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I am so thankful for this blog community! ♥
{LATE ADDITION: Note that I have added a photo of Susan's Turkey-not! :-) }
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Howard IS first!
ReplyDeleteAnd I so agree with listener about gratitude for this community, which enriches my life so greatly, daily.
Happy Thanksgiving to all. I'm thankful that I don't have to do the whole dinner.
ReplyDeleteThis is the *absolute* best method for cooking a turkey.
ReplyDeleteI've used it since 2003 (the year I got online).
That first year, I was *stunned* at how astonishingly delicious this turkey is. I've always *hated* white meat because it's so dry and tasteless. With this method it is, instead, soft, sweet, and juicy.
I know it's too late for today's turkey, grin, but save the link, print it out, and try it on your Christmas turkey. And then you'll start making turkey more often because it *tastes* so good.
http://www.howtocookathanksgivingturkey.com/
Guess what? That site says "Service Temporarily Unavailable." Meaning it doesn't have the capacity to handle everybody who's trying to access it today.
ReplyDeleteWe don't do turkey, if only because even the smallest turkey is too big for the three of us. It's usually king crab legs, but Penny didn't want them this year. In fact, she says she doesn't know what we're going to have. Right at the moment she has taken off for a fruit stand a bus ride away, because we're out of fruit and she has to have fruit every day. (I probably should too but rarely remember it's in the refrigerator.)
Ya. They always crash Thanksgiving day, lol! I always get the biggest turkey I can afford, since I lurv leftovers. They freeze well, too. And the breast meat from turkeys cooked this way is so juicy, makes *wonderful* turkey salad and sammiches.
ReplyDeleteGrin! I don't have to do any at all! Kid's bringing leftovers tomorrow, and I did my turkey on Sunday, and have been munching since. The breast is in the freezer for later.
ReplyDeleteI made a meatloaf in the shape of a turkey, wings, drumsticks and "foot frills" and all. Since I *still* haven't learned out to post pix I'll see if I can get my IT son to email me the phone pix he took and forward it to listener. Might take a while, a long while.
ReplyDeleteAh! Sounds cute!
ReplyDeleteHi guys!
ReplyDeleteI hope everyone had a peaceful and bounteous Thanksgiving Day!
Me too. Please don't think that my not being around so much lately means I've stopped caring or appreciating, 'cause it doesn't!
ReplyDeleteSusan, that sounds absolutely perfect!
ReplyDeleteSusan. please check your email. :-)
ReplyDeleteToday's front page photo is in honour of puddle, who is developing the most tasty and nutritious liquid diet on the planet!
ReplyDeleteH A P P Y ♥ T H A N K S G I V I N G !!!
ReplyDeleteTurns out that a meal cooked by 12 different family chefs can work and taste great! Amazing!
Who knew? :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, lol! I was actually surprised to discover how man different "conditions" can lead to the need for such a diet. Also, how many "cookbooks" already deal with the issue. Though dietitians and doctors are way back on the list of people who have a klew.
ReplyDeleteJaw surgery, mouth, tongue, throat and esophageal cancer, ALS, scleroderma, GERD, TMJ, Parkinson's, Alzheimers. . . . whodathunkit?
And in a galley kitchen!!
ReplyDeleteBest part was that Grammie got to play with the Granddaughters instead of slaving away in the kitchen! Awesome!! :-D
Okay, I just went ahead and did it. Hope that's okay.
ReplyDeleteEVERYBODY! Go out front and look at Susan's creation!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
ReplyDeleteI keep thinking about something that I realized while I was in the hospital, but it never seems to be on my mind when I'm near a computer.
Here it is. You know how one often hears that it is the "feisty" elderly--say, in a nursing home setting--that are likely to outlive the "nice" ones? I mean, sure, it's a stereotype, but probably one with a grain of truth to it, and while I was in the hospital, I had a new insight into it.
That first night in ICU, once Demetrius had gone home, there I was, hooked up to all sort of monitors, not allowed anything to drink, and I had this FREAKING TUBE UP MY NOSE AND DOWN MY THROAT. I had tried once to have it removed while Demetrius was still at the hospital, but the nurse had scared me into backing off by saying they would have to put it back in again, and "DO YOU WANT THAT??"
Well, no, I bloody well didn't. Although the jury was still out on whether they had ever gotten it IN the right way in the first place--they kept having to adjust it.
