There are pictures of me wearing the matching scarf, but I was very young.

Turducken for Passover? No reason not to have it, I guess. And yet, it doesn't seem right. Possibly delicious, but not right.

I just filled out a survey for my former physics dept, including some mild criticism. It's weird to think about. I've not gone back to any of the reunions and I probably will continue not to. It was an overall good experience, and I remember the dept with pride. They did me good up until the end, but I'm not sure who is culpable there. Partly me and my intense privacy and unwillingness to ask for help, part them and a lack of a formal exit strategy. But I'm done with that.

But I signed my name anyway.

Kosher Turducken: [link]

I just googled that up myself. Way too much money for a novelty meal, but having a source for kosher duck could come in handy.

Perhaps I should reveal at this point that I have a goose I need to cook that I bought for no reason whatsoever so I should maybe not be trusted with the mail-order poultry.

I'm vaguely freaked by the K-for-P Turduckens, but even more so by the fact that they're organic and free range. It's like wanting the maximum of purity in the most insanely unnatural form imaginable.

amych, HA! so true.

And, damn, so expensive!

It's from the place in Boston where we usually get a lot of our Passover stuff anyway. (Our Passover meal is usually mostly prepared stuff, with one or two home-made dishes. My aunt hasn't had the energy for cooking a full Passover meal the past bunch of years, and they keep kosher so we can't bring stuff that we cooked at home, either, and usually the timing doesn't work out right for other family members to cook stuff in her kitchen, although we have done that a few times.)

Well, kosher meat is more expensive than regular to begin with, then once you add in the organic and free range (there have been some major scandals with the main kosher meat-processing place lately -- all kinds of stuff, ranging from not adhering to kosher standards to not adhering to federal safety standards to a whole ton of allegations of financial improprieties to a bunch of problems with hiring illegal immigrants -- so that just adds to all the usual reasons why people would be looking for organic and free-range lately), and then the amount of processing to clean the birds and take out the bones and stuff them and everything, I can see the price getting up there pretty quickly.

The thing that keeps annoying me about kosher caterers is the total lack of vegetables. It seems like they'd be easy. Asparagus or green beans with almonds. Steamed spinach with garlic and raisins. Grilled zucchini and eggplant. But at both of the places were normally order from, the ONLY cooked green vegetable on the Passover menu is spinach souffle. They also have a "roasted vegetable" platter, which I would bet anything is potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, and maybe acorn squash. Good, but all starchy.

Oh dear lord, I have been hit with the realization that I could order a kosher, free-range, organic turducken and deep fry it in peanut oil. So tempting. Not so much for the meal as to have done that.