Watching Thanksgiving Live on the Food Network, and it is basically Chef’s Behaving Badly. Anne Burrell is already doublefisting cocktails.
What are you all up to?
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Watching Thanksgiving Live on the Food Network, and it is basically Chef’s Behaving Badly. Anne Burrell is already doublefisting cocktails.
What are you all up to?
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de stijl
Are we talking DV or DA fisting?
sullyVan
Fighting in the rear, posts that is.
Lojasmo
Ate pad thai for lunch that was so damn hot I lost my ability to be hungry. My lips are still burning.
Tomorrow should be interesting.
Splitting Image
I’m going through all my DVDs in alphabetical order and making my way through “F”. I just watched the Fantastic Four. Last night I watched Fargo, which was unsurprisingly a lot better.
Next up is a Fistful of Dollars.
Phylllis
@Splitting Image: Heh. We watched Fargo the other night and came to the same conclusion. We’ve also been quoting random lines, such as “you know, funny looking” in totally non-appropriate moments.
Just polished off some shrimp and grits as a pre-antidote to Thanksgiving dinner. Yuuu-mmmy.
sullyVan
You are truly fortunate to have the group of Friends you have, still.
“My Group”, splintered. And now we have nothing, as a “Group”.
Kids, Divorces, Cheating, after a while, it breaks up most tight groups.
“RAGE ON”, Cole.
These conical heds have not a clue.
But, FUCK STILLERS! Denver RULES!.FUCK TEBOW!
I shook “Elways” hand once.
jeffreyw
Mmm… Tostadas
sullyVan
@jeffreyw: I had the BEST Chicken Gizzard Plate I ever had, out on “Padre Island”.
Came with a Biscuit, and Pepper Gravy.
The place is called,” Chicken, Good and Crispy”.
cathyx
I’m making tomato sauce from my garden tomatoes that I milled and threw into the freezer because I was too lazy to do it 2 months ago. Plus it was too hot to have the stove run all day to boil it down. Then I’ll make meatballs to cook in the sauce when it’s ready.
Diana
actually also pre-prepping Thanksgiving …. cleaning kitchen, bath, vacuuming, etc.
My only thanksgiving issue is that the only cutting board I have which is big enough for the turkey is also too big to sit in anything that will catch the juices running off of it, which means it has to sit on the kitchen counter (because if you put it on a table the juices would mess up the table) taking up valuable space in those crucial twenty minutes while everything else is getting off the stove. I live in Manhattan, in one of those apartments with only a few square feet of counterspace …
Does anyone else have this problem?
Litlebritdifrnt2
Waiting for the Shepards Pie to bake in the oven before devouring it, while getting hammered on a large bottle of Yellow Tail Chardonnay. Other than that nothing much.
sullyVan
Also, since this IS a “Open Thread”, FUCK YOU PIE FILTER MOTHERFUCKERS!
OR, JUST THE IDEA OF….DUMB-MOTHERFUKRS! AND YEAH, I LEFT IT OUT!
FOOLS!!
GO DO SOMETHING!
Suffern ACE
Me. I’m watching about episode 500 of “game stopped to determine if there was a fumble”. I wish the NFL would make fumble calls unreviewable.
PurpleGirl
A friend and I were going to have Thanksgiving dinner at my place but her Aunt asked her to the family and extended friends dinner she is holding and the Aunt also said to invite me. (I attended Thanksgiving dinner at the Aunt’s five years ago.) I don’t know yet what I will bring to the dinner. I’m looking forward to it. The people were interesting to talk with, so I expect to have some good conversation again this year.
ETA: I have to finish a new piece of jewelry by Thursday.
Phylllis
@Litlebritdifrnt2: We’re drinking the Mirassou Chardonnay. Going back to the Piggly Wiggly tomorrow to get a few more bottles while it’s on special for $6.99.
sherifffruitfly
Missed football all day yesterday and today playing Skyrim.
dammit – I can’t find that 3rd book to take back to winterhold. 2 of em were right in plain view – where the fuck is the 3rd???
lamh35
Ok gamers,
Anyone evder play “Uncharted”? Is it just a shoot-em up game or what?
