Hee!
We don't add that fancy red pepper stuff into our succotash. It's all lima beans and corn, baby. Of course, by the second day of leftovers, it's becoming sort of a uniform grey.
What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!
'Just Rewards (2)'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Beverly - Nov 14, 2006 6:10:49 am PST #9954 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
tommyrot - Nov 14, 2006 6:10:54 am PST #9955 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So, um... I don't think we've consensed on a new Natter thread title yet....
Nutty - Nov 14, 2006 6:12:07 am PST #9956 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
a cranberry-ginger-pear compote
I made a cranberry-orange-ginger sauce this weekend, and it was awesome and easy. (I don't know what a compote is, but I think it must be French for "mixed stuff.") I was really surprised at how easy it was, and it makes the perfect thing to spoon over brown rice for breakfast.
nothing yellow&green
Nothing that is both colors, or nothing that is either? Because, ruling out all green means precious few spices and no vegetables, right? Which sounds like flea's SIL's household.
Whereas, "nothing that mixes yellow and green together" might be -- recent decorating trauma? Some crackpot spiritual issue? A family member who has one of those compulsions about not-mixy things on a plate?
SuziQ - Nov 14, 2006 6:16:07 am PST #9957 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Oh Nutty - it is just baseball rivalry. She is a Giants fan, I am not. I think I'll end up handing her a small baggie of bell peppers along with our "real dish".
Dana - Nov 14, 2006 6:16:15 am PST #9958 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Okay, I got 83.3% on the tone-deaf test. I'm tempted to try it again, but that could lead to a day of me sitting hear, head right up against the speaker and me humming.
Cass - Nov 14, 2006 6:18:16 am PST #9959 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
You're the one who always brings the pickled beets even though only one person within a hundred miles likes them, right? Ditto the sweet potato dish.Rutabaga.
Jesse - Nov 14, 2006 6:20:18 am PST #9960 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You're the one who always brings the pickled beets even though only one person within a hundred miles likes them, right? Ditto the sweet potato dish.
Ooh, I wish we had pickled beets at Thanksgiving!
I am now the person carrying on the family liking of this thing we call Harlequin vegetable, which I think is mashed carrots and parsnips? For a while, my grandmother was the only person who was really into it, but now I'm all about it, too.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 14, 2006 6:22:42 am PST #9961 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
We may also purchase and bring a chocolate pecan bread pudding from our local bakery because it is Teh Awesome.
Is that from A&J King, Nora? Hmmmmm. Mayhaps I'll have a contribution other than making the gravy this year.
Trudy Booth - Nov 14, 2006 6:26:27 am PST #9962 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Rutabaga.
My Grandmother always made rutabega and nobody liked it.
But the year after she died we were splitting up who makes what and my family wound up with rutabega -- because nobody could stand to skip it.
We went to the grocery store and had to hunt for it -- none of us had ever even seen it in non-mashed form before. It's a giant turnip covered in wax... m'kay. Then we had to figure out how to cook it. How do you peel an giant turnip covered in wax? I think we hacked it in half and cored it out pumpkinly. Two of us nearly lost fingers. Then we boiled it and mashed it up with butter, etc. and took it to dinner.
Even though nobody liked mashed rutabega everybody took some as they always had. And they LOVED it. It was really good. So we told the saga of discovering what they looked like, figuring out how to peel it, nearly loosing fingers (complete with eight by ten photographs with circles and arrows an a paragraph on the back of each)... and my one aunt started LAUGHING. "Mom always used frozen, every year I helped pull apart the orange chunks we took out of that bag."
Nora Deirdre - Nov 14, 2006 6:28:22 am PST #9963 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
(And you still get stuffing, you just cook it under the butterflied turkey, which sits on a broiler pan or wire rack set over the pan with the stuffing in it. So the drippings drip down onto the stuffing, and flavor it just like it was inside the bird! And it cooks in 2 hours!)
Yes, we did this too. YUM.
Is that from A&J King, Nora? Hmmmmm. Mayhaps I'll have a contribution other than making the gravy this year.
Yes- their thanksgiving treats on offer are:
Chocolate Pecan Bread Pudding (Serves 6-8)
Cranberry Corn Cake (Serves 6-8)
Large Apple Tart (Serves 6-8)
Pumpkin Cornmeal Hearth Bread
Oatmeal Cinnamon Raisin Rolls
We may make the stuffing out of the pumpkin cornmeal bread. Or not. Haven't decided yet. I think you need to preorder this stuff, btw... by this Thursday, and the pickup is Wednesday.