1 A Happy Thanksgiving to all, from the Centered Central Time Zone!

2 And a Happy Thanksgiving to all.

3
How did they get the cat to smile?

4 Catnip?

5
I noticed on rdbrewer's mini-blog ------>
that Congressman Ellmers doesn't forget who helped her win, unlike Scott Brown.

It's nice to know we have a few members of Congress not beholden to the lobbyists, but to the people.

6

Enjoy the holiday, everyone.

Surround yourselves with food and love.

7 Freakin' awesome photo.  My cat would take out my eye if I tried something like that.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

8 Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! That photo is truly disturbing.

9 Happy Thanksgiving, morons! Mini-turkey and standing rib roast(with yorkshire pudding, yum!) this year. Aiming for a Cowboy's pre-game lift-off. Two quick pre-Christmans questions: 1) Anyone buy the Xbox 360 with Kinect? Likes/dislikes? Is Dance Central the only decent game? Thoughts on 4gb Xbox? 2) Nook vs Kindle? I know there have been threads but most people hadn't owned N or K that long. Now that you've had it for a while.....happy/ unhappy? Mrs naturafake is very anti-clutter. So, pretty sure this will be my Christmas gift to reign in my ginormous book collection. Color Kindle coming soon? Like in1-3 months? I'll be in and out. Thanks for any opinions. Time to stir the hobo au gratin.....

10 Happy Thanksgiving to all and take care if you're traveling. Snow and freezing rain here in Philly! Give yourself extra time and enjoy.

11 Daughter just announced the dog show comes on in 9 minutes. My money is on the poodle, cute little #*@*en poodle.

12 Happy Thanksgiving to everyone

I'm very grateful for the AoSHQ crew and making me feel welcome these past 1.5 years

13 Happy Thanksgiving to all!

14 LOL, I just sent that pic to some family.

15
will the Kindle save the print media?

these dinosaur publications can survive if a) their content was online and real-time, and b) millions of people carried a Kindle -- perhaps a 'pocket edition' will be available soon.

16 Happy Thanksgiving to the Moron Nation. Hope all of you have a Great day.

17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ
This is what I want for dinner today.

18 Happy Thanksgiving all /salute

19 Haha this cat! Happy Thanksgiving, people. I'm thankful for my family, but not thankful that my sisters are obnoxiously loud and won't ever shut up and make me want to hang myself. I can't wait for dinner.

20

2) Nook vs Kindle? I know there have been threads but most people hadn't owned N or K that long.

I have a Kindle, but don't have much to say about comparisons. Love it, no complaints about it. Many complaints about authors who price the Kindle version over the paperback version.

Love the 3G download a book while anywhere feature.

 

 

21

happy t day!

people have said that reagan was down 25 in a poll with carter in early 1980. Is it true? if possible a link? I'm young and was born after the 80's, so i dont know.

22

I have a Kindle, but don't have much to say about comparisons. Love it, no complaints about it. Many complaints about authors who price the Kindle version over the paperback version.

Love the 3G download a book while anywhere feature.

  Posted by: Mama AJ at November 25, 2010 12:00 PM

Buy my calendars on Kindle through my Amazon store, wingnut!

23

Despite being faaaar from Philly, we're listening to Pierre Robert on WMMR. He'll be playing the noon eastern playing of "Alice's Restaurant" any minute now. (if it was time, it wouldn't be Pierre)

24 17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ


lol. 


Was that on the Franciscanware "Apple" china pattern?  Brings back memories.  Mom had the "Desert Rose" pattern.


yeah, yeah, I'm talking china patterns.  Deal with it, morons!  ;-)

25 Happy Thanksgiving to all ...

Special Thanks to Pixy and the hamsters ...

Special, Special Thanks to the Head Ewok for having us ...

Special, Special, Special Thanks to all that keep the ONT going

and, Special, Special, Special, Special Thanks to John of Patmos

26

yeah, yeah, I'm talking china patterns.  Deal with it, morons!  ;-)

It's all about 'Streamline' by Salem.

27 What's so happy about Thank...hey, what are you doing with that ax?

28 yeah, yeah, I'm talking china patterns.  Deal with it, morons!  ;-)

Posted by: Y-not at November 25, 2010 12:05 PM (5HSsN)

We had the "Courier and Ives" pattern available from Win Dixie for a dollar a plate if you bought more than x amount of groceries.

I still have a complete set of those plates but the cups and saucers are all long gone now.

29 Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

30 ...and that cat needs shoes.  Shoes with Buckles.

31 @26
Slick.  I saw several versions, one set was orange (not great), but I like the shape of the cups.
Mine was discontinued (natch).  We managed to scoop up the servingware in a flurry. 

