In case you’re new to Medium Cool, BGinCHI is here once a week to offer a thread on culture, mainly film & books, with some TV thrown in. We’re here at 7 pm on Sunday nights.
In this week’s Medium Cool, let’s do a Boxing Day edition.
No, we’re not talking about the movie Boxing Day, whose trailer is linked above. But we’re using the trailer to this movie anyway because finding an image for Boxing Day, the day, is impossible!
Of course there’s football. And leftovers. What sorts of cultural activities do you do on Boxing Day?
Craig
Brunch
WaterGirl
Eat leftover stuffing for breakfast. That isn’t exactly culture, but it is tradition.
Baud
Hanging out here. Same as every other day.
AxelFoley
Boxing Day looks good. If I were going to the movies, I’d check it out. But not with this pandemic still showing its ass.
Miss Bianca
Boxing Day Mummer’s Play
better sound quality on this one.
Sure Lurkalot
Lately, Xmas has been “local”, traveling 50 miles or so by car. Boxing Day is a travel day, either returning home or departing guests. Napping, doing laundry, generally sick of eating. And enjoying the few gifts exchanged.
Kalakal
Back in the UK Boxing day was a walk to try to alleive the previous days excesses with family followed by dropping in at various friends to repeat the excesses. I have to confess culture did not feature strongly.
Today, just hanging out
Raven
Back at the B&B. We did our best to distance but, when someone’s mother dies, hugs happen.
Dan B
We are sending pics of heavy snowfall, cars sideways on steep streets (What. Were. They. Thinking? -NO!), and cat despairing at being stuck for days inside.
But, my nephew and my partner’s sister 90 miles north had a whiteout. 60mph wind, heavy snow, 16°. We’ve got it easy – about 6″ snow and down to 18° tonight, coldest in decades.
Starfish
We rarely watch movies, but we watched 8-bit Christmas on the HBO Max a few days ago. Neal Patrick Harris is a dad who tells his daughter about how hard he and his friends worked to get a Nintendo in 1988.
It was surprising because Neal Patrick Harris looks the age he is supposed to, and I was not ready for him to be a person who is a few years older than me.
Litlebritdifrnt
Bubble and Squeak for breakfast, a boxing day tradition over here as it is made from left over potatoes and sprouts. Also watched an animated video about fox hunting which is beautifully done. It can be found here:
https://twitter.com/Keeptheban_ or if you don’t do Twitter here: https://www.keeptheban.uk/
I have recently got involved in the anti fox hunting movement and while I am not well enough to do anything physical I can sure do some online agitating which after Christmas I am about to do.
Yutsano
The leftovers from the enchilada fiesta yesterday will be part of my lunch over the next week. My oldest brother is staying an extra night so there’s a standing rib roast in the oven. And I need to get my laundry started.
Boxing Day looks charming as all hell. I’m not going anywhere near a theatre if I can help it. And I can.
Suzanne
I ate a second piece of cheesecake for dessert. Imma throw away the rest of this cheesecake. Trouble.
I took down the holiday decorations today. In the Before Times, I left them up through the New Year. But both this year and last, I am ready for more visual calm.
cope
No traditions but I made an easy 50 mile drive back to my daughter’s to retrieve the camera I left there yesterday. Le sigh…
The return trip was tedious and lengthy as I got stuck in Disney-related traffic on the way home. Hot dogs and chips for late lunch, R & R since then. Oooo…snack time.
Kalakal
@Kalakal: The hanging out this afternoon turned out be watching the 1999 BBC take on David Copperfield. Ridiculously starry – Maggie Smith, Ian Mckellen, Bob Hoskins, Daniel Radcliffe, Dawn French etc etc. Some very good performances with Nicholas Lyndehurst outstanding as a marvellously slimy Uriah Heep.
