Quick update from the kitchen
It’s pie week here in the Socks household. The cherry streusel pie I baked the other day is already gone, but fortunately its place has been taken by the apple pie and two pumpkin pies now cooling on the counter.
We have homemade cranberry sauce for the first time this year, and it’s fabulous.
Tomorrow my Dad will roast part of a dead animal and we’ll have the usual accoutrements: dressing, gravy, smashed potatoes, green beans, and whatever else we decide is necessary in order to induce maximum post-prandial sloth.
For those of you outside ‘Murka who have no idea what I’m on about: tomorrow is Thanksgiving.
22 Responses to “Quick update from the kitchen”
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Paul Tergeist says:
Post-prandial sloth is brought on by tryptophan. I recommend picking your dead animal carefully. For instance, cat meat has very little tryptophan and dog milk has none at all, so use it for making gravy. I wonder if McDonalds is going to be open tomorrow so I don’t have to eat Cheerios again.
Have a great one, Vi. Thanks for being a pal. The same goes for the rest of you homers, too. Please help bring our friends and relatives home from the Hell of foreign wars that privileged sons start but can’t stop.
For anyone interested, I have determined how to REALLY get your name on at least one government watch list. Join this: http://www.jpfo.org/
I am not Jewish. I don’t even know anyone who is Jewish. But joining this will get you in the database. It won’t get you classified as a ‘terrorist’, but the government will waste an inordinate amount of time and resources spying on you.
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Paul Tergeist says:
Vi, can you give me ten minutes from post time to edit my drivel before the lock goes on?
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Mandos says:
I fled ‘Murka. And lost my hat.
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Paul Tergeist says:
I’ll send you another one. What sort of arab rag is it? Wait…..I’ll troll you AFTER the weekend. I’d rather you had a great holiday.
(2) Even as the doctors were saying Litvinenko was improving, I, on this very blog, said he wouldn’t live. He won’t. He is failing fast.
(3) In my mind OJ Simpson personifies everything that EVERYONE including feminists should find abhorrent.
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richard cherry says:
Paul – are you in some contest with infidel to be resident weirdie? (i tried that for a while and had to acknowledge when i was beaten).
why OJ Simpson in particular? not saying he’s nice but why him as opposed to michelle malkin or the bloke on british tv who shouts and advertises cillit bang (a cleaning product, m’lud) or shrub or oh insert name here…vi is it ok to wish you a happy thanksgiving? it’s nice it’s a family thing but suspect it can be just another christmas-esque gobblefest. is it viewed by some as the celebration of the white invader conning the indigenous peoples? serious question cos while i know (some of) the story of its origins (at least the approved version) i don’t know any of the subtext.
god – now i’ve probably started a flame war – so have a nice meal and if there’s something i’m thankful for it is americans who think and feel and give the lie to my bigoted view of america being inhabited ONLY by the blinkered rabid christian right with their evil plan to steal all they can and send us all to buggery (bit like them poor indigenous chaps….no no no, richard!)
cos i really was in danger of thinking that before i started talking (and listening) to you lot. even the bloody canadians. -
Tom Nolan says:
I was invited to a Thanksgiving dinner last year, and got the impression that the whole thing was just an excuse to celebrate Christmas twice. The big difference between the food I was served and the food I’m used to was its unspeakable sugariness: the stuffing was sweet, the gravy was sweet, even the veggies seemed to have been glucose-enriched. Obviously, as a Brit, it hardly behoves me to criticize any other nation’s culinary practices, but why is American food so often like this? As though it had been prepared for a children’s tea-party, I mean. Even in American restaurants I would often be tempted to assume that I’d accidentally chosen something off the kids’ menu – except that the size of the portion made that unlikely.
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Infidel says:
Wishing everyone a place at the Norman Rockwell happy Thanksgiving!
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will says:
You can get anything you want at Violet’s restaurant
You can get anything you want at Violet’s restaurant
Walk right in, it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Violet’s restaurant…
Socks, I wanna kill. I wanna kill! I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth! Eat dead, burnt bodies! I mean: Kill. Kill -
henderson says:
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Paul Tergeist says:
Paul – are you in some contest with infidel to be resident weirdie? (i tried that for a while and had to acknowledge when i was beaten).