32
What is the point of this Chris Henry tribute? To drive safely?

33 We had the "Courier and Ives" pattern available from Win Dixie for a dollar a plate if you bought more than x amount of groceries

Yeah, that was a cool thing.  Was that one the one with the brown pattern?  My grandmother had a set of blue and whites that I think might have had the same kind of origin. 

34
oh, transplant donors

35 @32
I dunno.  Wasn't it a domestic violence thing? 

These athletes have the world at the feet, they screw up anyway, and then the media idolizes them. 

36

^{Posted by: Y-not at November 25, 2010 12:17 PM (5HSsN)}

They also made it in bone w/ Silver accents.  Only e ver seen one set of those.

Mine are orange.

 

37 Give us your orgaaaaannns! 

38
he died in a car crash then his mom decided to donate his organs

nice story, but I've always been conflicted about giving/receiving organs.

I ain't giving mine away, that's for sure.

39 @36

I am such a friggin' loser dissin' the orange ones. 

40
It'd be nice if more of these moms of football players shared the same last name as their sons.

But this is the fruit of social progressivism...

41 @38
Mr Y-not is agin it, but I went ahead and checked the box for myself. I guess that's not great for him if I go first. 
I may uncheck the box now that the gubmint is messing with my healthcare. 

42 happy thanksgiving everyone. I'm off to take a shower and go to thanksgiving dinner

43 Howagooa.  (Have a good one in injun.)

44 Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Enjoy the day, enjoy the thought, enjoy the true spirit.

_{Enjoy that weird red cranberry jelly stuff hat looks like a can.}

45 If your governor Casey you go straight to the head of the organ recipient line.

46 Or David Crosby. He goes through a liver a year.

47 To all a heartfelt wish that all your gravies are not lumpy.

48 What? No thread on Delay's conviction on money laundering? Surely this is relative news to what's happening to our government?

49

^{I am such a friggin' loser dissin' the orange ones.} 

Not at all.  They aren't for everyone. 

But they are about the coolest Deco set I have ever seen. 

50 48 What? No thread on Delay's conviction on money laundering?

It was yesterday. 

51 1) Anyone buy the Xbox 360 with Kinect? Likes/dislikes?

My son works at Toys R Us, and he says that managers are discreetly telling employees to steer people away from Kinect because of the problems it causes with xBox.

52 @49
Well it's weird I dissed them because I love the shape of the cups and I usually go for orange. Must be in a weird mood today.
Do you have art deco silver?  (Did they make deco silver?)

53

 

Happy Thanksgiving. 

54 I'm thankful that one day the Earth will be destroyed and humanity will become extinct.  Now, I will eat yams.

55 How did they get the cat to smile?

Posted by: Soothsayer's A Very AoS Christmas at November 25, 2010 11:40 AM (WmBF6)

We stuffed it.  Duh.

56 Oh, and I wished you all a Happy Thanksgiving in the football thread, but same goes for here, too.

Lurve you guys.

57 yeah, yeah, I'm talking china patterns.  Deal with it, morons!  ;-)
Posted by: Y-not at November 25, 2010 12:05 PM (5HSsN)

Hey What's wrong with the plates we stole from Denny's?

58

Lurve you guys.

If you loved me, you'd never wear me again!

59

If you loved me, you'd never wear me again!

Posted by: Editor's Bike Shorts at November 25, 2010 12:42 PM (0TyD+)

Like my balls.

60 Hate Speech via PhotoShop.  Ain't no Cat gonna smile that close to a DOG.  Bastages...

61 40
It'd be nice if more of these moms of football players shared the same last name as their sons.

But this is the fruit of social progressivism...

Posted by: Soothsayer's A Very AoS Christmas at November 25, 2010 12:24 PM (WmBF6)

.............

Ronnie Brown of Miami has the same last name his mom has. Shes a friend of mine.

62 Valu-rite Turkey for the Morons!

63 wow - i cannot type, anymore.  Like = lick. 

64

Like my balls.

I'd have to ask Mrs. Editor about those.

65 Heh, kdb.  "Man arrested for driving while stuffed on turkey."

66 Douchebag politically correct Lefties agonize over their dietary choices

67 Woke up to more gottdamned snow. 

68 My grandmother had a set of blue and whites that I think might have had the same kind of origin. 

Posted by: Y-not at November 25, 2010 12:19 PM (5HSsN)

That's it. I was shocked to find that they are worth $16.00 a plate now.

http://tinyurl.com/35kfg44

69 Driving under the influence of turkey, DUIT.

70 might have been Wild Turkey...........

71

Woke up to more gottdamned snow.

Yep.

72 I wish I had two ovens. Whats the conversion for how long to cook something at 375 vs how long at 450?

73 It's stupid to watch Patriots/Lions. Back to cspan 3 and try to figure out when VDH's class at Hillsdale starts again

74 I'm giving Thanks today for the places on the internet I go where I can read what real Americans think and feel and I can fling my gleeful rhetorical bombs at dolts and dunces.