Looks gorgeous, well directed and written, exceptional acting. I’m enjoying it
MagdaInBlack
I’ve been watching Terry Pratchett’s “The Color of Magic” on YouTube, and I’m delighted to have finally seen “The Luggage” in action.
billcinsd
I did listen to this today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uDc5CnDkkE
Gin & Tonic
@Suzanne:
In the olden days, when I’d drive to work, I invariably saw one or two Christmas trees at the curb the morning of the 26th. I always felt really sorry for those people.
sab
@Litlebritdifrnt: The British aristocracy would be horrified, but in Ohio they foxhunt by dragging a scented bag on the route they want the hunt to take. My aunt and uncle used to do that. They said it was funny because the foxes would sit under shrubbery and watch the hunt go by with interest but not much concern.
eclare
No traditions here. I’m watching The Flight Attendant, pretty good.
Josie
@WaterGirl: Yes, with gravy and cranberry sauce on top. Breakfast of champions!
MagdaInBlack
@Gin & Tonic: I always feel sad for the trees.
Gin & Tonic
Another stupid WaPo piece arguing that the US concede on the Ukraine issue (I won’t link to it because it’s stupid.) The piece is labeled “Perspective.” You think Kyiv’s perspective is presented? Duh, of course not. An independent nation of 43+ million people, second-largest by land area in Europe is what, chopped liver?
Starfish
@Suzanne: I am so sorry about your cheesecake problems. Let me take care of that for you. ?
sab
@Gin & Tonic: We are taking the stuffed Grinch down on New Years Eve, but the trees and wreath stay up until twelfth night. We like the lights in winter.
I can see taking the Christmas decorations down early with over-excited children in the house.
I was sensible in baking this year so the cookies are almost gone. Made gingerbread cake today to go with the leftover turkey sandwiches for dinner for tje rest of this year.
Gin & Tonic
@MagdaInBlack: For probably 20 years now, we’ve bought real Christmas trees from a local, family-run, sustainable farming operation. It’s a crop, just with a somewhat longer growing cycle. We go out and tag the tree in November, then get it cut and pick it up in mid-December. Never have a problem having it last until well past Orthodox Christmas.
BGinCHI
@Dan B: Whoa. Where is that?
Coming to you from lovely Tucson, and not looking forward to returning to Chicago weather…..
sab
@WaterGirl: That was exactly my reasoning for making stuffing for Christmas. What am I supposed to eat for breakfast if we don’t make it?
BGinCHI
@Yutsano: YUM
Litlebritdifrnt
@sab: That is what they are supposed to do here as Fox Hunting has been banned since (I think) 2004. The hunts however claim to “accidentally” catch and kill foxes when the hounds stray off the laid trail and pick up the scent of a fox. However the hunters themselves (in a recent criminal trial) have admitted that trail hunting is a smoke screen for hunting the real thing. Anyway if you watch the video (it is not long, 8 minutes or so) that explains everything that is going on right now.
BGinCHI
We started the TV series The Great the other night (Hulu).
We may have to have a MC about it! It’s SO GOOD!
Extremely irreverent and fast and funny. Reminds me of Iannucci (the guy who did Veep, etc.). Great cast and writing and costumes.
Anyone else watching it?
laura
I keep thinking about 84 Charring Cross Road at the holidays, but mostly Boxing Day. When he sets the slice of ham before his nan and she about loses her senses, well, that’s a bit of alright served up by the glory that is Ann Bancroft.
sab
I think we will try bubble and squeak sometime this winter.
sab
@Litlebritdifrnt: Our dogs around here haven’t been trained to pay much attention to foxes.
delk
My husband put to use the “101 Lasagnas” cookbook I got him for Christmas One down, one hundred to go!
Steeplejack (phone)
@BGinCHI:
I believe Dan B is in Seattle.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
We are still leading a mostly-locked-in life. Movie theaters (or live theaters) are not yet on the list of places we’re willing to go in person.
So we’re grumpy that the industry is not doing more simultaneous streaming releases. I would happily pay theater prices to stream a first-run movie and support the damned industry, if they’d let me.
