her that this bowl in no way precludes my claim to the original green bowl. I still get that one too. Cue kid sister fireworks.
I still give her shit about it.
This year, I bought two more of those green bowls online. I then made what I am calling 3 Bowl Salad, It is basically 3 Bean Salad, but I only put one type of bean in each bowl. I am going to surprise my sister (who is hosting) with this culinary treat. I’m sure I’ll be a complete jackass and talk forever about how any properly equipped kitchen needs at least 2 green bowls. My wife is almost blind from all the eye rolling she has done since I revealed my plans. My kids think it is a riot.
This is how you Minnesoda Nice (aka passive aggressive trolling)
3 Bowl Salad
CWAA,
Bravo! yank that chain!
Winning!
Nice, Holiness!
Large batch of Hollandaise done (two sticks of butter, 6 egg yolks!)
Waiting for my raspberries to thaw
I have some leftover Fireball from last night. Not sure if I want to drink, tho.
How much left over? I’ll have it if you don’t want it. I never would have glanced at it twice if a friend hadn’t served me some once.
A shot – skol!
This time last year, we were living in my van in a backyard, then it began to rain,
Now I get to hang with Sissy LaLa’s family, and leave Bella at Home, where she is safe and happy.
A Home………..
Plus I get to Crush them all at Rummy! Yarg!
Attempting to impeach the Clown Prince made Business Insider
Seven conservative lawmakers in New Hampshire have called for an investigation into whether the state’s GOP governor Chris Sununu can be impeached for ruling by executive order during the pandemic.
This news comes just days after the governor implemented a mask mandate requiring people to wear a face covering in public places, which led to an anti-mask demonstration outside his home in Newfields on Sunday.
According to a filing by the New Hampshire General Court, Andrew Prout, a Republican member of the state’s House of Representatives, was the prime sponsor of the request, titled “authorizing and directing the house judiciary committee to investigate whether cause exists for the impeachment of Governor Christopher T. Sununu.”
Yes, it is just a resolution authorizing the House Judiciary committee to investigate impeachment. The committee will have subpoena power from what I understand. If the resolution passes, and the committee says “Yep, impeach him”, then the House will have to vote on impeachment.
Interestingly, the state constitution is silent on how many Senators need to vote yes to remove someone from office. The Senate decides the thresshold required when they hold their trial. Last time the House impeached someone (a state Supreme Court justice something like 15 years ago), the Senate decided on a 2/3rds majority required for removal from office.
Since NH has no lieutenant governor, the Senate President becomes governor if the governor resigns, dies, or is removed from office.
The list of things I am thankful for? How much time have you got?
OMWC and SP: Just now catching up. I cannot tell you how pleased I am with the first paragraph in the morning links. This is coming from someone who was told 18 years ago that I would only live another 7 years and spend most of that in a wheel chair. I earnestly hope you live to be 100 years old and every day of it happy.
I split my own firewood this morning.
Every day above ground is a good day.
It’s good that you pulled through. It’s good that SP pulled through too.
Amen.
Amen again.
“I split my own firewood this morning.”
Good for you.
I miss those days. The first place I ever lived in on my own, I rented a house from a farmer who owned like 4000 acres, much of it wooded. He told me ‘If you need firewood, you can cut whatever you want from there, and pointed to a stand of woods uphill from my place’. So I did, cut down some trees, cut it up, hauled it down to my place, split it and stacked it to dry. The good old days, I miss that. We had electric but no gas, so wood was the best option.
Yes! Congrats OMWC and SP!
Thanks, Suthen.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer”.
A good song and a better album that was so overplayed in my youth that I was unable to listen to it and the album for literally a decade.
Here is an interesting video on how it was produced and the surprising amount of musicians on it.
https://youtu.be/n8h2f7Yne0s
I forgot Tony Levin played bass on it.
I have Goodwill store down the street from my work and from time to time I will venture over there on my lunch hour and browse thru the vinyl records. Most of it was junk but every now and then I would come across a nugget – one was So. Perfect album sleeve and the record looked like it had never been played. Cost me 50 cents. Great LP.
Nice!
The Dancing Chickens in the video forever ruined that song for me.
Nowadays I feel like that whole video was just a meme, too ahead of its time.
I am thankful that I am First.
And you, Glibertariat, are welcome for my Firsts.
We all know who is first in this thread and it ain’t you.
He tried that on me a few days ago and failed miserably, it’s the ADD I tell’s ya,
Well, he was the first to try it.
First doesn’t apply to Articles, only Links,
You need to be topical to the links or it doesn’t count, I scored because I mentioned a picture in the links, en Espanol, therefore a technical first, my Favorite kind,
Da rules is it has to be links. A leftover from TOS.
Neither of you knows what makes a First or a Firster.
I don’t usually care who’s first, but when I do…
Stay firsty, my friend.
The main meal is early in the day, with club sandwiches in the evenings.
