HAPPY THANKSGIVUKKAH! [Thanksgiving and Hanukkah don't coincide again until the year 81056 !]
How about Sweet Potato Latkes with Cranberry Applesauce? :-)
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I see Dean people!!
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Just popping by before I find my pillow for the night. I've spent the day cleaning and cooking and cleaning some more. All is ready except that I need to prepare the carrots for cooking. But everything else is ready to pop into the oven at 10am.
It rained here most of the day, but right on schedule at 4pm the snow began. We have at least 4 or 5 inches so far, and since all was wet when the snow started there is snow on every branch and twig. It is utterly silent outside, too. Gorgeous. I wish I could stay up all night and listen to it.
Have a beautiful Thanksgivvukah, whether you are eating a vegan stuffed squash, turkey and the fixings, or a really good pizza. The main thing is to be thankful…well, at least grateful (since only Thankful can be Thankful ~ LOL ;-) )
What are you most grateful for? I am grateful that all my kids made it safely to their respective locations and grateful that Root*Center*Son is here for a few days! :-)
Eleven AM here, the capon is in the oven, the dressing not in the bird is ready to pop into the oven later on, the sun is coming out, and the kitchen is cleaned up. Making some more coffee (my favorite Colombian alkaloid) and having a few home-made raisins on the side. Nice. It turned out that the capon is free-range, which I certainly don’t mind: North Iowa Produce [Click]. Although I remember my mother roasting capons on a rotisserie, I have never before prepared one myself. It looks like there will be plenty of drippings for basting and gravy; not like some commercial turkeys that are too lean. Miyoko got a nice pineapple from Costco; a bit of that will make a nice garnish, I think.
ReplyDeleteNaomi is not here this Thanksgiving, but it just wasn’t sensible. She needs to rest up after the deluge of pre-holiday work, and I work this weekend at the hospital. She will accumulate a bit more vacation and come down for an extended Christmas-New Year’s stay. All good.
Bill—that’s interesting about the decrease in dementia among the old, although one must be skeptical about inferring a cause and effect from the correlation with increasing education—there are so many other things that have changed that multiple correlations must exist. Improved nutrition and decreased infection with serious diseases, for instance. Decreases in environmental exposure to lead, mercury and arsenic might be a little too recent, although they were definitely underway by the 1920’s. But no matter what the explanation(s), the effect is indisputably good.
On another note, I found a very interesting article about Socialism, with an extensive discussion of the multiple meanings of the term and their evolution over time in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica online at Wikisource [Click]. Of course the quality of the composition is vey high. If my memory serves me well, the article on dragons in the tenth edition is quite famous, and I should think the eleventh and twelfth editions are likely to be much the same.
Time to turn the bird…looking good, but too early for drippings and consequent start of basting.
A happy, relaxing day to all!
—Alan
It really is an interesting NEJM paper, though.... my attention is particularly drawn to the correlation with decreased vascular disease. I am reminded of that group of retired nuns (in Minnesota?) who participate in a longitudinal dementia study, and in particular one who seemed to have no symptoms of dementia despite autopsy findings of severe Altzheimer disease--but zero evidence of even minor strokes. Certainly blood pressure is aggressively treated nowadays. And the article points to possibly disproportionate effects of disease control later in life, which would make more sense of the results for people born before the Spanish Flu pandemic.
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--Alan
Not so sure about people born before the Spanish flu. They would be at least 95. Not too many people make it that far, although there are some. Do remember that I[m less that three years short of entering that old-old category.
DeleteYes, vascular health is important. My mother had dementia in her later years, and it was pretty clearly due to a series of small, otherwise unrecognizable strokes. But my cholesterol is excellent and my blood pressure is very well controlled by medication (systolic around 125 mm Hg).
Oops-- a little miscalculation there--I was thinking back eighty-some years from the year 2000. Time to move on in to the twenty-first century, I suppose... but maybe there's no need to rush. [grin]
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A thought-provoking item on climate action:
ReplyDeleteDrink local? The Climate Change Act in the Lake District [Click]
Oh, and thanks for the pat on the back re weight loss, Cat. I am thinking my body may simply need a time-out from my weight reduction regime and I have lately been unconsciously heeding that need. The lesson I am drawing from it is that once my weight gets down to where I want it to be, it can be stabilized with little effort.
Roasting of the festive bird progresses. Interestingly, our current cat acts totally unconcerned; one of our previous cats could hardly bear to wait; he was restless, pacing and meowing all day whenever we roasted a turkey.
—Alan
I concur with Cat that you've done remarkably well with weight loss, Alan. I usually do fine. This past month I have been gaining for no obvious reason. It may just be that I'm getting older. But I'm going to watch my "sugars" intake carefully and see if there's a correlation; maybe I'm edging closer to being diabetic.
DeleteAn innovative use of the Internet for business purposes—might similar approaches have other uses?
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THE AMAZON WHISPERER
ON THE TRAIL OF A MYSTERIOUS ONLINE COMPANY THAT HAS CRACKED THE SECRET TO MAKING PRODUCTS PEOPLE WANT. [Click]
I'm grateful that the whole family is alive and reasonably well. Even signs of advancing old age are reason to be grateful when you consider the Woody Allen quip, "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative."
ReplyDeleteWe lost Angel so recently and there is a lot of ill health in this household. There always seem to be plenty of things to grumble about even without such troubles. Still, I am grateful for my own fairly good health, that I have a safe, comfortable home with people who love me, and that I live in a relatively safe place.
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DeleteA safe place, comfort and love are pretty great things to be thankful for…*especially* in a time of difficulty.
I just found an excellent new artists' tool--a cross between a mahlstick and an artist's bridge, to steady and rest the hand while painting: the Mahlbridge [Click]
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What a wonderful Thanksgiving we had! All our peeps arrived safely at their various destinations. At our house we had two Sons a D-I-L and a Grand! The sun was shining on new fallen snow, the food came out great, and we then enjoyed games and a puzzle. Then dessert! All's right with our little corner of the world. We send sweet Thanksgiving blessings from our feast to yours. ♥
ReplyDeleteIt's 11:30 and the Thanksgiving pizza has finally arrived. But hey! It's still Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, Bill~!! I'm glad you got your pizza at last! Friends of ours had their parents come to visit from out of state one Thanksgiving and were too inexperienced to realise they would need reservations. They ended up with Chinese food eaten in the hotel room! That freed them from ALWAYS having the same sort of meal and they do it lots of different ways now, year to year.
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