I can’t recall all the new movies I was looking for on streaming but couldn’t find, but they include the new Spiderman and Ghostbusters: Afterlife
greengoblin
December 26 was my Pop’s birthday. Since his passing, the family tradition is to light a candle and toast to him on Boxing Day.
He is missed.
Raven
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I hear Dublin is awesome.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@sab: Our beagle wasn’t trained to hunt foxes (as far as I know, but we don’t know how he spent the first 18 months of his life). But he goes absolutely insane every time he scents or sights a fox.
Which is practically every night on the last walk of the day, as we have two neighborhood foxes who seem very much aware that dogs on leashes are harmless and will casually cross the street within feet of us without even glancing our way.
MomSense
I’m organizing and cleaning my room including sorting through my clothes, fabrics, and yarn stash. Why am I doing this? I’m in too deep to stop now.
Sure Lurkalot
@Yutsano: Enchiladas are a favorite of mine but I haven’t been able to replicate the dark red grainy sauce that I’ve had out. Any pointers if you make that?
Feathers
As a person of Irish descent, I’d like to know what this Boxing Day is. Celebrating St. Stephen’s Day in this house.
Watched the Japanese and Russian figure skating championships, both held this weekend.
Play by plays and videos of the events on rockerskating.com
Also watched the hot gossipy dish on the Russian championship on The Skating Lesson
Also continued my Margery Allingham Campion mysteries read. About to finish up The Fashion in Shrouds
Raven
@Sure Lurkalot: no maters
https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/red-enchilada-sauce/
Dan B
@BGinCHI: Seattle. Much warmer in Chicago.
SiubhanDuinne
@MagdaInBlack:
The trees should be denuded of tinsel and taken to zoos. Apparently the giraffes love them. Some communities have programs to do exactly this.
JaySinWa
@Steeplejack (phone): Yep, I am Seattle adjacent and can confirm the weather report. Shoveled snow this afternoon and knocked most of it off the car in the hopes that sunshine will solar oven the rest tomorrow.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
I am denuded.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
He’s denuded,
He’s deluded,
He’s deBauded!
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Like.
I’m also delightful and delicious, as well as delovely.
Dan B
@Baud: DeJoy no.
DeJoyful yes!
UncleEbeneezer
Today is FIL’s birthday! So we dragged him to Lake O’ The Pines in East TX for his 84th! Got a late start so only got here around 6. But man, does TX landscape changes for the better once you get to around Gilmer. Rolling hills and pines. In-laws really enjoyed it after two years of being stuck at home.
And we only saw about five Trump signs during the 4 hour drive from Dallas. Way fewer than I expected.
Lake house is lovely! Got here just in time for sunset. Tiring and dangerous trip (so far no Covid!) but glad we did it. Only so many years left with our folks.
Happy Boxing Day All!
VeniceRiley
Watched footie with the wife via WhatsApp and now I’m having Panda deliver Chinese. Next year, in person!
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: Some coastal areas use them to help stabilize dunes.
mrmoshpotato
Are you having a bully day?
currawong
Here in Australia it’s the Boxing Day test at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground). I’ve been several times but usually sit down and watch it on TV. This year it’s the ‘auld enemy’ England battling (or not) for the Ashes. 5 test matches around the country but always at the ‘G’ for Boxing Day
trollhattan
The Boxing Day Tsunami is what I think of on Dec 26. Maybe that’s morbid; it definitely made an impression.
debbie
I didn’t see one discarded Christmas tree at the curb today. First time in years.
Suzanne
@Gin & Tonic: The kids got so many bulky toys, and I just don’t want the tree taking up any more physical and visual space. We are also having some woodwork done in our entryway this week, and so I wanted to make space for them to move.
The holidays are fun but they are also a lot.
So in my family, everything is hectic from Thanksgiving through the New Year. December also brings my wedding anniversary and two Spawn birthdays, not to mention all of the work obligations at year-end. My own birthday is 1/7 and I am always totally over it by then and I just want to sleep.
Steeplejack
* DVR Alert *
TCM at 2:30 a.m. EST: Marcel Carné’s Children of Paradise (1945). A sprawling masterpiece set in Paris in the 1840s. Trailer here.