75 Whats the conversion for how long to cook something at 375 vs how long at 450?

Posted by: Zakn at November 25, 2010 12:57 PM (zyaZ1)

Shorter and drier. 

76

Turkey Day greetings from Annapolis, MD where I'm spending a few weeks with my sister and her family.

Turkey going in now, bottle seals have been broken, airing of grievances and feats of strength to commence shortly.

There's much to be thankful for!

77 Whats the conversion for how long to cook something at 375 vs how long at 450?

???? Not many things are cooked at 450° except pizza or something else thin. Usually you burn stuff when you try to speed it up cooking at 450 and it doesn't save much time anyway.

78 In case you didn't see it, Conan O'Brien brings on a TSA agent to show how to properly stuff a turkey

TSA Turkey Stuffing on Conan

79 72 I wish I had two ovens. Whats the conversion for how long to cook something at 375 vs how long at 450?

--

Hmmm... I can't find a chart for that.  (Nor could I find a satisfactory high altitude cooking chart converter, which blows... but that's another story.)

If one of the things is a roast or something else persnickety, I would cook it as directed and then just go by feel for the other item (assuming it's a casserole or something easy like that).  For a casserole, you might find you want to cover (or uncover) depending on what the original directions called for. 

But I bet garrett has a smarter answer. 

80 I'm roasting the Turkey at 350

The Mac and cheese needs 45 min at 450

Green Been Casserole is like 30 min at 400

Fucking math and Thanksgiving...

81 Turkey at 375 sry

82

^{But I bet garrett has a smarter answer.} 

No.  You've got it right.  Adjust your less demanding dish to the temp of your more demanding dish...also keep in mind your carry over time + prep/plate time for the Bird/roast. 

 This usually allows for ample time to cook sides.

Good Luck.

 

83 82 I'm roasting the Turkey at 350

The Mac and cheese needs 45 min at 450

Green Been Casserole is like 30 min at 400

--

OK, In that case I would cook the turkey first and then, when it's resting before carving, cook the other two.  The other two are just casseroles anyway so it's not like the cooking matters much.  So I'd do the Mac n' Cheese (man, 450 seems high to me) and put the green bean casserole in part-way through the cook time. 

It may seem like resting the bird for 30-45 minutes is too long, but it really isn't.  Mine held temperature for 40 mins yesterday (the thermo was left in while it rested). 

My rule of thumb is that the expensive meat dish gets its way in the oven.  Everyone else has to adjust to that.  You don't want to dry out your bird.

84 Valu-rite Turkey for the Morons!

Posted by: kbdabear at November 25, 2010 12:47 PM (vdfwz)

Oh HELL yeah!

85

Mac and cheese will be fine at 375 for the first 15-20 minutes. 

The green beans will also cook fine at the higher temp for 5 min. less.

Throw the mac and cheese in with the bird for the last 15-20 minutes, then amp the heat up as soon as you remove the bird.  It'll take 20-25 minutes for the bird to even be close to carving temp.

This will also give you time to prep and make a gravy.

 

86 @84

Vindication from garrett!  score!  ;-) 


garrett, can you point me to a good guide on high altitude baking?  I've had only partial success making some of my standards (pumpkin bread stayed risen but was too sweet, cran-orange bread tasted fine but fell a bit).  I'm at 4600 feet and it seems to be high enough to be affecting things.

87 What? No thread on Delay's conviction on money laundering?

It was yesterday. 

Posted by: Y-not at November 25, 2010 12:34 PM (5HSsN)

A pox upon Delay.  He was the architect of trying to institute a permanent Republican majority through pork and earmarks.   Screw him.

88 Happy Thanksgiving to all of the Morons, Moronettes, Ewoks and other unclassified life forms here at AoS.

89 The Mac and cheese needs 45 min at 450

Posted by: Zakn at November 25, 2010 01:09 PM (zyaZ1)

Mac and cheese on Thanksgiving?  Gotta go yams.

90 Thanks Moron Nation!

Such a helpful community

91 I did yams last year. The Mac and cheese is a family tradition

92 @89

That was quite a mug shot.  He looks teh ghey, NTTAWWT. 

93 How many people are putting up trees/decorations today? 

94 he Mac and cheese needs 45 min at 450

Have you done the mac and cheese by itself like that before?

My Betty Crocker only calls for 375 for 20 min.

95 Conan O'Brien brings on a TSA agent to show how to properly stuff a turkey

TSA Turkey Stuffing on Conan


This is lol funny. 

Mr Y-not thinks they missed one obvious gag, though.  The guy should have made the turkey empty his "pockets" into the plastic dish... putting the bagged giblets and whatnot into the dish before proceeding.

I also think blue gloves would've made a great visual. 