The surprise of today is this at least a decade old bottle of “burnt honey wine” I finally opened up. I”m not going to call it sophisticated, refined, or even “good,” but damned if it isn’t wonderful with all the heavily seasoned goodies.
The gravy turned out really well.
Dinner at 3.
My contribution of Cole slaw is done. My wife made cranberry walnut coffe cake for my mom.
Family is all doing well and I expect 20+ people at my moms. Card tables with food and football.
We’ll probably eat at around 2:30. Just 3 of us at home this year.
Very thankful for what SP and TPTB do to keep this place going. This place is a refuge of sanity for me. Or we are the crazy ones?
“This place is a refuge of sanity for me. Or we are the crazy ones?”
Yes…
The Mail is delivering today? or is Amazon yanking My chain?
I don’t think Amazon will deliver today. I have open orders in and they’re all being delivered tomorrow. I had orders delivered yesterday, nothing today.
Strange to see mail trucks on Sundays, at any rate.
We’ve got 5pm dinner reservations.
We were supposed to go see some family friends for drinks and appetizers before that, but unfortunately my wife is currently reading “ZOMG TEH COVID IS SPIKING” stories and freaking out, so that’s probably getting canceled.
Boston Market had a line wrapped around the building and into their parking lot. It was significantly longer when we left.
We’ve already eaten the obligatory turkey. Dunno what’s for dinner.
ER Doctor Says Coronavirus Curve Is “Shooting Straight Up” in OC
SCIENCE
Wife got it early, she died of Co morbidities, Sister got it, on a respirator, she’s totally fine now, otherwise I know of no one that has gotten the Covid,
Should I worry?
No!, and Hell no!
I’m going to eat Turkey, Love you guys!
I had it, It was pretty sucky, just about coughed up my lungs and spleen. The wife got it too, she just had what amounted to a chest cold. I am still not going to cower in fear. I look at it the same way I looked at getting mortared in Iraq, if my number comes up, it comes up, being terrified all the time is not going to change it one way or another.
I think wife and I had it. We were never tested, but back in March we both had the weirdest colds. She coughed a lot, actually scared me and I suggested we go in, but she wouldn’t. I had a sore chest, but I didn’t cough too much, and she had the sore chest as well. We both were over it in less than a week.
One thing is, during the six months before that, I walked through a major hospital full of people wall to wall, 3 times a week, every week. So to say I might have been exposed is probably an understatement. No one was wearing masks back then. Shortly after we were all locked down and I have not been back to the office, so no noon walks through a hospital full of sick people.
I had a cold that lingered much longer than normal right around Christmas, but I never saw a doctor and don’t particularly think it was covid.
To be fair, you’re more or less immune now.
BE FRIGHTENED AND OBEY! OTHERWISE, YOU WANT GRANDMA TO DIE!!!!!!1~!!!!
Haha. Jokes on you, then, because my grandmothers are ALREADY dead!
I AM TALKING ABOUT METAPHORICAL GRANDMA!!!1!!!`!!
I was late reading this morning’s post but want to say how happy I am for both you and OMWC! It really warmed my heart to read that, I obviously appreciate all that you do for us so much but that’s merely a very minor secondary reason for why I feel so good that you are doing so much better. Life stops for all of us eventually but we just keep living it anyway and it’s still so beautiful! I’m not crying, you’re crying!
Thank you! Happy Thanksgiving.
Mid afternoon when we have a big group. Evening today by request of my people. My son wanted to spend the day fishing!
Smoked turkey turned out surprisingly moist and flavorful- even the white meat.
A great brussel sprouts – sautéed with bacon and a few other spices – new to me – will have to try more in the future.
Next time you do the Brussels sprouts, hit them with balsamic vinegar right before serving. Awesome!
Balsamic was one of the additions – don’t recall which one. Good recommendation.
Worcestershire is another spectacular addition, if’n you’re so inclined. Jamie Oliver’s got a Christmas recipe for shredded Brussels sprouts with Worcestershire, bacon and butter that’s very good.
Los Angeles: Underground parties continue to take place during pandemic
And then, there’s this past weekend’s underground party scene, something FOX 11 is seeing play out week after week. Masses of young people crowded into a house party like sardines drinking, dancing, not practicing social distancing, zero masks and zero concern.
#resistance
Good for them!
I kept telling you people that twerk parties would save the Republic, but you ignored me.
https://youtu.be/afam2nIae4o
“…TOS doesn’t like us very much,
/Glibs, the last refuge of Libertarians……………….”
I was looking around these here series of tubes for various public voices that reflect libertarian values. What I found is that most self professed ‘Libertarians’ are no such thing. They are plainly commies with one foot out of the closet. I also found that the people advocating the most Libertarian values, to a man, call themselves conservatives. Nowhere was that more obvious than here:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/06/22/19-black-americans-explain-why-theyre-conservative/
“I am a conservative because (insert laundry list of core Libertarian values) ”
It is rather striking.
Now, I am off to gorge myself on some very yummy food with family.
