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orfeo
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Only schedul complication is a fellow Tori Amos fan to meet, but I haven't organised any particular day or time with her yet.
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We'll be in the middle of trying to sell our house. Any proposed time will be equally unpredictable as to whether or not I can make it.
But I'm sure you'll manage to have a good time without me...
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Timothy the Obscure
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So orfeo, what part of town are you staying in? If you don't know Portland geography, just go by the street address: NW, SW, NE, SE, or N.
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It's a little bit east of the river. The street claims to be NE. I know I am close to your legendary public transport system, on a line that leads to the airport I believe.
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Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup! Two goals in 17 seconds! YAY!!! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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orfeo
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quote:
Originally posted by Mamacita:
Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup! Two goals in 17 seconds! YAY!!!
Really?
I guess I got out of Boston just in time!
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Timothy the Obscure
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OK, so you're going to be in the Irvington-Sullivan's Gulch-Hollywood area. There are plenty of good places to meet up around there. Last Portland meet was at the Moon and Sixpence. If you're a bit closer to the river, the Rose and Thistle might be more convenient. No real first-rate Portland brewpubs in the area, unfortunately.
Since you'll be here during the week, I expect it'll have to be an evening thing. I'll poll the PDX crew, or they can chime in here if they're reading the thread.
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Welease Woderwick
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I'm just reading a story that takes place somewhere on the East Coast of the USA and Thanksgiving is approaching and there is talk of deep fried turkey!
Isn't that a tad unhealthy? Do people really eat it? Is it as good as the characters say it is?
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Firenze
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Whole deep-fried turkey? That would take one hell of a chip pan.
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Take a look at how Alton Brown does it. With a "turkey derrick".
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They sell special Turkey Fryers.
Actually, deep-fat-frying can be a healthy way to prepare food. If the temperature is just right, the surface of the food is sealed as soon as it hits the oil. This prevents the oil from penetrating the food. My grandmother used to boast that after she had finished frying doughnuts, she had as much fat/oil as she did when she started.
Unfortunately, there are very few modern doughnut shops that do it right.
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Given that your Granny is no longer with us, I think I would run a mile in the opposite direction if faced with deep-fried turkey prepared today.
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
deep fried turkey!
Isn't that a tad unhealthy? Do people really eat it? Is it as good as the characters say it is?
It is wonderful!. When done properly it is no more greasy than a roast turkey, and can be much jucier, as good hot oil seals the juices in. They also cook a lot faster, IIRC an hour to an hour and a half.
We shall not speak of the (un-)healthiness crispy-crunchy-crackly skin, yum yum. Nothing to see there, move along, nothing to see here, leave us crispy-skin fans to our once- or twice-a-year treat.
A friend of mine hosts a big pre-Thanksgiving party, for which he typically fries 2-3 birds and roasts one. And I carve them. And carve and carve and carve. By the time I'm done carving/snacking I've had enough turkey, and its time for side dishes and dessert. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Now I'm all hungry for turkey...
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I'm of the bake my turkey camp, although I have eaten deep fried turkey and Mars bars, etc. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
You can have your duck and goose, I'm for a well baked turkey everytime. And then days and days of turkey leftovers. OH JOY!
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comet
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up here our "speciality" is smoking the whole turkey. devine.
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basso
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Here's an alarming video of an encounter with a yellow jacket nest taller than a person.
Warning: NSFM [not safe for Martians (or others squicked out by flying arthropods)]
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I'm just reading a story that takes place somewhere on the East Coast of the USA and Thanksgiving is approaching and there is talk of deep fried turkey!
Isn't that a tad unhealthy? Do people really eat it? Is it as good as the characters say it is?
Unhealthy as in unsafe.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EYkRF_FmD40
[coding adjusted for link]
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Timothy the Obscure
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I personally know someone who lost a garage that way.
Personally, I prefer my turkey brined and then barbecued very slowly over mesquite. That's if I have to eat it at all--I always argue for goose.
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Welease Woderwick
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Well, I think we all enjoy the occasional goose ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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There's certainly way too many turkeys and not enough goosing in my life.
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*ducks*
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by comet:
[QB] There's certainly way too many turkeys and not enough goosing in my life.
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
[QB] There's certainly way too many turkeys and not enough goosing in my life.
I think so, too! ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) Comet strikes again!
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
There's certainly way too many turkeys and not enough goosing in my life.
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*ducks*
Turkey, goose, duck. Anyone for swan? Can you eat swan in the US of A? We have weird laws reserving swan for royalty and Oxford dons.