Jay
Watching some excellently produced fly fishing videos of rare places, drinking the good beer, belly full of snow crab pasta, looking out at the donut tracks in the parking lot and occasionally cracking the ice in the planters.
16 cm of snow and -5c in YVR tonight.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Roger Ebert on Children of Paradise.
(Some dispute on when the movie is set. Ebert says 1828, Wikipedia says sometime in 1830-48.)
BGinCHI
@Steeplejack: Such an amazing film.
BGinCHI
@Jay:
Wow. Really getting after it in terms of weather this year in BC. Fires, snow…..
mrmoshpotato
Rain, then some snow?, then crazy thunderstorm?!
Weather Underground’s Chicago radar is madness right now.
Suzanne
Okay, I think the previous thread is dead, and I need some advice. SuzMom got Mr. Suzanne and I a Cuisinart brand countertop convection oven/air fryer for Christmas. I am not really a fried-food person, but always love to make dinner faster/easier/healthier. What the hell should I make with this? I bought some sweet potato pieces cut all zig-zag to try. But I don’t really like fried chicken, pizza, etc. Does anyone have one of these? Do you have any favorite recipes or tips?
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: Ol’ Grego can help.
Some more
Matt McIrvin
@Gin & Tonic:
I had to do that once–we were leaving immediately after Christmas for a several-day trip to NYC to see the Radio City Music Hall Christmas show and do a bunch of other stuff (getting back just before the New Year’s insanity). But it meant there was no safe way to keep the tree up.
Jay
@BGinCHI:
Plus Drought, heat dome, floods, highways destroyed, and of course, Covid,
the snow and freezing temps arn’t that bad. Outside of the Lower Rainland, people and services know how to deal. In the Lower Rainland, all the people who can’t deal with driving in the snow, stay home on the 2nd, 3rd day and try to book their insurance claims with ICBC.
2022 should be “fun”, not.
On the bright side, I am off until the New Year, so by the time I go back to having to deal with Covidiots in public, some will have bought a clue, and hopefully Omicron will be flatlining,….
no comment
@BGinCHI: Saw the trailers for The Great several weeks ago while watching something else on Hulu. Binged both seasons. From the trailer, I was expecting a light romantic comedy that I could pay minimal attention to while doing other things. That wasn’t what I got, but I was pleasantly surprised by the show.
Jay
@Suzanne:
never used an airfryer, but once in a blue moon, used to make double fried fries, ( Russets with skin on, fried, then frozen,( removes excess moisture), then refried to golden and crisp),
or beer battered white fish, ( halibut, cod, perch, bass, whitefish, crappies, rock cod, pike, walleye, ocean perch),
you could start out with twinkies or Mars bars, ?
Chetan Murthy
@Suzanne: if this is the one, I clicked on recipes, and there seem to be a bunch. I jumped to pizza and roast chicken right away.
https://www.cuisinart.com/shopping/appliances/toaster_ovens/toa-60/
If it’s a regular convection toaster oven, I’ve read that those are great for baking generally.
JaySinWa
@Suzanne: Since it is a combo, you can always just use the oven/convection oven. I tend to bake one off loaves of bread in my Oster oven, no preheating and theoretically less energy use. Of course it has to be tall enough for conventional loaves. Focaccia might be a pizza alternative. I also bake bacon from time to time. More consistent than microwave and less mess than frying, the air fryer function may be work better than a toaster oven for that.
HumboldtBlue
8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Xmas Special.
HumboldtBlue
@Gin & Tonic:
I have a good friend who is a Dublin native and his recounting of his first Xmas in the States (San Francisco) is always a laugh.
He recalls looking out his kitchen window from the small apartment that overlooked the alley and the dumpsters. It was 8 or so in the morning of the 26th, and he looked across as a window opened in the building across the alley.
He then recounts being absolutely gobsmacked as a Xmas tree was shoved through the window and down to the dumpsters below.