By the way, one of the things I am thankful for is this website, this community and all that I have learned from y’all.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Happy Thanksgiving, Suthen!
All the best to you and the family!
IMO most paleo-leaning conservatives are libertarian by inclination but either haven’t thought through their core principles enough and/or have cultural sacred-cows they can’t get past. Which is exactly the space where the non-masquerading wokertarians live too. The difference being the conservatives hate The Cathedral whereas the wokertarians seek it’s approval.
Yeah, guys like Ben Shapiro et al get the general principles but just refuse to apply them with any real consistency when their sacred cows are being gored.
He’s totes libertarian except he wants the cops to bash your fucking head in if you like herbs that make you laugh, and he want the government to kill off as many furriners as we have bombs to drop on them. And, he’d really be happy if he could just go back to being the ” high road taking loser” who gets to constantly bitch about the winning assed democrats. Yeah, he’s everything hateable about the red team with very little of the likeable parts.
“he wants the cops to bash your fucking head in if you like herbs that make you laugh”
At least him and Biden agree on something.
Trump should deschedule weed as his last act, right after pardoning Snowden and pulling completely out of Afghanistan.
One can always dream.
Since he couldn’t even get modest troop reductions without his “own” people lying to him about the numbers, getting a complete pullout from A-stan is probably impossible.
But yeah, I hope he uses his phone and pen mercilessly between now and noon on January 20th, 2021.
That’s like saying a ladyboy in Pattaya would be a girl except for the penis.
Fusionism: Not even once.
Ideologies exist on a non-incremental spectrum. I took care to use ‘self identified’ and my point is that people self identification is often inaccurate, some times out of misperception , sometimes out of mendacity. In the cases i cited they more closely resemble libertarians than many self identifying libertarians.
Gah
Typing on a mobile really sucks
My point wasn’t Fusionism. My point was “Leave me the fuck alone” is an inclination that spans a wider part of the political spectrum than some think even if it doesn’t lead us to all draw the same conclusions..
Someone said something about fear being the mind-killer. Here is a non-comprehensive list of that America has done when we were scared:
Ceded control of the fruits of our labor via the New Deal.
Ceded our protections against unreasonable search and seizure via the Patriot Act.
Ceded our right to free association and freedom of movement to the Commie Cough.
That was me, re-quoting from Frank Herbert’s “Dune.”
The entire Bene-Gesserit Litany Against Fear:
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.”
Just waking up after work but I really want to say how thankful I am for all of you in my life. Also, OMWC and SP, HUZZAH!
Thanks, l0b0t!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hey Neph (and anyone else inclined to Anglophilism), here is some good television for your girlfriend to watch while you make yummy foodstuffs. Porterhouse Blue
She’s been on a Zoom chat with London boardgamers.
The pork tenderloin wasn’t done at last test (~105 F), so it’s back in for another 10 minutes.
Great television. RIP Ian Richardson. Taken too soon.
Brunch at 10:30 (my responsibility); dinner at 5-ish, wife cooking.
My wife and I are both Holiday lunch people. It kills us to do late afternoon or dinner. We were eating by 12:30. It did mean having the turkey going at 8.
I’m thankful to have this place and you people. I’ve unplugged for a while here and there and I end up getting bombarded by the other sources and just getting even more stressed by how fucking crazy they are. When I came back, it was like finally exhaling. Just reading normal (LOL) people is very comforting. Thanks everyone!
Back atcha, Blackjack!
Hi-five!
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Well, turkey is on and kitchen cleaned up. Fridge another wonderful job of defrosting the turkey. 30F on one probe when it started.
BTW, if Ginsburg had not just died, the SC would have just ruled that the government can outlaw practicing religion, while not imposing similar restrictions on other activities. It’s like they read the founding documents and said, ” Yeah, there’s nothing in here about protecting religious practices. The government can ban religion without worry.” Fuck Roberts.
* not that banning any of this is OK in any case.
+1 loud dogma
I’d usually eat at moms at 1:00, then at the in laws around 5:00. This year moms not having company so it’s just the in laws at 3:00. I still have much to be thankful for, especially mom in law being back home after her battle with Covid.
Rick Savage, owner of Sunday River Brewing, returns to Tucker Carlson.
The bosslady has cooked porchetta-style turkey breast, with roasted acorn squash, broccolini with garlic, and focaccia.
My contribution is a bottle of Corton-Charlemagne, because what “special occasion” am I saving it for? I had a heart attack last month, and I’m thankful for every remaining day I have on the correct side of the grass.
Dinner will be around 1530 local time.
Corty-Charley? Hmph, my invitation seems to have gotten lost in the mail.
Yeah, but it’s a Chardonnay.
I’ve got an Argentine Torrontés in the fridge; I have no idea if it’s going to be any good. But I don’t make enough to afford much more than the $10/bottle wines. 🙁
South American wines are a fantastic value for their price. Torrontes is one of my favorites.
If you’d like to try a nice French white in the $10-15 range, look for Costières de Nîmes. It’s usually a Roussanne-based blend. White wines account for only about 5% of the region’s production, but they’re worth seeking out.