96 Turkey Day must: infamous "WKRP In Cincinnati" turkey drop scene. Perhaps the funniest holiday related moment ever televised:

http://tinyurl.com/yzlajmy

97

 I'm at 4600 feet and it seems to be high enough to be affecting things.

Baking is definitely not my area of expertise.  I havve a friend who is a pro here in town...I'll ask him if he knows of a good book/guide.

Honestly,  without the (ex) wife and her friends around, I have no reason to bake much, anymore.  Baking is done to loosen the panties....besides -  Bakeries have cute chicks working in them.  No reason for me to want to avoid going there!

98 15
will the Kindle save the print media?

these dinosaur publications can survive if a) their content was online and real-time, and b) millions of people carried a Kindle -- perhaps a 'pocket edition' will be available soon.

Posted by: Soothsayer's A Very AoS Christmas at November 25, 2010 11:56 AM (WmBF6)

You can download a free reader for most smart phones, so the smart phone is today's 'pocket edition' eBook.

BTW, Happy Thanksgiving fellow morons and moronettes!

99 Y-not

This may help with that some. It seems it is more complicated than just varying the baking times which is what I would have thought (based on boiling point of water)

http://tinyurl.com/2u4bjzf

I would recommend you find a high altitude cook book and talk it over with some of the locals.

100

The Mac and Cheese recipes that I have seen that use eggs for body call for higher heats.  400+. 

It works out fine...

101

Turkey going in now, bottle seals have been broken, airing of grievances and feats of strength to commence shortly.

There's much to be thankful for!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2010 01:00 PM (L3Wmw)

I hope you're on the left coast or like a late meal.

102 @99

If you learn anything, pass it along.  I'm not a big baker (I'm too impatient to measure), but I do like to make holiday breads. 


The locals here are so darned local that they have no idea what they are doing differently than flat landers. 

103 Happy thanksgiving to the Moron Horde

SUMMON THE TURDUCKENS!

104 101 Y-not

This may help with that some. It seems it is more complicated than just varying the baking times

Thanks.

Yeah, from what I've read it is complicated.  You vary times, temp, liquid content, "rising" ingredients, and - interestingly - sugar.  Science!  But it seems to be trial and error. 

105 well ya'll......... i'm off to meet little RF at his wifes parents house for dinner. retired libs... been slamming beers for an hour and a half toget ready for them.......... wish me luck.

106

While visiting, I read a Letter to the Editor this week in the local paper that was an "I'm better than you" self-superiority diatribe on the health and humanitarion wonders of eating a tofu turkey.

Sanctimonious comrade from the Peoples Democratic Republic of Maryland reminded me of the Everybody Loves Raymond clip where Marie served such a vile concoction to her menfolk.

23 lbs of butterball goodness are roasting away at this very moment to be rapaciously devoured this evening.

Happy Eating to all morons and moronettes and your loved ones!

107

^{The locals here are so darned local that they have no idea what they are doing differently than flat landers.} 

They never seem to be really interested into the "Why" - of it sticking to the wall. 

They are just happy it sticks.

108 here is another site

http://tinyurl.com/3al5sck

109 Yes the Mac and Cheese uses eggs and lots of milk. the High temp helps get a nice crisp top to it, which is the best part

110 Good luck, RF.  None of us will have time to bail you out, so don't do anything we'd all normally do.

111 Oscar Meyer Southwestern Chicken Breast
Country Crock Mac and Cheese
Corn Chips
Apple Sauce
Green Beans
Hornsby Hard Cider
Frozen Yogurt

Thanksgiving of champions, baby!

112

A pox upon Delay.  He was the architect of trying to institute a permanent Republican majority through pork and earmarks.   Screw him.

Posted by: Ombudsman at November 25, 2010 01:16 PM (c1oyg)

No need to throw him in prison for legal acts, though. From JustOneMinute:

He will appeal, not without reason:

Mr. DeLay was initially charged with breaking campaign finance law. But prosecutors later switched strategies because it was impossible under the law at the time to accuse someone of conspiring to break campaign finance rules, prosecutors said.

Instead, prosecutors used a novel legal theory never before tried in Texas: They argued that Mr. DeLay and two of his political operatives — John Colyandro and Jim Ellis — had violated the criminal money-laundering law.

They were charged with conspiring to funnel $190,000 in corporate donations to state candidates through the Republican National Committee.

...Mr. DeGuerin said Mr. DeLay would try to convince an appeals court that the money-laundering statute should never had been applied to the money swap — because the original donations were legal and also because the donations to the state candidates came out of a different account than the one in which the corporate donations were deposited

113

.......... wish me luck.

Take No Prisoners, Racefan!

 

114 I think it's time for a mimosa.

115 I hope you're on the left coast or like a late meal.

Posted by: Ed Anger at November 25, 2010 01:31 PM (7+pP9)

We're having a late meal, last stop for my college-aged niece and nephew and some of their friends.

