OK, I've now made four dishes: pumpkin pie, green bean mushroom casserole, butternut squash and chestnut casserole, and stuffing. Next up is mashed potatoes, and then my part of this is done.
Dawn: I feel safe with you. Spike: Take that back!
'First Date'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - Nov 26, 2009 8:26:05 am PST #1749 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Jessica - Nov 26, 2009 8:47:16 am PST #1750 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
ZOMGWTFTHANKSGIVING
flops onto thread couch
There was no way to get out of NYC before yesterday this year, so ALL of my cooking was done today. Woke up at 7:30 this morning and this is the first break I've had except for a quick lunch while the pumpkin was in the oven.
So far:
- flan, chilling in fridge
- fondue-stuffed pumpkin, cooling on counter
- jalapeno creamed spinach, ditt
- mushroom tart, ditto
- stuffing, in fridge underneath turkey
- turkey, spatchcocked, butter & sage rubbed under skin, in fridge on top of stuffing
- pecans, spiced
- cranberries, sauced
Still to go:
- green beans
- salad
- spicy pumpkin seeds for flan topping
- NAP
dies of exhaustion
amych - Nov 26, 2009 8:48:59 am PST #1751 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Bread is done, second cornbread is done, gingerbread is done. Bird and dressing and potatoes are ready for the oven. Carrots and beans are last-minute-ish preparations. House is in decent shape.
Dessert dilemma: second dessert (apple (with possible cranberry) pie or cobbler or crumble) vs. use the gingerbread as a base with apple (with possible cranberry) sauce/compotey business. The difference is basically presentation - something composed vs. serving the same basic fruit stuff in a separate pan, so not much more difficulty in prep either way.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 26, 2009 8:50:06 am PST #1752 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Hope all you madly-cooking-and-baking people have fun this afternoon!
Jessica - Nov 26, 2009 8:52:47 am PST #1753 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Amych, I vote cobbler because it will created one fewer dish to wash.
Calli - Nov 26, 2009 8:57:03 am PST #1754 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I've had my turkey and sides, and I've shared the meat with both my cat and Amyth's dog. (Merlot and Mythbusters ftw!) Now I'm eating the apple tart that I just threw together at the last minute and it's, holy Pomona, so good!
smonster - Nov 26, 2009 9:09:11 am PST #1755 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Calli, I was just going to ask how the Lu was doing. Sounds like she's doing quite well!
I have had my feast, at my other grandma's retirement community, and now we're looking at old photos. There's even a photo of my grandparents at the Copacabana on their honeymoon in 1944.
Calli - Nov 26, 2009 9:11:28 am PST #1756 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Lu seems ok. She's not sure what to make of my wii bowling strike booty dance, but then who would be?
Maybe you could ask your grandparents if you could have some copies, smonster. I love seeing photos of my family before I was around to know them, and I know I wish I had more of them.
beth b - Nov 26, 2009 9:58:05 am PST #1757 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Early here. Wine will be opening momentarily
food soon
The cheese are being put in order... who knew cheese had an order
Barb - Nov 26, 2009 10:33:09 am PST #1758 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Poking head in from packing/writing lurkerdom to say HAPPY THANKSGIVING to the USians and to add how very grateful I am for you guys.
Also, how very grateful I am than in less than two months I'm going to be SO MUCH CLOSER to many of you.
::blowing kisses and going back to making pie::