The reds from that area are no slouch, either. Similar to Châteauneuf-du-Pape at a quarter the price.
I’ve got a Muscadet in the wine rack, and another dry French in the fridge.
We used to describe Carmenere as “just like Merlot if Merlot were interesting.”
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Been happily smoking away since 9AM. My turkey is smoked prematurely. I had to choke it out.
That’ll make you go blind.
*adjusts glasses*
The two chickens are in with the turkey. They got choked too.
Just opened the vents; resuming smokage.
Thus far:
20 sausages (10 brats, 5 chorizo, 5 mild italian
2 chicken breast filets
5 mutant size chicken breasts
1 pork tenderloin
A light day for me. I usually smoke 0800-2000 when needed.
Can I do it just until I need glasses?
Happy Thanksgiving, TARDis!
/looks at piles of food leftover
I made too much food, as is tradition.
/wanders off to put more food on the plate
My oenophile wife has dug deep into our wine cellar for today. Hoping OMWC and SP might appreciate (major congrats on the health situation BTW, I woke too late to chime in on the AM thread).
For the turkey: Chateau Cos d’Estournel 1986
Dessert: Delaforce Curious and Ancient Tawny Porto aged 20 years at bottling, bottled in 2002.
Just thinking of that port is making my mouth water. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
The ’86 Cos is a terrific bottle, well done!
Our Hermitage for the night is a ’98 Bernard Faurie Greffieux-Meal, self-imported (Kermit didn’t have him in the book at that time). ’98 Ogier Cote-Rotie as well.
Dammit, we drank the Port with dbleagle a few nights ago, so nothing vinous for dessert, alas.
My parents’ Thanksgiving was always mid day, about 2 or 3 pm, with plenty of grazing available on the sideboard (buffet table) to tide people over.
Then after all us kids got married, it became more of a challenge to juggle meals among the various in-laws meals.
It’s still a big gathering for all those relatives in Oklahoma, which is why I don’t fly to OK home for Thanksgiving anymore—too much pressure on the womenfolk to pull off fantastic feasts while the men watch football.
Then while we are barely done eating , the great kitchen cleanup and leftovers Tetris in the fridge. Still no male help, until I brought the current Mr Splosives into the mix. He helps in the kitchen and keeps the ladies laughing with his charming story telling. He flips on the “standup comic” switch on and off at will.
Today it’s just the two of us, and leg of lamb will be ready in about an hour.
Still no male help
My MIL is washing dishes as fast as we can dirty them. Aspie son is doing all the drying and putting away. He also set the table and takes out all the trash. Final dishes are ready to go in the oven.
I don’t watch football, so I am more useful.
There’s never enough room for all the distaff relatives to work, there’s no way one of the men would be permitted in.
I’m at my parents house with 35 people. Fuck off covidians.
You
da man!da peeps!!! ?Happy thanksgiving all my fellow glibs! Using a vacation day up here to get in touch with my American roots while locked down Toronto (the lock down will work this time, promise!).
No turkey… but I’ve got chicken, ribs, and baked beans on the go here. Good enough for me.
Thank you all for keeping my hope alive in humanity during the last decade between TOS and now most of all glibs. I pray for good things for you sons a bitches. Cheers!
Happy Thanksgiving to you sir. It is quite nice to see you around. I hope all is well in your world.
Trying to get more involved again. I never stopped lurking but haven’t been contributing as much as I should. It’s funny because I feel like I’ve been hanging out with all of you the whole time even though I’ve been silent.
All is as good as can be under the circumstances with me though. Got engaged just prior to covid and had a small secret wedding in early October. Mrs. Fission (who has also become a Glibs lurker) has been a god send keeping me sane the last 9 months.
I hope things have been good with you my friend.
Technically, she’s been a goddess. :-p
Congratulations on your marriage! I hope you’ll be as happy as OMWC and I (still) are.
I hope to, SP. OMWC’s story in the earlier post was very touching. Happy for you and him.
Here’s to another 25!
Mazel Tov, to you and lovely wife!
Parents are locked up tight in Assisted Living. Sister is on the other side of the country. So I’m at home working.
Gonna go for a run at Kierland in about half an hour and have salmon for dinner. So yeah, Thursday.
You’re welcome to join us for dinner. OMWC’s family was weird, so we won’t be dining until 1930 or so. Drop me an email if you want directions.
Will skip tonight (busy getting things done), but I will send an e-mail from a different address (the one you have is kind of a spam burner).
We just finished up. Turkey was cooked well but seasoned terribly. I misconverted between kosher and fine salt, making it too salty by probably 30%. I also went too heavy on the lemon and orange zest. I’m not sure I’d even do any citrus next year.
Green bean casserole was great. Homemade cream of mushroom is a pain, but so worth it!
Gravy was a touch too thin, but it was the last thing still going, so it got rushed off. Another 2 or 3 minutes would’ve nailed it.