But as the hours passed and I was watching each one of them creep slowly along on the clock in front of me, I decided that this could not stand. At some point I had heard someone reply that the tube was standard procedure for the "nothing by mouth" patients. Okay, then--so they COULD take it out, but that's not now they generally do things.
I decided I was not going to endure hours of misery for no good reason simply because it was "standard operating procedure". I said I needed the tube taken out. The nurse said the GI team would probably take the tube out when they came, because they would want to do a "scope". I didn't fully grasp what this meant at the time, but I now know that the "scope" involved putting a tube down my throat to check for the source of bleeding, and the GI team wasn't going to make it to my room to do this until almost noon.
So, had I been a nice, compliant patient, I would have had that freaking tube making me miserable all night and morning, only having it removed right before having a *different* tube put down my throat.
But that's not how it went down. I had to make a royal pain in the ass of myself, and keep insisting that the doctors who were saying "no" on the phone to the nurse come to my room and explain to ME why my request was being refused. But in the end, I DID get them to remove the tube some time between 2 and 3 in the morning. (I *still* couldn't sleep, but those hours were much less sucky without a tube in my throat.)
Doesn't surprise me that doctors and dieticians are clueless.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that list makes sense, now I look at it. ALS. That one's interesting.
Sounds like everyone had a good holiday. We ended up with a boneless lamb roast, with chutney, couscous, and English peas. I wish I could have had more chutney, but Penny tells me that this is one of the things that's fairly salty without tasting salty. I was happy that I got lamb without a trace of fat on it. For dessert I had store-boughten cranberry-orange loaf -- Penny didn't wayt dessert.
ReplyDeleteThat's definitely the best part.
ReplyDeleteAnd Penny tells me we will have lmab curry from the leftovers. Turkey curry wouldn't be bad, but I think lmab curry is better.
ReplyDeleteBravo, Renee! I never would have had the gumption to stand up for myself like that.
ReplyDeleteOur entire dinner was store boughten, but we've had this same setup for several years because the food is excellent and the stress level for the person on KP is greatly reduced.
ReplyDeleteWOW, that *is* a long list!
ReplyDeleteA dietician is different than a nutritionist, right?
Your cookbook is going to be sooo welcome!!!
Nice going!!
ReplyDeleteAnd I tell everyone I can that any time you're in a hospital ask to speak with their chaplain. A hospital chaplain can often intercede and help get things done...from getting the annoying music or TV turned off for you to showing up during rounds to witness what your doctor is saying to you and reporting anything that's not good bedside manner. I imagine the chaplain would have encouraged you to persist with your doctor. So if you're not the feisty type, but need to take action, call in your chaplain support person! And don't be shy about asking that chaplain what their religious views are (and kicking them out if their view doesn't suit you), and telling what your views are.
Here's to you, Renee! *clink!*
My parents did that in their latter years and I think it would be a nice change if things shift back to all mine to do. ;-)
ReplyDeleteNot quite so overdosed on food as normal for Thanksgiving, but all cleaned up and relaxing now. I got the turkey into the oven, then went to work to finish up some stuff that otherwise would be hanging over until Tuesday--felt great to get it taken care of. Naomi turned the turkey a couple of times during my absence. It was a bigger turkey than usual so to hurry it up a bit I raised the temperature to 335 degrees. It was very slightly less moist then usual, but perfectly OK. I have never had anything but moist turkey roasting it at 325 degrees with an aluminum foil tent. (Our oven is electric with a fan, and seems perhaps a bit less forceful (cooler?) than a gas oven. (It can't make popovers.) Now to see the latest/last Harry Potter movie by way of relaxation; tomorrow afternoon Naomi and I will see the new Muppets movie. Thinking of alternatives to turkey, Bill, your lamb and lamb curry does sound good. I recall that for several years my Mom got a capon (special order from the butcher), which was good eating and smaller than a turkey. TTFN
ReplyDeleteAnother currently unusual type of meat we could get for a while was ["young"] mutton. Mutton has a poor reputation, but it was really quite good, and economical compared to lamb.
ReplyDeleteThree of our five Kids and all three Grands were feeling sick in various ways today ... from new colds to lingering stomach issues. It will be interesting to see if we come through these several days unscathed or totally flattened.
ReplyDeleteOne of the Kids and two of the Grands are still here. The other Grand comes back for awhile tomorrow.
So, stay tuned. Heh.