I love playing the CSI games for Wii where you “solve” crimes and stuff. Anyone have any suggestions on good “mystery” games kind a like the CSI series?
Ekim
Chef’s? Chef’s what?
The Dangerman
@Lojasmo:
Will there be a Liveblog?
Laura Clawson
Want Lily pictures.
Bostondreams
Just finished Chapter Three of my PhD dissertation in curriculum and instruction. I see light at the end of a tunnel that I’ve been driving down since 2004. :)
AA+ Bonds
Is this showing up?
AA+ Bonds
Good
Omnes Omnibus
@The Dangerman:
Please say no… Please say no… Please say no… Please say no… Please say no…
Steeplejack
@Phylllis:
“End of story” is the line that has endured for me. Nice closure when you have gotten bogged down in some anecdote (or excuse) with no visible exit strategy.
Lojasmo
@The Dangerman:
No.
Omnes Omnibus
@Lojasmo: Woohoo! VICTORY!
AA+ Bonds
So I’m wondering why my posts in the OWS thread are being eaten, that seems very mysterious
PurpleGirl
@Bostondreams: Hope you complete the rest of it without too much tsouris.
I used to type mathematics dissertations; type and listen to various complaints about the process of getting the degree.
Joseph Nobles
Around 10 this morning, I was doing my 2012 version of Your Shape Fitness Evolved on the Xbox and tried out the Boot Camp option. It started out fast, and in under a minute, I felt something hit the back of my right calf and heard a pop at the same time. I’ve been propped up icing my calf sprain ever since.
Memo: if you’re thinking about having a calf strain in the future, I suggest not moving onto the third floor of a building with no elevator, with your bedroom on the fourth. Just saying.
Bostondreams
@sherifffruitfly:
It’s supposed to be on a pedastal after you kill the Caller. Hmm
Phylllis
@Steeplejack: I’m hoping for the perfect moment to use “he was uncircumcised”.
robertdsc-PowerBook
Playing the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection on the PS3. Modern Warfare 3 will be soon after.
Fucking Cowboys won again. Damn it.
AA+ Bonds
TROUBLESHOOTING UPDATE: in this thread my comments are being marked as spam, but not in any other.
Is anybody else having this problem anywhere else on the site? Please post your thoughts.
MikeJ
@Phylllis:
You need a breakfast.
Svensker
@Diana:
Buy a big cutting board with grooves for the juice. Seriously. I did and the only time we use it is at Thanksgiving, but oh the peace of mind to be able to carve the turkey with the juices contained.
Steeplejack
@Cole:
I’ve got to put in a plug for Bitchin’ Kitchen on the Cooking Channel (recently upscaled to Nadia G’s Bitchin’ Kitchen). It is very funny, and the food is surprisingly good for what initially seems like a “joke” cooking show.
You can get a taste at 9:00 and 9:30 p.m. EST tomorrow, and there will be a mini-marathon from 2:00 to 8:00 p.m. EST on Thanksgiving Day.
Pretty good trailer here.
Litlebritdifrnt2
@AA+ Bonds: Can’t help you but I went through a period of time when my comments would not show up AT ALL, I mean really, just “poof” into the blogosphere and there they went.
AA+ Bonds
It’s almost as if someone with control over the spam filter were fronting as this Darnell from LA anti-OWS troll……….
but that would never happen because certainly no one who writes on here would be so bratty and incompetent as to have to shut down dissent
Phylllis
@MikeJ: There’s enough left over for breakfast tomorrow. It’s the perfect dish that way; you can have it at breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner.
AA+ Bonds
Speaking of, I wonder when you’re going to ban Darnell from LA for being a racist anti-OWS troll
Omnes Omnibus
@AA+ Bonds: You have stuff showing up over there. Nothing timestamped after 7:07pm though.