Pumpkin pie smells good, but we’ll cut it a little bit later. I have enough cream left to make up some whipped cream. ?
Biggest thing I want to fix for next year (besides ditching the spice profile from this year’s turkey recipe) is getting a spice grinder for the fresh herbs. My knife skills aren’t good enough to avoid noticing the texture of the herbs.
We don’t have a fancy wine cellar or nuthin, but we do have franzia and Fresca. ?
Buy every flavor of Franzia and line up the boxes on you kitchen counter.
Drink a glass of each one and you have completed the tour de franzia.
We never got that fancy in college. We’d take the bags out and play “slap bag”, though.
I never brined a turkey. Maybe you could try my covered roasting pan method. Works every time.
The dry brining worked beautifully. Turkey was quite moist and tender. I just used a ton more salt than necessary and then used salted butter on top of that. Rookie mistake.
A mini cusinart works well for fresh herbs with the blade forward, and spices with the blade backward.
Go with a cheap blade coffee grinder for the spices. Just keep it labeled, and don’t try to make coffee with it.
Its only 3 o’clock here and I’m already a 12 pack of Busch light in. My brothers and I are going to set a brush pile on fire when it gets dark. This is going to be a fun night.
That’s a beautiful way to spend a Thanksgiving.
Its kind of a family tradition. My parents live in the house my grandparents lived in before they died.
We have been going to this farm on holidays since I was a toddler.
Those type of traditions are things that really make life really good.
Really
Truth man
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Happy Thanksgiving, Count!
I’m thankful for Glibertarians.
Me too 🙂
#metoo
^^^So much this!
I’m out. I’m heading to Thanksgiving dinner with some folks I know. There should be about twenty people there.
I think that is still legal. The Clown Prince has done many stupid things, but as far as I know, he has not joined in the “restricting the number of people you can have over” stupidity. The host and hostess would probably still have the dinner regardless.
My contribution is some beer and wine.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
You too!
Happy Thanksgiving!
“‘U.S. is going to see darkest days in modern medical history’: Doctor’s dire warning as 95% of country sees ‘uncontrollable COVID-19 spread’ and 50 MILLION travel for Thanksgiving – with 17% spike hitting California in just 24hrs”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8990523/US-coronavirus-Doctors-warn-darkest-days-Thanksgiving.html
Oh, fuck off already.
It’s your fault for giving them Demi Rose clicks. It’s only encouraged them.
They need to mind their own beeswax
Well, they got that part right.
blah blah blah we have heard this how many times now?
* doing math with my fingers…lessee 17 %, 24 hrs, 95%, and, 50 million, wait 50 MILLION?!?!? Ok, 50 mil, and 99.9% recovery rate. Yup, fuck off assholes.
My nephew’s roommate came down with Covid-like symptoms, so we’re down to 7. At least we’ll be compliant with Lord Gavin’s orders, though I was looking forward to disobeying.
My 90 year old grandmother came out of Thanksgiving retirement in no small part to defy King Andy’s edicts; she is having 20 people at dinner this year. Make’s my heart swell and speaks to the point Suthenboy made upthread.
Go, grandma!
As there may not be an afternoon link, I’ll drop the link here for a Zoom/Happy Hour/overcarbed discussion. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
There will not be an afternoon links. There will be an evening links of frivolity.
Thanks for hosting Zoom Chat! And Happy Thanksgiving!
Not a problem, glad that you an OMWC have a big reason to be thankful.
So much left over food. The girlfriend and I haven’t even touched the desserts yet.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
This last pic is smoking hot.
It’s hard not to like the guy.
https://archive.li/auOKY
Lions lost on Thanksgiving so that tradition has survived 2020.
Weird, I haven’t watched any football today.
Go Team.
Team beat the Cowboys.
AP story, but unsurprisingly isn’t on the AP website
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2020/11/american-kids-now-learn-truth-about-pilgrims-early-thanksgiving.html
Yes, finally learning “the truth”. Can we do commies and leftism next, AP?
Am I crazy or have I been reading some version of this article for at least the last couple dozen Thanksgivings? I mean, it’s not like telling kids to wallow in the sins of their ancestors is some recent invention.
“their ancestors”. Lol.
How many Americans trace their ancestry to immigration to the US before 1850? How many have ancestors that arrived after 1890?
More like “sins of people you neither know nor are related to nor have any direct genetic links to, but who may have a similar tie to European ancestry.”
The anti-racist, pro-diversity left has the most racist ideology in history. Change my mind.
Yeah, I debated being more specific there. It’s stupid enough without it.
Yeah. The only possible links I have going back before 1895 one great-grandmother who supposedly had an ancestor who came over on the Mayflower and an orphaned great-grandfather who was at least half Indian (feather).
The way I see it the Europeans showed up, saw how the locals in the Americas were waring and enslaving on each other, and said “Let me show y’all how that’s done”.
How many Americans trace their ancestry to immigration to the US before 1850? How many have ancestors that arrived after 1890?