-RCWeirdie? Friend, you wound me to the core. I am the epitome of baseline-normal. Why OJ instead of Michelle Malkin? She didn’t butcher her ex, get away with it, and then wave it around like a badge of honor.
Nolan, I have no idea where you ate last year, but it wasn’t prepared correctly. Turkey gravy isn”t sugary if it’s made with my secret blend of seven herbs and spices.
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gordo says:
“She didn’t butcher her ex, get away with it, and then wave it around like a badge of honor.”
Wave what around?
Never mind, I don’t want to know.
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henderson says:
There are some nice vegitarian recipes on the internet for Thanksgiving. I going to try some next year.
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Paul Tergeist says:
What a great idea. Maybe you can carve a turkey shape out of a big block of tofu/tempeh, color it brown and pretend it is meat….which is what you wanted to eat in the first place. I recommend that all omnivores attempt to move back down the food chain to an all vegetable diet which you must gather yourselves. Then spend some time in trees collecting your fellow fruits and nuts. Maybe you can evolve smaller brains.
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Violet says:
I don’t know about the sugary food either. Here’s a typical ‘murkan Thanksgiving menu, southern style; notice the mix of savory and sweet:
Turkey — savory
Stuffing — savory
Pan dressing — savory
Gravy — savory
Mashed Potatoes — savory
Green Bean Casserole — savory
Rolls — well, it’s bread
Cranberry Sauce — tart-sweet
Candied Yams or Sweet Potatoes — sweet
OR
Fruit Salad — sweetIn my family we never have sweet potatoes/yams; we always do fruit salad instead. But I think most people do the candied yams thing.
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richard cherry says:
wooh – give thanks for real, oh doctor, for this very day (just begun in uk and just after start of play in oz) i have managed to put you on my bogroll. me techno man! you need help with blog, pretty lady?
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Violet says:
I’m still thinking about the sugar in food question, and it occurs to me that Tom Nolan’s Thanksgiving hosts may have been using a lot of prepared foods — canned gravy, stuffing mix, etc. It’s true that prepared foods in America have a lot of sugar in them (glucose of one sort or another is on every label, it seems), and I don’t really know why. But you definitely notice it if you’re in the habit of eating mostly home-cooked food made from basic ingredients.
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Violet says:
Richard, I’m honored and thrilled. But, not to harsh your technowizard vibe or anything, you’ve got two extra forward slashes in the address link for me on your blogroll. So it doesn’t work.
Also — and not to overload your techno plate or anything — but the next time you comment here you might want to change the URL associated with your name so it goes to your new blog.
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Tom Nolan says:
My knowledge of the US and its cuisine is hardly extensive. I lived in New Jersey for a year, that’s all. But my experience of the edulcorated quality of much of the food was not, I think, a figment of my imagination – most of the foreign students at the college I was living in noticed it too. The stuffing with the turkey was sweet enough to be a dessert (whereas Brit stuffing is peppery and slightly bitter), and as for the bread, I don’t think I had a roll or slice of the stuff that didn’t make me wonder if I shouldn’t spread insulin on it as a precaution. Maybe it’s just NJ?
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Paul Tergeist says:
I rummaged around in the fridge and found enough leftover stuff to make a ham and cheese sandwich.
I suppose it was savory/sweet. I put a little mayo and tomato on it. -
Infidel says:
Tom Nolan,
Like there is an “American” food somewhere on this continent between Mexico and Canada. You may have said SALT, instead of sugar and been right much of the time. Let’s see, there’s SWEET, SOUR, SALTY, BITTER, SAVORY, SPICEY and uh… There ya go-Thats it. Now let’s stuff those birds with food and see where they fall. Buttered rolls are, uh…sweet. Everything at the Finch residence is, well it depends on how liberal the particular guest gets with the syrup-sweet!. -
Infidel says:
About 25 percent of the U.S. population is classified as supertasters, a genetic condition in which people experience roughly three times the sweetness or bitterness of the foods that they taste in comparison with other people, most likely due to the presence of higher numbers of taste buds.
It’s the other three quarters of Americans that can’t get enough. -
henderson says:
No. America is not the root of all shite in the world.