MikeJ
@Phylllis: I was trying to cross the streams with the Fargo quotes.
jnfr
We set up a new Roku on the upstairs TV. It’s just the tiniest cutest little thing and it does what it does with perfection. So soon I’m getting off the computer and going to watch “Intelligence” on Netflix streaming.
cathyx
@Litlebritdifrnt2: I found that there are certain links that are not allowed and if you include one in your comment, your comment will just not happen.
Gravenstone
@sullyVan: Nice of you to volunteer for the pie, jackass. Seriously, if we wish to remove the written waste products of the sundry trolls here, who the fuck are you to complain about it? That is, unless you wish to join their ranks. In that case, mission accomplished, motherfucker.
Phylllis
@MikeJ: I got it after I posted. Good one.
lamh35
ok, this is just getting ridiculous. This goes beyond just PUMA dreams right? Are there actually Dems who believe any type of intervention to get POTUS not to run for re-election will be good for the Dems? Really, really??? At this point there is better than a 50/50 chance that Obama will be re-elected. How many times can Hilary Clinton say give up on the run Hillary run ’12 memes?
The Hillary Moment
President Obama can’t win by running a constructive campaign, and he won’t be able to govern if he does win a second term.
By PATRICK H. CADDELL
AND DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN
gogol's wife
@Diana:
Yes. My solution is I never make turkey any more. This isn’t an option for everyone, I realize.
Bostondreams
@sherifffruitfly:
Ha. Look at the ceiling. A bug can make the book from the center pedestal float up, or just not be there.
Steeplejack
@Phylllis:
Don’t worry, it’s bound to come up someday. Don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. Guess it depends on the circumstances.
Bostondreams
@lamh35:
Oh my god. Really? I like Hillary, but if they won’t negotiate with Obama, why would they with Clinton?
And I notice that they show his numbers against ‘generic republican’, but against one of the current dwarves running for the nod.
quannlace
Yeah, the real ‘Thanksgiving Live’ was on at noon today. Don’t know what the virtue of ‘live’ was. They still could have had a taped show and answered questions that viewers had submitted. I recognized most of the chefs except for the chick with the long blonde hair who kept repeating that she was serving her squash soup as ‘shooters!’ But it was a hoot hearing Bobby Flay say they changed their pre-dinner cranberry cocktails, cause people were getting too hammered.
Yutsano
@lamh35: A) It’s the Wall Street Journal. They’ve wanted the nigra gone since he won.
B) Doug Schoen is the weasel they chose to bury under the main writer, but this stinks of his PUMA centrist bullshit.
Baud
The Friendly Skies
Diana
Svensker, I may just do that. I hadn’t thought of it, and I’ve got plenty of time to shop Wednesday evening…
BWT roasting a bird is basically about the easiest thing you can do. You put it in the oven and a few hours later you have dinner. It takes time, but not a lot of work.
A really well-made ratatouille, where you cook all the vegetables separately in order to make sure each is cooked to its actual best stage of doneness and then you layer them all in the pan?
Now that’s work….
Mr Stagger Lee
Watching the Sprint Cup Stewart-Edwards living up their billing.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Got sucked into looking at Bitchin’ Kitchen clips on YouTube. Here’s one you’ll like, Cole–word of the day. Nickelback reference for the win.
Baud
Almost as good as air porn:
burnspbesq
Getting ready for the MLS Final tonight. Go Galaxy!
darkmatter
Dipped into some more Saints Row: The Third. Not even half way done and loving every minute of it. Killing gangs with either a attack chopper or reaper drones never really gets old.
burnspbesq
Two more weekends of BCS carnage like the last one and we could be looking at Stanford vs. Virginia Tech for the national championship.
Go carnage!