Me, me.
This is why it’s such a damned nonstarter. I’m a mutt. I’m 1/4 Italian immigrant from the 1920s heritage, 1/4 Jewish immigrant from the 1930s heritage, and 1/2 British colonialist frontiersfolk heritage, including some of the people who settled Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. It’s highly likely that the frontiersfolk half includes both slave owner and abolitionist.
Unless we reinstitute the one drop rule in reverse, it’s gonna be impossible to figure out what I have to atone for.
I think my most recent immigrant ancestor came in 1840’s. Some of my ancestors were indeed slave owners. The people telling my I should wallow in shame over it can fuck off.
“impossible to figure out what I have to atone for.”
Nah. All of it.
Both of Dad’s parents came from Germany in the interwar period. Mom’s dad could trace ancestry back to New Netherlands; I’m not certain when the people on my maternal grandmother’s side came over.
*raises hand
First documented ancestor in the US got married in Jamestown in 1625. Both sides of my family served in the Civil War (on the not-politically-acceptable side). Last of my family arrived in the 1880s, escaping from Bismark’s Germany.
One note: thanks to SP and OMWC.
Thanks also to OMWC for sharing some personal stuff earlier and I’m glad SP is doing well.
Hopefully we’re all worthy.
Thanks!
I’m not even worthy, so….
Thanks for the site SP.
I’m thinking about getting one of these for the guy at work with his cube wall full of Trump cartoons (not pro Trump ones) and fever Russian dreams.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/B07X2D81Z6/
Brisket is in the smoker, BBQ sauce simmering and liver is pickling. I napped too long and may break my Thanksgiving feast into a two day ordeal because I am too lazy to cook it all today.
“lazy”
You do what you want!! It’s still a mostly free country.
I’VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR LIES
Ha!
Reminds me of an office pot luck Thanksgiving a couple of decades back. I was very newly single and therefore had a very interrupted sleep pattern. I decided to make candied yams.
I got home from work late, so I put them in the oven kinda late around 10pm, intending to reheat in the morning. Well……
I fell asleep.
So they baked for about 5 hours before I woke up.
They were kinda dark and kinda small.
But quite delicious, actually.
This is one of the best briskets I have done I might add. I might be in a beef coma later. And pro-tip for you smoker finished baked bean makers out there. Add candied Jalapenos and leftover chili to them prior to putting them in the smoker. I am in smoker beans and brisket heaven.
I can smell your room from here.
liver is pickling
I visited mom for lunch yesterday. She’d asked me what I wanted, and I told her “anything but liver.” She heard liver and ran with it. So I tucked into the delicious meal she’d prepared and forked what looked like skewered teriyaki chicken onto my plate and soon found out it’s chicken liver. And it’s just as ghastly as I remembered.
Hannibal Lecter had bad taste. Blecht. Liver.
The liver I was referring to is mine. I cracked a
beerWhite Claw at 6 am. Yes, I like the sorority girl juice.* spit take *
I’m drinking rum mixed with sugar free punch mix, so I’m not one to cast aspersions. My liver’s as pickled as the eggs in Moe’s designated driver jar.
The day after Thanksgiving is time to harvest mistletoe.
1) find old oak tree with mistletoe (a parasitic plant) growing on it. Easy to spot once the oak leaves have fallen.
2) Aim shotgun at mistletoe and fire.
3) Gather prettiest mistletoe bunches from ground for use in Christmas season decor.
My method is way safer than climbing a tree on a ladder to gather the mistletoe bunches. “But GUNZZ!! It can’t be safer than ladders!”
To which the obvious rejoinder is to advise the worry-wart to nut up and aim.
“To which the obvious rejoinder is to advise the worry-wart to nut up and aim.”
Puts me in mind of a fishing story starring one of the Ledbetter boys….
https://youtu.be/AYrYvNb5cl0
4) Use it to scam kisses from the busty neighbor you’ve had your eye on.
Yup! That’s the general idea.
SP and OMWC, congratulations on the wonderful news. I’m glad to hear it!
We just wrapped up Thanksgiving. Just the 6 of us since everyone else cancelled yesterday due to the potential Covid exposure (and hysteria). My father is pissed but got outvoted. Turkey came out perfect smoked on the grill with a little hickory. Everything else came out great too, including the shepherd’s pie hand pies. We ended up with 9 dishes and 2 Costco pies for just the wife and me (since the kids pretty much just ate the mac and cheese).
My 5 year old daughter helped me cook the whole meal which was really nice. She made a bechamel for the green bean casserole and then another for the mac and cheese base. She was really proud of herself and we were too. It’s good for me to remember to step back from work and this insane world and cherish doing things like this with them. They’re going to grow up too fast.
My 8 year old and I separated eggs and whipped up the meringue for the pie together.
My 13 year old complained that he was bored, and since we turned off video games he spent the afternoon trying to instigate trouble.
So, yeah. They grow up too quickly. Enjoy it while you can.