116

unclassified life forms

Sniff. It's so nice to feel included.

 

Google "elf yourself" for some fun. No, it's nothing nasty. Sorry.

117

While visiting, I read a Letter to the Editor this week in the local paper that was an "I'm better than you" self-superiority diatribe on the health and humanitarion wonders of eating a tofu turkey.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2010 01:36 PM (L3Wmw)

Vegetarianism isn't natural.   The vegetarians and vegans I know either have chronic deficiencies or take all sorts of protein and other supplements.   Sure, most of us eat too much meat, but we need to eat some meat.

118 Give'em hell RF.

119

^{Yes the Mac and Cheese uses eggs and lots of milk. the High temp helps get a nice crisp top to it, which is the best part}

Sounds about right.  Have to make some Mac and Cheese, soon.  If you start that early at a lower temp, loosen or puncture the foil to let a little moisture escape and you should be fine for a quick finish at higher temps.

 I am currently ]rendering the Pancetta to sear my Venison Roast in...smells too good.

120 Sure, most of us eat too much meat...

Posted by: Ombudsman at November 25, 2010 01:41 PM (c1oyg)

Does. Not. Compute.  Input error.

121

the High temp helps get a nice crisp top to it, which is the best part

I use bread crumbs for the topping. But my recipe doesn't have eggs, so can't help with the temp. issue...

122

I think it's time for a mimosa.

...and I worry that I sometimes sound gay.

_{notthatthere'sanythingwrongwiththat!}

123 Well, folks its off to MIL's house I go.

Happy Thanksgiving and Y-not, good luck with that high altitude cooking. If I can ever talk my wife into moving out to Wyoming I'll have to get tips from you.

Later

124 Another good topping for it is crushed goldfish.

125 WTF?  Nothing gay about mimosa.  It's perfect for breakfast.  Shit.

126

Sure, most of us eat too much meat...

This is a typo, no?

127 House starting to smell Thanksgivingy.... Like drunk Uncles, Valurite and sweaty feet Naw, strating to smell goooooooooooooood! @51 Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at November 25, 2010 12:34 PM (YPivX) what probs with Kinect? MamaAJ - thnx for the update. Any NOOKies....Nookers, uh, Nookites care to comment?

128 Happy thanksgiving to the Moron Horde

SUMMON THE TURDUCKENS!

Posted by: Unclefacts, Confuse A Cat, Ltd. at November 25, 2010 01:32 PM (eCAn3)

Turducken is so 2008.  Behold the TurBaconEpic - quail in a cornish hen in a chicken in a duck in a turkey in a pig, with 10 packages of bacon.

129 Your Mojito is ready, Mr. Editor

130 Mr Incredible drinks mimosas. So don't worry.

Wish they still had the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon on.

131 124

I think it's time for a mimosa.

...and I worry that I sometimes sound gay.

_{notthatthere'sanythingwrongwiththat!}

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2010 01:46 PM (0TyD+)

He's on the West Coast, any drink that is used as an excuse to drink alcohol before noon is perfectly acceptable and not gay

132

^{It's perfect for breakfast.  Shit.}

Oatmeal + Bourbon = Breakfast

133 Couldn't convince my wife to put bacon in the stuffing. But my turn to cook is next year, so I will have my revenge.

134 You know what sucks the most?  When he refuses to stop the ride and just pees in me.  Gawd!  The stench of Zima is just too much to bear.

135

Wish they still had the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon on.

I have my own going.  Eegah, Mitchell, Manos... all on the menu. 

Only thing that keeps me from getting depressed on T-Day is MST3K.

136

^{Gawd!  The stench of Zima is just too much to bear.}

This is funneh.

137 Rush Limbaugh's The Real Story of Thanksgiving.

138

Turducken is so 2008.  Behold the TurBaconEpic - quail in a cornish hen in a chicken in a duck in a turkey in a pig, with 10 packages of bacon.

Posted by: steveegg at November 25, 2010 01:48 PM (51MkX)

YOU SHUT IT

139 Ok, off to make gravy!  Have a great dinner. 

140 I'll be starting the Zombie Film Festival here any time now.

141 Woman Makes It Through TSA Checkpoint Wearing Only a Bikini

142 Besides getting shot, why is Kennedy such a BFD. Sure he allowed Gov Workers to unionize....

143  Y-not and any other moron/ettes who might be interested, I just uploaded to the "Files" section of the AceOfSpadesHQ Yahoo group some high altitude baking tips that were printed in our local paper a few years ago. We've successfully used them here at about 7,600 feet above sea level. YMMV.

144 do guys drink mimosa's? i thought that was for chicks only

145 Kennedy was center-right on many issues, anti-communist, and had great personal charm.  There were quite a few Democrats like him back before the Lefties hijacked the Party. 