DanielX
First evening of having all three of my sisters-in-law in the same city with my long suffering spouse, which means it’s time for heavy consumption of mood elevators (Black Bush is on deck this instant). To say that it’s difficult for them to agree on anything (like when to have dinner) is like saying that Charlie Sheen has a few personal issues…
Love them dearly and respect them all, but been my experience that having them all in the same location for any amount of time is like having too many fissionable materials in the same location – you know it’s going to end in tears for somebody, you just don’t know who or exactly when.
Q. Hey, what’s a holiday without drama?
A. Oooh! I can answer this one! It’s really nice and very unusual.
J. Michael Neal
I’m getting really frustrated at the number of people around here who take any questioning of the tactics of the OWS movement to mean that the questioner is a troll or in the pocket of the 1%. Guess what, people: some of us agree with the main thrust of the OWS movement and are distressed that it *won’t* have the kind of effect that we’d like to see. If you can’t accept that it’s possible to have that kind of disagreement, then you’re a part of the problem.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: I never thought I’d say this but: GO HOGS!!
WeeBey
@Baud:
Buh, buh, buh, buh…
He’s WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!
cathyx
@DanielX: I have to say that I feel for you. I have 2 sisters also and we are very close in age. When we 3 get together, which is not that often, fortunately, it starts out nice, we chat and find out what we all have been up to, but then once that’s over, we bicker and have serious issues that go back to the teen years. And then it’s not too pretty.
andy
We had our first measurable snow yesterday, and it bugs me that I had to put the sandals away. It’s amazing how much the white stuff makes cold feel colder, you know?
Decided to do risotto with red bell pepper and ginger pork before I head back into work again.
Yutsano
KThug goes there.
OzoneR
@lamh35: No, just Doug Schoen.
Litlebritdifrnt2
@gogol’s wife:
Cook it upsidedown, breast in the bottom of the roasting pan, until the last 20 minutes. Most delicious, moist, perfect turkey ever. It may not look Norman Rockwell perfect but it tastes delicious.
jeffreyw
@andy: Very nice!
Anne Laurie
@lamh35: Both Caddell and Schoen are DINOs who make their considerable salaries concern-trolling for Murdoch (who owns the WSJ) and his upscale readers (proud One-Percenters or would-be One-Percenters). Hillary has every reason to ignore their “advice”, as everyone involved in this kabuki (Caddell, Schoen, Murdoch, and the Media Village courtiers who’ll troll this sewage for “some centrists say” links) fully understands. The only ones who’ll be fooled are the low-level WSJ readers who’ll chain-mail it, and the most — shall we say, fervent — supporters of President Obama, who will misread it as yet another traitorous attack by PUMA firebaggers ! ! elevety-one !.
The only thing dumber than believing crap like this is using crap like this to attack other Obama voters for suspicion of not voting for Obama in the right spirit, aka, the famed Democratic Circular Firing Squad.
Suffern ACE
@OzoneR: Well, and his business partner Penn. Probably the wisest thing the President has done in terms of his political organization is not buying them off by hiring them as advisors. That’s what they’ve really wanted, is the Democratic money train to continue for their benefit. They are expensive and they are losers.
Raven
Made the drive down from Georgia, through the middle of Alabama to the Emerald Coast. Surf fished for a couple of hours and have a deep sea trip booked for the morning. Not a bad sunset.
Narcissus
For certain values of fisting.
Raven
@Litlebritdifrnt2: Look at Julia’s Butterflied Turkey in “The Way To Cook”.
JCT
@Yutsano: Loved this line:
So fucking perfect.
I am simultaneously working on my Thanksgiving menu for 20 and a hemodynamics lecture for tomorrow AM.
Hopefully I won’t mix the two things up while teaching.
Yutsano
@JCT: If you start typing about bloody turkey…back away from the computer slowly and go get a beverage. That will mean your wires are crossed. :)
JCT
@Yutsano: The funny part is that I used to set aside the turkey heart so that I could dissect it for all my nieces and nephews after dinner. I was always the “fun” aunt.
Hill Dweller
Just watched My Life as a Turkey on PBS, which was great.