Final count of food made:
2 lb pork tenderloin stuffed with diced apples, wrapped in prosciutto, and then wrapped in puff pastry
5 halves of twice baked potatoes (2 chorizo and cheese, the other 3 bacon and cheese)
Bacon rotini and cheese
Stovetop stuffing (the girlfriend’s not a fan of stuffing, and I wasn’t going through all the work just for me)
Frozen rolls (for two people, I wasn’t going to be going through the work to do yeast rolls)
Steamed broccoli (for some color)
Mini apple pies
Mini Christmas Ale custard pies
My fridge is filled with leftovers.
2 lb pork tenderloin stuffed with diced apples, wrapped in prosciutto, and then wrapped in puff pastry
Dood, that sounds good. Will do sans the apples and replace with maybe mushrooms, spinach and cream cheese.
The original recipe. Not a fan of mushrooms, and the stores were out of dried apples (of all the things for there to be a shortage of!). Apples and pork are a traditional pairing. The one problem I’ve had consistently is the bottom is always soggy (even being raised up on a rack in the baking dish in the oven).
Just had one of the mini custard pies. I will be making this custard again next year (and maybe for Christmas this year). Pretty simple recipe too, 12 oz. beer, 3 tablespoons corn starch, ~1/2 cup of sugar, pinch of salt. Cook in a double boiler (or in a bowl above a pot of boiling water) for ~15 minutes until it thickens. Chill for at least 4 hours before serving.
Apples and pork are a traditional pairing.
I am well aware of that. Do you take me as someone who clings to tradition? I smoked brisket for thanksgiving for petes sake. I have made a rolled flank steak thing with spinach, mushrooms cream cheese, and other stuff. I would have to dig out the recipe. It is out of an out of print FL foods cookbook from back in the day.
I would say that I respect tradition, not cling to it.
/hides his copy of the Flavor Bible.
Okay, I’m officially an old fart.
When the announcement came out about who would headline the Super Bowl halftime show, for the first time in my life, I said “Who?”
Just caught the last ninety seconds or so of the Dallas-WTF game’s halftime musical extravaganza, looked up who was autotuning their way through the performance, and said “Who?”
I mean, even if I don’t watch the videos or buy the albums, the names of “big time” pop music performers used to be vaguely familiar to me.
/tucks onion in belt, yells at kids to get off his lawn
The only thing I know about that guy is he was all over the news this week bitching about being “snubbed” for some award he “deserved”. Yeah, OK.
#metoo – with the sound off, natch.
I chuckled at the masked-up cheerleaders.
I just know the name because he was involved in an episode of American Dad. I’ve realized that I’m old a while back when I was realizing the newest band I listened to was over a decade old.
I’m no old fart and I have no idea whom that is, My guess is it’s part of the bubble effect, now-a-days if you like genre X you can pretty much customize your exposure to only that style of music. Seems like thirty years ago even if you weren’t a fan of a type of music you knew who the big names were, there were on Carson, guests on sitcoms, featured in People magazine. I don’t know if its better or worse, probably neither, there are more options but its easier to get stuck in an echo chamber, and in the long run pop culture is meaningless.
Just finished dinner, after cooking most the day … for two people. Turkey seasoned with dry rub, sage and Old Bay; stuffing with those seasonings and bacon, onion, celery and garlic; cranberries with cinnamon, allspice, ginger, brown sugar, and a finely diced orange including the peel; mashed potatoes with sour cream instead of milk, and dry rub seasoning; giblet gravy with most of the seasonings above; and biscuits.
Mrs. Prolefeed made sweet potato casserole with brown sugar and marshmallows.
Tons of leftovers.
Next up: Old Fashioned with Peerless bourbon.
We ate at 3:00 Californiezuela time. I’m like a GA Biden vote box, obviously overstuffed.
I fell for the snipe hunt thing as a kid, so I’m not falling for this “arugula” ruse. That’s the sound of a model T horn.
Yes, and Dodge Charger’s horns all play Dixie. Low rider Chebbies, though, all play La Cucaracha.
All my friends…
It’s Black Friday. The day when Kwanza starts. Turn your clocks back 15 minutes.
The arch bishop’s gonna sanctify me!
Sanctify yourself
We had a wonderful meal, all the fixins, and 15 lbs of potatoes, really? yes, between 6 of us we ate most of them, all the Turkey, and passed out during pie, a nice afternoon indeed,
The NFL East is hilarious.
I’m full as a tick and I love you all. Salt boiled baby red and baby buttergold spuds, slightly crushed and seared in butter, plated and toped with a wonderful beef bourguignon from the new cast iron Dutch oven. I’m also having a Marie Calender’s turkey pot pie to get my New World fowl fix. Packing 3 different bowls with 2 sativa and 1 indica strain, sipping a yummy iced tea with a Bourbon drink in the freezer getting right for Zoom Happy Hour. I hope I can stay awake.
Wake n Bake vicariously.
Just enjoyed a Grand Marnier Sidecar.