He couldn’t understand, for him, Xmas had just begun.
Suzanne
@Chetan Murthy: That’s not exactly the one we got, but it is similar.
I have been getting good crockpot recipes during the pandemic, hopefully I’ll get good with this.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@HumboldtBlue: Look, that tree knew what it did.
opiejeanne
@Jay: That heat dome was terrible. We lost all the apples on two trees, but the damage didn’t show up until they were ripe and you cut into them. Some had small blisters a month after the heat left, when the apples were small. Those were much larger when the apples were full-sized, but there was internal damage as well. They cooked on the trees.
Gin & Tonic
@HumboldtBlue: My in-laws always celebrated the old-calendar Christmas (Jan 7) – so while they didn’t scour the streets on the 26th to get a tree to put up, my FIL drove a pretty hard bargain buying a tree from a street vendor late on Dec 24.
Jay
@Suzanne:
from what I have read, they are just a small convection oven, with a basket. Because they are small, they heat up and cook faster than a full size oven.
Because of the basket, you can “deep fry” traditional deep fried or prepared foods, with just a spritz of oil, rather than a bath, making them crispy, rather than soggy.
SWIMBO often has nuked premade frozen hashbrown patties as an AM carb. They are soggy. I always pan fry them as it crisps up the crust, gets rid of some of the excess oil from the Processor.
Steeplejack
@mrmoshpotato:
Merely rainy and cold (mid-40s) here in NoVA tomorrow. Something we haven’t had much of so far this season. A good day to stay in and putter around.
Leto
@Gin & Tonic: when Avalune and I took the pup out this morning for the usual walk, we passed a house where there was a tree out front already. Think this was about 10am? Guy was standing out front, drinking coffee, and smoking. Greeted us as we passed. Avalune made the comment that the tree was already out, guy said, “It is. The needles keep falling!” Didn’t want to ask him, “Did you water it?”
I think this is a good alternative: Rent a Christmas tree: How tree renting works, where to rent from and choosing the right one; Families take the same tree home year after year
Chetan Murthy
@Leto: At one level, that’s hilarious. At another, it’s lovely. I’ll stick with lovely.
mrmoshpotato
One quarter left in
the Washington-Dallas football gameDallas destroying Washington.Jay
@opiejeanne:
we (Public Services) weren’t ready for the Heat Dome here.
We lost over 800 people here.
At work our AC was overwhelmed, used to the Interior summer heat, I showed my coworkers tips and tricks to cope, wet kerchiefs around the carotid arteries to frozen wet baseball caps.
for the plants and wildlife, it was brutal. Thousands of miles of mudflats, rockpools and tidal zones were just wiped out.
Sebastian
Did someone mention Mr. Bean buying the armchair and driving it home atop a a Mini Morris? Because that’s the ultimate Boxing Day movie/clip. ??
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: We used to buy living trees and use then for several years and then plant them in the yard. One year, we brought the tree in and I hear a scream from the living room, seems that a lizard had taken up residence in the tree while it was outside.
Steeplejack
@Suzanne:
Some of the cooking shows and gurus have been surprisingly positive about air fryers. I don’t have one, but I’ve been tempted to borrow the one from Sighthound Hall, a gift that apparently they don’t use much, and give it a go. I have seen some recipes on line that look promising.
Since you’ve already got one, it might be worth blowing a little money on ATK’s Air Fryer Perfection ($12.69) or Healthy Air Fryer ($19.99). I have some of their other books, and they are pretty good.
opiejeanne
We used to take our tree to the New Moon Goat Sanctuary every year, but they haven’t been accepting them since the year before Covid began. The goats think they’re candy.
Dan B
@BGinCHI: Floods.
Next to my partner’s sister’s farm as well. She is so over it.
Just got pictures from my nephew in Bellingham. Sheet ice and drifts.
opiejeanne
@Jay: That’s terrible!
There was a high death toll along the West Coast, but I don’t remember how many, more than 1000. I remember being shocked by the number of deaths in King County, but we’re one of the two largest counties in Washington.