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*serious face*
they're protected here, at least in Alaska. when I was a kid, swan sightings were rare, now they're pretty common. so it's working!
We also eat grouse and ptarmagin, here.
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Firenze
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
We also eat grouse and ptarmagin, here.
Grouse are certainly a game bird here. I was once waiting for a flight to Belfast when I fell into chat with a chap who, by reason of friendship with a keeper, had been allowed to take a capercaillie - which was now in his suitcase. The better to avoid detection, he'd given it a thorough under-wing blast of
Brut for Men.
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one of the beauties of Alaska Airlines (and our little regional air taxis and ferries) is that they know they will be asked to transport dead animals in varying states of dismantling, so they're ready. I have asked them to haul some strange stuff, but I've seen even stranger. my worst was sending a slightly decomposed lynx (size of a big dog) to a lab for a post-mortem. they didn't even blink.
love the idea of the brut deoderent (would it get in the meat, though? eww!) probably worked better than my packing peanuts and lysol spray.
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Ah, goose.
Time for a family story. We were talking about Christmas dinner one time and my mom said something bad about turkey, so I suggested a goose. (We all knew our Dickens.)
She decided to get two of them, put 'em in a roasting pan and popped it into the oven. I don't guess she'd taken into account the warnings about goose fat. Two of those things throw off an immense amount of fat.
When she took the birds out of the oven, she tipped the pan and poured a pool of goose grease on the kitchen floor, then stepped in it.
Down went mother (in her new silk dress), pan, geese, grease, and all. For the rest of her life, mention of geese caused an odd silence in our house.
(Yes, of course we picked up the birds and served 'em. The rest of the family wasn't in the kitchen.)
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Goose grease tale #2.
Also a Xmas dinner, in England. It was a *huge* goose, almost the size of a turkey, but built like a tight end rather than a nose tackle.
It went in the oven and despite removing some of the goose fat there was still a heck of a lot of it. Way too much and it overflowed the roasting tin, down out of the oven and into the cabinet in which wine was stored.
We saved the wine, mostly by drinking it immediately.
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Firenze
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
love the idea of the brut deoderent (would it get in the meat, though? eww!) probably worked better than my packing peanuts and lysol spray.
He was taking it to the taxidermist rather than the kitchen, I believe.
Which reminds me of the ferry from the Cyclades back to Athens: so universal was it that passengers were carrying bags of fresh fish/seafood that the boat had a walk-in fridge. Which is way better than spending 4 hours on the Aegean in summer temperatures in close proximity to a simmering octopus.
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Goose Grease Tale #3
I was young and learning to cook. used a cake pan rather than a deep roasting pan. duh! using a wood stove oven and the grease overflowed within the oven. I hear all sorts of fireworks and open the oven to find my goose en flambe' as well as the whole of the oven compartment. very exciting operation getting that bad boy out of there and out into the snowbank. And the oven was also used to heat the house so the place smelled like burnt goose fat for weeks afterwards. NASTY.
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May I be the first on this side of the Big Pond to wish all our chums south of the border a happy Fourth of July?
Have a good one! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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I sit here on the eve of the fourth, still over thirty minutes left, after a day of helping my mom prepare for her wedding and for the general festivities. Looking toward to tomorrow for the celebration.
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Timothy the Obscure
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Amazingly, it doesn't yet sound like Beirut 1982. Just the occasional random bang.
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Welease Woderwick
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I must say that I quite enjoy a random bang...
...but leaving that aside for a moment
HAPPY FOURTH!!
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crossing my fingers and squeezing my eyes shut that some hotshot with a lighter doesn't burn our state down tomorrow!
happy fourth, everyone! stay safe, enjoy midsummer and party like a revolutionary!
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Happy Independence day, y'all! It's a beautiful clear day here for the first time in about a week, so it should be perfect for fireworks. So it's time to raise a glass, sing the National Anthem like nobody's listening, and party like it's 1776!
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Sioni Sais
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A bit late but...
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday America,
Happy Birthday to you.
237 years, looking pretty good.
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I did end up with a hyperventilating dog sleeping next to me half the night, until things quieted down. But on the whole it wasn't too bad. Then spent the day at the Waterfront Blues Festival, as I do every year at this time.