146 Vegetarianism isn't natural.   The vegetarians and vegans I know either have chronic deficiencies or take all sorts of protein and other supplements.   Sure, most of us eat too much meat, but we need to eat some meat.

I was under the impression that some foodstuffs, such as bread, are fortified with animal proteins.

147 72 I wish I had two ovens. Whats the conversion for how long to cook something at 375 vs how long at 450?

If the recipe calls for cooking something at 300 degrees for 1 hour, wouldn't it be okay then to cook it at 600 degrees for 1/2 hour?  (j/k)

148 147 do guys drink mimosa's? i thought that was for chicks only

Posted by: phoenixgirl at November 25, 2010 02:05 PM (eOXTH)

When you are in Vegas and the Sunday Brunch Buffet options are Champagne or Mimosas you drink a Mimosa

149 The bikini girl is cute.  Drudge had a link to an interview, where she gives a full body shot for the cameraman.

150 Holy shit, detroit is in this

151

When I was a kid, my Mom would put out quite a spread for Thanksgiving Dinner. With 7 children and visits from our Grandparents, she had a lot to do. Typically, sheÂ’d start about three days out; making the pies, decorations, homemade stuffing, and other food that didnÂ’t have to be cooked until the Big Day. 

We had a huge dining room table with a leaf extension. Every square inch of it was taken up by place settings, bowls and dishes full of sweet and mashed potatoes, casseroles, vegetables, cranberry sauce, garnish plates, stuffing, and gravy.  The turkeys, that usually weighed between 25-26 pounds each, were ceremoniously placed in the middle.

During my Army career, I spent most Thanksgivings out of the country away from my family, so it was comforting to go over to the mess hall and enjoy the day with fellow troops. In my units, the First Sergeants and Command Sergeant Majors often stood behind the serving line and dished up the turkey.

I always called home to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

Growing up, I mostly gave thanks for the great food and MomÂ’s cooking, but now I give thanks for Mom, and the privilege of having her in my life until she passed away in 2003.

To each of you, I extend Thanksgiving wishes with this advice:  Cherish the time you spend with your friends and loved ones on this day.  When they are gone, you can fill the day with wonderful memories.

While youÂ’re gathering with your family today and stuffing yourself with turkey, watching football, and having beer, donÂ’t forget about the troops overseas and in harmÂ’s way. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Many of us, myself included, have been there and we know what it means to spend the holidays away from family and home.

To my fellow Soldiers still deployed, Happy Thanksgiving; youÂ’re in my thoughts. IÂ’ve been there, too.
For my fellow Soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice, this day of thanks and remembrance is especially for them.

Duty, Honor, Country
SFC MAC

152 154 The bikini girl is cute.  Drudge had a link to an interview, where she gives a full body shot for the cameraman.

Posted by: Alex at November 25, 2010 02:16 PM (yY28H)

Of course its also been pointed out that many airports shut down their Pervert 2000 scanners and Sexual Assaults for Thanksgiving.  So I don't think she had anything to worry about yesterday.  A nice little attempt by the TSA I think.  After 2 weeks of controversy you'll now have all these reports of "no problems" when the most people traveled.  So when they start up their bullshit again they hope people will dismiss it as overreaction.

153 Happy Thanksgiving, SFC MAC and to all who serve. 

154

The ruling is :

 It is ok to drink a mimosa if (a)offered one, or (b)made for one's self and/or others, (c)ALL other available drinks seem gheyer,(d)there is no whiskey in plain view. 

It is never ok to order a mimosa for one's own self or for anyone but a woman.  Obvious exceptions include, but are not limited to; ordering for a table of people where the ratio is more than 1:1 female to male. Then the ordering of a "...round of mimosa(s)..." is acceptable.  

 Ordering within 15 feet of Pool and/or Brunch Buffet is also permitted.

155 The Mac and Cheese!

http://tinyurl.com/24ya6ue

156 Mimosas are ok in the parking lot before Ren Faire. Gets the bodices warmed up on teh faire girls.

157 Cheesieness!

158 Mashed taters and gravy are nearly as cool as Charles Bronson riding an armored bear.

159 Vegetarianism leaves me cold. Do vegans eat kitteh??

160
???? Not many things are cooked at 450° except pizza or something else thin. Usually you burn stuff when you try to speed it up cooking at 450 and it doesn't save much time anyway.

Posted by: Vic at November 25, 2010 01:01 PM (e4sSD)

I worked for/house sat for a couple that owned a late 19th century house and were freaks about making as much stuff  as period as possible. Part of that was a gas stove with a broken heat control. It was either off or around 450° F. The wife made great food of all kinds in it. Maybe she just had the touch.

If I bake a ham according to directions it always takes two hours more than recommended. And the thermostat is properly calibrated.

