Cooking

[hudebnik]

Tuesday afternoon, the mail-ordered turkey arrived.

Tuesday night, made cranberry sauce (using the Once And Future Mulled Cranberry Sauce recipe, which we've been using for about 25 years)

Wednesday night, made broccoli slaw (using the new-to-us Mighty Quinn's recipe, slightly modified because neither of us like mayonnaise, and scaled down by a factor of three because it makes over a gallon). Made a cold-water pie crust and filled it with chocolate pecan pie. Made a nut-and-rice-flour pie crust, but too sleepy to fill it with cranberry curd.

Thursday, there's a lot left to do. In no particular order,...

• watch parades & dog show on TV


• roast turkey (the same recipe we've been using for about 25 years)


• sausage stuffing (the recipe shalmestere grew up with fifty-mumble years ago)


• sweet potato tian (a new recipe to us this year)


• carrot slaw (a recipe we've been using on and off for ten or twenty years)


• cranberry curd tart (one of the NY Times's most popular recipes, which we've been doing on and off for maybe ten years)


• gravy (the way shalmestere learned to make it fifty-mumble years ago)


• We were thinking of a Latin American "corn pie", but I think that may be postponed to next week.


• clear the table, lay a festive holiday tablecloth, set the table


• eat


• wash lots of dishes


• call relatives

Comments

[mtbc]

Sounds good! And, yeah, we have a bit of postponability among dishes too, to keep things easy. Yesterday evening, in the store, I saw bottles Sage & Onion Stuffing Mayonnaise and did not for a moment consider buying it.

[liveonearth]

Hey I just scanned your public entries and started following you. I got back on DW and realized that most of my friends have moved on or become inactive. I'm retired now and looking to journal more actively...searching for meaning. I live in Oregon. Hope you are well.

[hudebnik]

Thanks. Yes, DW is pretty quiet these days, with people having moved to Facebook and then (in disgust at that) to Mastodon or Bluesky.

You appear to be a real person, not a bot, a troll, or a romance-scam. Out of curiosity, how did you come across my posts?

sorry about the lag--I am a real person

[liveonearth]

The problem lies in the fact that DW is still sending responses to my old email and I'm moving away from it...well I should check, I may have gotten that updated by now.

I cannot remember how I ran across your handle or entries, or what was in them. I'm simply searching for real live thoughtful humans, openminded humans maybe even. My feed isn't as empty as it was when I sent this, and I have been journaling just a little bit.

I live in Portland, Oregon, and am originally from Tennessee. I just turned 60, and I'm out of work and at this point I don't know if/how I'll find paying work again. I find no shortage of unpaid work so I'm always busy, and never very rich. Such is the lot of a Genx female in our culture.

Anyway, I'll close there, and wait to see if you have something to say!
TG aka liveonearth

Re: sorry about the lag--I am a real person

[hudebnik]

Well, "real live thoughtful open-minded human" is a pretty good thing to aspire to these days. Hope you find more of them!