I have some leftover beef bourguignon that might be dinner soon. Maybe I can throw some pieces of turkey slices into it to be festive.
*deli turkey, that is
+1 Auntie Mame
I worked at a place that had this big fancy bottle of 150th anniversary Grand Marnier. That stuff was good.
Mmm… My first job (14 year old dish monkey) was at place that featured a Soufflé Grand Marnier on the dessert menu. It was very, very good.
Grand Marnier is what us sophisticated drunks finish a meal with when we light a cigarette. What’s her face number two introduced me to that tradition. I am far less sophisticated now since she threw me out over 20 years ago. I have regressed to bottom shelf tequila, plastic lime bulbs and whatever soda water is on sale.
Grand Marnier was the bartenders handshake back in the day as well. I understand that Fernet-Branca has taken that role now.
In my single days long ago I was once able to convince a young lass in a bar that the Grand Marnier was the name of a large canyon in Jamaica.
I had stuck it on a bottom shelf because I didn’t like anything I had tried to make with it. Pulled it out tonight looking for something different and the sidecar came out nice.
I got guilted into joining a Zoom meeting for my cousins (there was supposed to be a meeting this summer), we’re at 17 participants most of which have between 2 and 5 people in the screen.
I’ve shifted over to maple old fashioneds.
Just finished dinner. There were 12 of us. May God have mercy on our souls.
How are you even still alive?
Incubation period isn’t up.
Like several commenters above, I’m thankful every day for being not just top side, but in good health. I was told a while back that the type of cancer I had just discovered had an average 1 in 4 chance of survival five years out – but that the lump I had was way bigger than average. So, terrible odds.
That was in the early Oughts.
That cancer was an impetus to get out of a dysfunctional marriage and ship my car to the Mainland, jettison any of my possessions that wouldn’t fit in a couple of suitcases, and drive around the U.S. looking for where to start a new life.
Remarried, and happily so, to a lovely person … if we mostly avoid talking politics.
So, yes, I am really thankful for what I now have.
Life is a gift. No one should forget.
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NSFW.
And you survived the Trump years, which, let’s be honest, were worse than Nazism and the fall of the Soviet Union combined.
?
Congratulations , man. Here’s to those later marriages that make us go “WTF was I thinking when i married that other person first?”
Cheers.
*ding ding ding*
Yep. Ex and I get along fine now. Even during the divorce we never got nasty. I saw her at son’s house recently and it was good to see her again. We had a very pleasant conversation. We make good friends…spouses, not so much.
“jettison any of my possessions ” sometimes it’s the best thing you can do….
Yusef my man. Been through some hard times. 4 you.
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NSFW.
That’s your answer to everything.
Do you have any redheads in the b-cup range? And also clothed? And maybe she listens to Pink Floyd, but, you know, kinda ironically, because they’re so massively oversold as a band? And she’s not to hot on the b-sides, because that kind of obsessive is always intimidating.
I reluctantly gave away or sold two “collections” that were weighing me down.
I’m glad I did now. No looking back.
These days, kids don’t really want to inherit their parents’s stuff ( old chins, silverware, wall hangings, etc.) anyway, so I’m not sweating it. We use the good silver when I please; we ain’t saving it for when the Queen visits.
old chins
That Dahmer family inheritance just isn’t what it used to be.
I think that divorce plays a lot into it, at least for us. I can think of a few things (furniture, mostly) that I’d like to inherit from my grandparents, but nothing comes to mind that I’d like to inherit from my parents. All of that got parted out during the divorce. Same for my wife’s family. Grandma’s dining room table has wife’s name under it somewhere, but that’s about it.
I think you’re probably right about the divorce angle. My parents weren’t divorced, so I expected not to be either so I did the married thing of having China, silver, trinkets, etc. plus I had an impressive rock collection too.
When I divorced, I walked away from everything material that I didn’t bring to the marriage.
But I only sold the rock collection THIS YEAR. Holy cow, I had literally moved rocks across the country. Weighing me down. Now a young (preteens) brother and sister here in San Diego are enjoying them together as they pursue geology. Good for them.
Probably my jewelry is worth mentioning on that last page of my Will where I bequeath particular material items to specific people. Maybe some other stuff.
The rest my heirs can sell off personally or hire some estate handler.
My legacy will be left in other ways.
Wifey picked up some fine china dishes overseas. Just started using them everyday rather than holding them for “special” occasions and they really are nice in the utilitarian sense.
All done, except for the cleanup. Turkey smoke cooked on the Weber with cherry and pecan wood. Came out just about perfect even with being slightly frozen and cooking unbalanced left to right breasts. Sweet potatoes with marshmallows, box stuffing, homemade cranberries, buttermilk biscuits with a tad too much flour when folding and cutting, and homemade gravy with the grill drippings (made with milk per Suthen’s excellent suggestion).
Didn’t even have to get dressed up and drive today, and domestic status is peaceful. Sister is setting up a zoom call later for obligations. Still don’t have to dress up.