Prolly the best fish I ever had was cooked in an electric range that had one heat: 500° F . We put a pound of butter in a big cast iron skillet and threw in a big ass pickerel. No spices or anything. That was about 25 years ago and I've still not tasted anything better.

161 WASHINGTON — Barack Obama performed an annual rite of presidents on Wednesday, pardoning a pair of turkeys on Thanksgiving Eve.

Apple and Cider, two 21-week-old, 45-pound turkeys raised on a farm outside Modesto, Calif., were plucked from a group of 25 birds during a competition “that involved strutting their stuff before a panel of judges, with an eclectic mix of music playing in the background,” Obama said.




The two turkeys, former members of the Nation of Islam, were convicted in 1989 of killing an Illinois State Trooper.

162 Man, those synthetic turkeys really put you to sleep. I just woke up and remembered a Thanksgiving after visiting Capella IV. I definitely gave thanks once I got away from that sandtrap. ...One-dimensional thinking. It's just the way you get ahead in Starfleet. Now, does nearly getting your guts perforated by a frisbee with teeth sound like a good way to develop your career path? Ask one of my many late, lamented red shirts. There are several of them still decomposing on Capella IV, this bugfucking planet covered with scrub and space bedouins, which would be of no interest to anyone sane except for some mineral down there. A mineral which is so fucking important to Starfleet that we were supposed to "negotiate" a contract with these towelheads, which would be quite a feat since as far as I can tell they can't read and the closest thing they had to a written language was pissing doodles in the dirt. But, since dirt and all things filthy are dear to the hearts of Federation lawyers and bureaucrats, we had to beam down there and get the permission of the Capellan Lawrence of Asswipe to mine this mineral. Now, these Capellans must have had other visitors in the past because their clothing looks as if they made it out of carpet remnants from Abdul the Space-Traveling Rug Salesman. They live in tents that must have come from the prop department of a puppet theater. I didn't even see so much as a horse and if I did I would eat one if you could prove to me that they had ever so much as seen a wheel. Call me a wild-eyed dreamer, but Starfleet was going about this mining project all wrong. Think about it. There's an entire fucking planet here. Go find a place where there aren't any Capellans, which shouldn't be hard since they don't even live in freaking cities. Just go down, strip-mine the bugfuck out of the place, haul the ore and go. By the time those space woggies find out we've been there we'll be halfway across the galaxy filthy with loot. But that would be too fucknutting easy. No, we find a mineral-rich planet barely populated with some pup-tent dwelling savages in capes of shag carpet and no real weapons, and we have to go out of our way to let them know that we're digging up rocks and could we please have some? If I were in charge I would have just beamed down a couple barrels of Romulan ale and stood back. When their hangovers wore off we would have been long gone, with ore in the hold and no one the wiser. Apparently the Klingon General Staff isn't any brighter than our Federation numbnuts, because they were there too, making some deal that they would break anyway, and with those guys you can forget even a perfunctory reacharound. But our asshattery has barely begun. Starfleet ordered us to hand over our weapons to these dirt eaters while we "negotiate." And like men without nuts we do it. At least we kept our cell phones so we could call Scotty back on the Enterprise, and get updates on how he let the Klingon ship lead him by the kilt on an interplanetary snipe hunt. Never, ever let a sheepdipper command your vessel. It's lucky the Klingon ship didn't pretend it was a cargo tanker full of Highland Mist or that dimwit redshirt jock would have chased it across the Capellan solar system, leaning out an airlock with a straw and a shot glass. Well, we were stuck milling around with these sand hunkies wearing curtains, and every fucking thing from sneezing to asking "How are you?" seems to be some taboo that can only be resolved with a fight to the death. And there's barely a woman in sight except this one pregnant broad. Pregnant. And being pregnant gave her such morning sickness that she kept whining about committing suicide. Great. No wonder these cartoon nomads acted like they had a backup of testosterone so long that it must have conquered time travel. To top it off there's one of those Klingons in camp too, wearing a sequined tank top and a Caesar haircut, so I guess all Klingon negotiators are officially gay. God, this was so freaking boring. A bunch of stuff happened; we weren't prisoners, then we were, then we ran into the hills, the carpet arabs chased us, Bones groped the pregnant woman, blah blah blah. Eventually I just wanted to see someone other than another red shirt get dusted, so Spock and I used the MP3 players on our cell phones to make an avalanche and kill a mess of those savages. This seemed to get through to them, because when the Klingon goes apeshit too they gave him a taste of the frisbee with the built-in hole punch. Now they're ready to cut us a deal so we can get on with our lives. All for some fucking rocks. Memo to Starfleet: There are about ten to the power of eleventy asteroids out there, full of tasty minerals and utterly lacking space savages wearing throw rugs. You might want to survey some of those. Oh, the pregnant chick gave birth to a boy, and she named him after Bones. I guess when they send you to medical school they teach how to grope with a happy ending.