We emptied out the new greenhouse, carted everything outside the day before it began, and watered everything 3 times every day of that nightmare even though most of it was in the shade. Then we sat inside and tried not to die in between waterings. The second day, our youngest brought over a portable AC unit, and one we ordered online came the next day. Our poor cats were miserable until the first one was set up.
We installed AC in October.
It’s so cold right now that I’m glad we have snow to create a little insulation for the plants, but we will lose some things over the winter because it will be 12F, and the snow can only do so much.
I am very glad to be indoors with a heater that works.
opiejeanne
@Sebastian: https://www.amazon.com/Corgi-CC82114-Model/dp/B08563CK2J
Suzanne
@Steeplejack: I have ATK’s book for the instapot. It is good.
What I really need is for someone to figure out how to make pasta low-carb and nutritious.
opiejeanne
@Dan B: Yikes! there’s been some serious flooding this past fall, in places we visited just a week before, but I didn’t know about that.
Tehanu
We just got the tree up a couple of days ago — in fact, yesterday afternoon we finished the ornaments and I haven’t even done the tinsel yet. We usually leave it up through January because why not? I’ve collected a lot of unique ornaments over the years, starting with the first cheezoid elves and balls I got in the Sixties on my first Xmas away from home. Honestly, if I had the money, I’d buy a display case for the ornaments and be able to look at them all year. Today was just recovering from cooking dinner (game hens, stuffing, gravy, scalloped potatoes, broccoli, cranberry sauce with orange, yams).
Leto
@?BillinGlendaleCA: all I can think of is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and the squirrel in the tree. Hopefully your lizard made it outside in one piece ;)
NotMax
@MagdaInBlack
The Colour of Magic was fun, however would rate Going Postal higher, firing on all cylinders, Pratchett-wise.
Oh, BTW, whatever the name is (which I’ve thankfully wiped from memory) of the Discworld mini-series aired early this year, the universal pans for it were sufficient for this fellow to steer clear.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: Madame gave me an air fryer for xmas.
Steeplejack
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Which one? Good luck with it, and let us know how it goes.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: No lizards were harmed, however Madame needed a stiff drink afterwards.
Sebastian
@opiejeanne:
hahaha
Leto
@Suzanne: here you go: Pasta Grammar: Italian Food on a Diet; 500 Delicious Calories or Less
Edit: we’re taking a trip in April to visit them and their family in her hometown of Dasa (southern Italy) to learn more cooking stuff.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: This one, Ninja XL 10qt.
NotMax
@Suzanne
An air fryer is one kitchen appliance I, well , while don’t regret having, also don’t find lives up to its claims. Have yet to discover anything it does which can’t be done just as well (or better) without it. YMMV.
And you had better have the space for it someplace. They’re freakin’ bulky.
m.j.
Maybe Jared Schmeck should trade places with Joe Biden for a day.
I honestly don’t know why this episode of stupidity makes me so angry, but I think this guy needs to pay a heavy price for it.
He needs to become a meme and live in infamy, at the very least.
Suzanne
@NotMax: I don’t like fried food, so the recipes and tips that most of my friends have shared aren’t that appealing. They’re trying to make lighter versions of pizza, tacos, wings, etc. What I find intriguing about it is the speed aspect. On weeknights, it’s all about convenience.
ETA: I do like fries and wings, but really like twice a year at maximum.
Anyway
@Suzanne:
Not that particular model. I have an older AF and use it a lot — chicken wings (before the price of wings hit the stratosphere), stuffed peppers, jalapeno poppers, all kinds of of roasted veges, it does the best baked potato, Cornish hen, chicken quarters, burgers …I find it’s the perfect size cooking for one or two.
NotMax
@Suzanne
Yeah, fried foods have become widely spaced occurrences as the decades have rolled by. Again will stress YMMV; if I drag out the air fryer three times a year that would be a lot.
burnspbesq
For some years, Boxing Day has meant cricket. Currently watching England vs. Australia. England have dropped the first two matches of the series and looked dead and buried in the third match at the close of play yesterday, but today their bowlers have done a nice job of damage limitation.
