| Food: need recipe... |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|11:42 am] |
Susan swears up and down that someone on he friends-list on LiveJournal (which is a subset of mine, basically) posted a good recipe for christmas cookies and we've been going nuts trying to find it.
Mere and I are VERY fond of speculaas and kruidnoten; they are ginger cookies that are family pass-downs, and normally, I just buy a sack of kruidnoten (NOT the Frisian style) and speculaas at a store or online; Susan said that she wanted to make some, so I have been frantically digging around for a recipe. (note: my family background is 'lotharingian', but a lot of my food stuff interests come from the Netherlands and the Wesphalian area of Germany.
If anyone out there has a good recipe for these or had originally posted this recipe that Susan remembers being up in the last couple of months, please let me know. Thanks! |
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| Amuse me |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|12:33 pm] |
Or I will quote Andy Schlafly at you once more:
There's a broader point here. Why the big push for black holes by liberals, and big protests against any objection to them? If it turned out empirically that promoting black holes tends to cause people to read the Bible less, would you still push this so much? Certainly there is no practical justification to pushing black holes; no one will ever be helped by them in any way.--Andy Schlafly 12:03, 13 November 2009 (EST)
Nicked from pharyngula |
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| Antick Musing's Fridays, Black and Otherwise |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|12:10 pm] |
[...] [M]odern Westerners can be separated by the work they did when they were young and unskilled. One great mass worked in retail, selling goods of one kind or another. A second cohort worked in food service, waiting tables or working a grill. And the third group, seemingly the luck ones, were those rich or privileged enough not to have to work at all -- the ones who were children, then entirely students, and then set off on their careers, without ever having had "just a job." |
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| Thanksgiving picspam |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|11:11 am] |
This was what I woke up to:
Having a puppy say "I love you, let's go for a walk!" is not a bad way to start the day. Even if the cats are sulking. |
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| Progress |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|11:06 am] |
Cornbread for dressing: done.
Roasted garlic for mashed potatoes: done.
Apple pie: done.
Cherry pie: done.
Blueberry pie: baking now.
Pumpkin pie: still to come.
Turkey: still thawing in a water bath. (We've been swimming it since 7PM last night, when we brought it home.)
Potatoes: being peeled for boiling.
Sausage for dressing: awaiting frying.
Dressing proper: Last thing through the oven, save only the brown-and-serve rolls.
Frozen corn and frozen pearl onions: awaiting microwaving.
Cream sauce: still to be done; next to last thing on stovetop.
Cranberry sauce: to be done while turkey cooking; last thing on stovetop.
Onward. |
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| Rest and Be Thankful |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|07:33 am] |
Unless you're the chef, then it's Cook and Be Thankful.
For health, for family, for friends, for good work and good fun, for all the fortune that I have in my life, I am thankful. That means you, too. I'm thankful we're all engaged in this huge conversation.
May your day be calm, delicious, and full of things to be thankful. |
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| Birds in the Roasters |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|07:49 am] |
So the birds went in on time, before 7 am. Frosty morning, soon to warm. Clear and lovely. One set of guests has already let me know that illness hit and they're not coming. (This is why the word for the day is "flexibility. Sometimes I get more, sometimes fewer, guests.)
If the train left on time, Distant Guest should be having a ride through late-fall/winter Texas on a gorgeous crisp, clear morning, and arrive at Austin to be met by Longstanding Traditional Guests. Other guests from various locations will be coming (or not coming, depending on their health, whether the car has flat tires, etc.) and so I need to get up from this chair and leap into action again. Or...something. |
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| Gifts |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|07:47 am] |
I said on another LJ:
I wish there were a way to erase the reciprocity aspect of gift-giving. I wish that I could magically make it the norm that people give gifts when they feel like it, while feeling no expectation, and the recipient feels no obligation, that there will be a gift given in exchange, then or ever, or that if a gift is given it will be of like value. |
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| Happy Thanksgiving! |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|07:46 am] |
To all who celebrate it, happy Thanksgiving! And to those who don't, have a great day!
I'm not going to do the "what I'm thankful for." If it isn't obvious in my everyday behavior, listing it on one day hasn't much point. |
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| Food: Zut alors! |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|08:14 am] |
Just the thing for your Thanksgiving feast: White Castle Hamburger stuffing to go with your turkey. Mange! Vite, vite!
Yes, I’d use it for fun if we were having a weird-food-party this New Years Eve. Which, unfortunately, we won’t. (Mere and I like White Castle; its one of the odd tastes that I got from my Dad.) |
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| Happy turkey! |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|08:11 am] |
(No turkeys were harmed in any way in the making of this post.)
Gray morning again, not raining at the moment. Temperature 43 F for the newspaper walk, which walk bestowed more exercise than usual -- today's collection of ads and inserts weighed in at three pounds. Death To Trees!
We languish bereft of family in our northern exile, so Wife will lower our two-customer culinary target to a roasted chicken. Hence the happy turkey (alive, alive-o) of the title.
For those of you not of the USA persuasion, happy Thursday! |
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[Nov. 26th, 2009|07:48 am] |
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Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! I'm thankful for my amazing family, my fabulous authors, my discerning readers and the work I love. Eat, drink and be merry! |
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