163 That was great, Orwell.

164

Well, the stuffing is in the toaster oven. We'll see how that goes...

165 HotAir linked to this high-cholesterol obnoxiousness.

166 Happy Thanksgiving brothers and sisters .

167 170 Well, the stuffing is in the toaster oven.

Running out of room, Mama AJ? 

I have fond memories of our newlywed days cooking almost every dinner in the toaster oven.  We had a teensy weensy kitchen, a small oven, and even smaller cooktop.  I used to get 5 meals off of one chicken.  Those were the days! 

168

 I am currently ]rendering the Pancetta to sear my Venison Roast in...smells too good.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2010 01:43 PM



Note to self: wrangle a dinner invite out of garrett next year.  (After all, we're practically "neighbors!") 

169 For gosh sakes, man, unbutton us!!!

170

^{Note to self: wrangle a dinner invite out of garrett next year.  (After all, we're practically "neighbors!")} 

I'm only 6 1/2 hours or so from SLC! 

...just dropped the taters and apples into the Dutch Oven...the house is smelling good. 

 

171 I'm in a tryptophan haze right now....and pie is still waiting.

Happy Thanksgiving y'all.

172 Did you kill the deer (elk?) yourself, garrett? 

173 Amazingly, CDR M's pants look a lot like socks! 

174

?

Yes, sir.  About 10 days ago...I really should be out hunting right now as Rifle Season closes in a few days and I still have a few Tags left.

Just don't feel that into it, though.  There's always late archery season.

175 Happy Thanksgiving, all.  I hope you're all having a great day and that MO would be very displeased with your delicious menus!

176 A friend of mine in eastern Washington bagged a rare blue pheasant. A big one, and apparently they are a very uncommon color mutation. But he's not eating it for turkey day, but having it mounted. Also, he's enjoying the terrifying global warming up there. It was five degrees below zero last night.

177

It was five degrees below zero last night.

That's Steelheading Weather, right there! 

It was -11 here in Western Montana last night.  It's a balmy 17.4 right now.  Still. fucking. snowing.

178 Yeah, my friend says he's never seen weather so cold like this in eastern WA in November. It's probably because Al Gore shut down his carbon exchange racket.

179 183 A friend of mine in eastern Washington bagged a rare blue pheasant. A big one, and apparently they are a very uncommon color mutation. But he's not eating it for turkey day, but having it mounted.

Too bad.  Pheasant is tasty, but I guess if it is a unique looking bird I could see wanting to display it.

I dabbled in taxidermy when I was young - never did a bird, though.  I'm trying to remember if there's any reason you can't save the meat.  My recollection is that you get the body out of the skin intact, so it seems like you could still use the meat.  But maybe I'm forgetting something. 

180 Geaux Saints!  Looking good early.

181 @188
I always tear up when he croaks.

182

I always wanted to see Montana.

It's still here!

183 I dabbled in taxidermy when I was young - never did a bird, though. I'm trying to remember if there's any reason you can't save the meat. /i> Asked him about that, he thought the chance of screwing up the skin and anatomy was too great. If you can get it out without too much damage you can eat the meat but he says it's a lot of work.

184 Great, I didn't close the italics tag. Now everyone will go Roman on me.

185

 i made some tasty pheasant on the tailgate of my pup when we were Deer hunting a week or so ago.  de-boned, tossed in dirty flour, seared, sliced and mixed with shallotts, garlic, mushrooms, and egg noodles.  tossed in some spinach and a tbsp of sour cream, and grated parm. 

Yum. 

we had shot a bunch of birds with a guy who said he hated the taste of pheasant.  I told him he was wrong and that I could prove it.

sometimes it pays to travel with the cookset.

186 we had shot a bunch of birds with a guy who said he hated the taste of pheasant. Fag. Sorry, couldn't resist. Your friend has a screw loose.

187

I know! Right?

Partridge and Grouse are by far better...but a good clean shot on a Pheasant means for some tasty vittles! 

 I like to smoke them.

188 Damn, all this talk of venison, pheasant and other animals makes me wish that I had learned to hunt as a kid. Oh well...

189 I've never gotten to eat pheasant here in the awful urban blight of Clownifornia, but I have had it many times in France. Delicious. One time I had a breast of wild pheasant there, and you could tell it was really wild... there was a piece of buckshot still in the meat.

190 you could tell it was really wild... there was a piece of buckshot still in the meat.

Ooh!  I knew I lost my earring somewhere!

191

In Appearance Weak and Persecuted They Came...Calvin Coolidge writes on the 300th anniversary of the Pilgrims (1920).  Silent Cal.  Heh.  Still waters run deep.  What a great piece of writing.

Happy Thanksgiving to the Moron Horde what hangs around the HQ.

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