Chetan Murthy
@Suzanne: I *do* wonder if you could trade it in for a straight-up convection toaster oven. Maybe you’d get a bigger model? B/c I hear those are pretty niiiiice.
HumboldtBlue
@Gin & Tonic:
Oh ho, ho, ho, the tree did not go up in our house until Dec. 24.
We were lucky to be able to toss a spare piece of tinsel on a small figurine, up until that day.
Now, Xmas began on Dec. 6, and it lasted until Twelfth night in January.
Christmas Eve was the night in our house, with Xmas day for grandmas and grandpas and the odd uncle, friend of a friend (we were eight strong, the friends we kids brought home were a whole carnival of humanity) and many of those traditions are alive.
I have one sister whose Xmas season involves Polish, Jewish and our family traditions sprinkled with dust and seasoning from Philly, New York and West Virginia.
Chetan Murthy
@Chetan Murthy: OTOH, maybe this will tickle some thoughts: https://blog.bestbuy.ca/appliances/small-appliances/cuisinart-airfryer-toaster-oven-review
I searched for “Cuisinart AirFryer Toaster Oven baking bread” and came up with a bunch of links.
Jay
@HumboldtBlue:
yeah, Dec 24 when I was a kid, was Xmas cards on the mantle.
Dec 25th was the full meal deal, tree, assembled gifts, and really pissed off parents when we woke at 6am, and they had had less than an hours sleep,
Plus the 6 retakes of coming down the stairs, all recorded on 16mm Kodachrome,
Jay
@Suzanne:
think of it as a small, efficient, convection oven,
that can also deal with grease and oil.
Alton Brown some russet potatoes. Basically, stick a fork in them all the way round to let out the steam. Rub olive oil and salt into the skin. Roast away. Skin is crispy, inside is fluffy, FLUFFY!!!! FLUFFY!!!!!
I do butter and a bit more salt, but you do you, bacon bits, chives, sour cream, cheddar, what ever.
HumboldtBlue
@Jay:
I’m in more than one of those
Jay
@HumboldtBlue:
those of a certain age, arn’t we all?
Cut, positions, retake, Dawn, show more emotion!!!!!!
and we were “too young” for coffee, “stunts your growth, doncha know!”
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: I think you may mean Good Omens, which I started but did not get interested in . I’m just excited to see The Luggage ?
NotMax
@MagdaInBlack
Nope, I meant exactly what was said.
Looked up the title of the stinker mentioned which came out in January of ’21: The Watch.
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: Oh THAT one. Completely avoided it.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
We are currently on the lam, as our yard and roof are full of equipment and roofers.
Our current roofing job (part 2 of 2) was delayed for a couple of weeks when the last crew announced they weren’t going to do it because they were afraid of our roof.It hasn’t escaped my notice that the spanish-speaking crew that was afraid had no heavy equipment, but the company rented a cherry picker for the white guys who showed up today. I’m trying to convince myself that they would have anyway for whoever was working today if our roof is unusually tricky, but it’s a hard sell.
Does anybody remember Eldon from Murphy Brown, the painter who was eternally working on her apartment? It’s beginning to feel like that. At least they’re outside.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Jay:
We were allowed to get into the stockings when we got up. That kept us happy till the parents woke up. Meanwhile, my older brother would do a forensic analysis on the wrapped presents and correctly guess half of them.
When we got older and we started exchanging gifts for each other, I took great delight in deceptive wrapping to try to defeat his powers of deduction.
My parents would buy their trees on Dec. 24, mostly because the prices dropped a lot lower. We didn’t have a lot of money. Because we lived in a wintry place, that often meant we were shopping in either a blizzard, or in a cold snap with sellers who looked half-frostbitten.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Feathers: Yes and has been immortalized in the jolly old carol Good King Wenceslas as the “Feast of Stephen” when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even.