Also, too, Schoen is a scumbag who was caught lying about his own polling on OWS.
Yutsano
@JCT: I’m kinda glad you’re a cardiologist. If you were a neurologist I’d have to be cranky with you on general principle. If I never had to deal with one ever again I’d be a happy duck. But I’m high-risk for MS so…yeah.
xian
@Baud: this is great news for John McCain!
xian
@Baud: um, privacy?
Ben Cisco (mobile)
Saw the Panthers lose again. Celebrated my 49th year on this rock yesterday. Cannot wait to see what tomorrow brings.
JCT
@Yutsano: I would say that of all of the medical subspecialties (though Neurologists consider themselves an entire separate branch), cardiologists and neurologists are the “most” opposite.
Grossly breaks down to “doers” and “thinkers” — as my neurologist colleagues would say. I won’t indulge in specialty-bashing, but you can guess what I think of that…. .
I know exactly what you are talking about.
Southern Beale
So this European guy spend three months in America and concluded he never wants to live here, wrote a blog post about it and promptly got slammed by Americans who think we are teh awesome.
i happen to think he makes some really valid points. But, you be the judge.
SiubhanDuinne
@Laura Clawson:
Let’s get our priorities straight.
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven:
Lovely sunset. Here in Ottawa it just goes BAM! DARK! at 5:00 p.m. with little transition or crepuscularity.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ben Cisco (mobile):
Happy belated, and welcome to your 50th year
ruemara
Made some new pieces, baked some tasty treats, took pictures of the senior cat. About to log into some WarCrack and try to gain some guild rep. I just moved to a new one and I forgot to get a guild tabard when I was exalted with the old one. Eff this guild rep shit.
jl
@Southern Beale: Wow, I’m half Irish. Wow! Awesome, that dude is Irish.
Srsly, he makes good points. Some of the criticisms seem too trivial to justify deciding not to settle here. Every country has its cultural aggravations and annoying ticks.
He missed some biggies, like economic insecurity and risk involved for everyone except wage slaves working for large institutions. He must have some kind of international health insurance policy, I cannot imagine he had to deal with US health insurance, or other kinds of insurance, and not mentioned it (unless it was covered under the Corporations Run the Damn Place item).
AxelFoley
Haven’t read the read of this thread yet, but I’m sure someone took this comment and ran with it.
Canuckistani Tom
@SiubhanDuinne:
Strange, I’ve been enjoying all the pretty sunsets here in Toronto.
AxelFoley
@lamh35:
lamh, Uncharted is THE FUCKING SHIT, girl. My favorite series on the PS3. I beat Uncharted 3 the other day on Normal, now making a run on Crushing (the hardest level).
It’s more than a shooter. It’s also a platformer, and much of the storylines from all three Uncharted games have basis in real-life history (Sir Francis Drake, Marco Polo, etc.).
And the graphics…man, this series is among the best looking of any games this generation on either the PS3 or the Xbox 360 (I have both systems).
Get all three Uncharted games. You won’t regret it.
sherifffruitfly
@Bostondreams:
Google figured it out for me. Apparently the relentless force shout can blow it away. I re-loaded and grabbed the book before fighting. All good. :)
burnspbesq
Galaxy wins MLS Cup, 1-0.
Meanwhile, in Albuquerque, Duke got royally hosed. An utterly unjustified sending-off cost them a chance to knock top-ranked New Mexico out of the NCAA tournament in the second round. You suck, ref.
MikeJ
@burnspbesq: qq moar
Paul in KY
@AA+ Bonds: Surely not here!
Paul in KY
@lamh35: I don’t consider Mr. Caddell to be a Democrat. Don’t know about the other guy.
Paul in KY
@Baud: The stewardesses probably don’t want people jacking off into their blankets & whatnot.
Paul in KY
@Raven: Where exactly you at on the Gulf Coast? I’ll be at St. George’s Island next year sometime.
Hope you catch some good eating!