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And the beat goes on. We have been having fireworks in our county for 3 days now and one to go. Each town seems to have them for the 4th on a different night. Town down the road had them on the third, two other towns had them on the 4th, the Indian Casino had them tonight and our area is having them on Saturday. No reason why, no plan that I know of, but it is fun to keep the party going. I am running out of red, white, and blue outfits however and getting tired of eating hot dogs, and watermelon to support all the local fund raisers. It is just kind of nice to get out of the house once it cools off in the evening. Very thankful with this hot dry weather we have not all gone up in smoke.
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How does one get tired of watermelon? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
I just had a big slice with my turkey sandwich, and feel so contented! God did a good thing making those melons. And especially since She knew to grow them on the ground instead of from a tree.
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the image of a watermelon tree is a little frightening!
doggy fireworks antics: We went downtown for the show (happens at 11 pm, here). I left my car at home, and put Frodo (the dog) in the car, as that's his place of comfort. We live about a mile from the waterfront up the side of a steep hill in deep hemlock forest, so I knew the booms wouldn't be too bad up here.
When we drove home, we came around the corner to see the brake lights on my car erratically going on and off. Frodo had climbed into the footwell under the steering wheel and was stuck. He's over 100 lbs, not a small dog. so we had to do a wedged doggy extraction; took 3 of us.. All the rest of the night I was power snuggled and he's STILL jumpy. I assume someone in the neighborhood was setting off fireworks, also.
poor big baby!
[edited for grammar. geez.]
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One time my choir director brought her newish puppy to rehearsal. Isabella really loves me and got excited every time she saw me.
One night I had to go upstairs to get some music. Isabella decided to accompany me to the loft. She took it into her mind to dive under the organ bench, where she discovered that the footing was less stable than she expected. (Bark, yelp!)
When I got her calmed down and returned to rehearsal, I announced that while I'd heard of a Kitten on the Keys, that was the first time I'd seen a Puppy on the Pedals.
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I've learnt to turn the pedal stops off when I see one of our congregation, who is very partially sighted, and his guide dog heading over in my direction to say hello after the service.
In his early days of coming to say "hello" the dog would tread on the pedals! He didn't connect the hideous sound of C and D pressed down together with his paw action, it was just a useful step to a friendly voice!
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Had a wonderful Fourth with the son and family, spending it in Silverthorne/Dillon Colorado area.
Frisco had the most impressive eclectic Fourth of July parade (I've never seen so many trucks, tractors and I think everyone in Frisco was in the parade. Lots of churches, children on bicycles, costumed dancers, "Colorado Queens", people on horses, and some huge earth moving equipment). Yep, it was one different parade.
Spent some time in Vail, which is like being in a Disneyland German village, but more pretentious and way more expensive.
Then drove to see Tomb and Julie up in the mountains and had a mini meet at a local ski resort. Great day!
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We started the 4th out with a trip to take our older dog to the vet. Came home with him drugged up to the eyeballs with a morphine-relative, so he spent most of the day semi-comatose on the couch. Of course, the drugs started wearing off in time for fireworks, but The Otter Pup to carried him up to the bedroom, where the window air-conditioner, two fans, and a white-noise generator drowned most of the noise out.
The other dog perked his ears up and looked around to see if the bigger booms were something interesting, or boring not-food noises.
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My previous pair of cats spent July 4 under the bed most of the time, especially when they were young, so I was wondering how the new pair would take it. At the first ka-boom, one half-raised an eyelid; the other didn't budge.
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Checking in from camp- by the fire with a new-to-me Jo Nesbo book, having just pigged on pel meni, on the shores of a lake at the foot of a glacier with birds and critters all over and great towering spruce and hemlock above, with thick moss below. Green paradise.
I needed this.
(and yes! Full cell service! Crazy!)
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Part of my brain is thanking God for giving you this great vacation. The other part is breaking the last Commandment at the top of my mental lungs (coveting ya know): I wanna! I wanna!.
Well, the better halfa brain is now telling the unruly half to shut the feck up. So here's to having a good time for yourself, comet.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Lady A
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Timothy poked me to say there was a shipmeet about (which I missed) and so I'm looking in. Just got back from a trip to Ireland with my daughter and we had a blast! Yes, it was hot over there - came back with a tan for heaven's sake! We had two weeks off and about with a car, hostel rooms and directions from megolithic Ireland - traipsing over sheep pastures and cow fields, hitting pubs every night for music - really had a marvelous time. I'd go back again. Truly was amazing.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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*bump*
Page two? Really?
The weather man from one of the local stations was wending his way toward the station for the 5AM show, when he found cows standing in the middle of one of the main roads in town. Surprise!!!
I know. Lame post, but nothing exciting is happening. Yet.
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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