Posted by Amanda Marcotte November 22, 2007 in Animals, Video
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GRRRRRRRRR!
I’m sitting in the goddamned Sioux Falls airport, waiting for my plane that was supposed to leave a half hour ago. I’ve already rescheduled my connection to Boston, so I’ll probably get to the apartment at around 8 or 9 tonight. At that time, I’ll probably have some stinky cheese and beaujolais nouveau. The rest of the day is airport scrounging.
I FUCKING HATE NORTHWORST AIRLINES!!
Pretty much the traditional: turkey, stuffing, smashed potatoes, corn, cranberry sauce and there will be a cold plate of sliced cucumbers, celery, mushrooms and radishes. My wife is on call from 3:00 PM to 7:30 PM, so we have to eat early.
Sorry that you’re stuck, Jeff.
So is pronounced “l.o.l. cats” or “lulcats?” I need answers.
Brandy, spiced rum, a little Malibu, making some autumn martinis…oh wait! You said EATING! Sorry about that. Well, I made the cornbread dressing, garlic mashed potatoes, and sweet potato souffle last night. I’ve got two turkey breasts brining in a lemon-garlic mixture, and I’m about to make some pigs-in-a-blanket with lil’ smokies! Oh, and for dessert? Pumpkin milkshakes.
Damn! I knew I was forgetting something, the cranberry sauce!
Maybe I have a can in the cupboard. Not the same but it will work.
Today the menu is: Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed/smashed and generally abused potatoes, sweet potato casserole, tossed salad, buttered broccoli and cheesey broccoli, dinner rolls, and pumpkin pie.
Let’s see if the crew can figure out what I left out of this years dinner. They didn’t seem to miss it last year.
Jeff I’d bring you up some, ‘cept I don’t drive in Boston at night unless I can help it. (wound up in too many weird places). Does Souix Falls airport have anything open that will give you a decent “holiday” type meal?
Food comes at about three. Until then, I’m subsisting on Pringles.
I can’t believe they left out the Depression-era work of Aloysius G. Koford!
Just goes to show, you can’t trust any documentaries from PBS.
I flew to Hawaii and got the creepiest stuff to eat, but at least I got something. My wife flew first class across country on Northwest and got a single bag of peanuts. For some reason, there was no food on the plane. They forgot it in Seattle? For a cross country flight? No movies, no seat music service, no nothing. And the tickets were ‘competitive’ for the flight she was on.
But the choices for us here are limited. Northwest or United. Well, that’s Northwest with half the flights in those micro RJ’s or AVRO’s and United (Express) which is ALL RJ’s and they make a New York subway car look clean enough to eat off the floors! ICK! Plus when we got on ‘real’ United planes, the flight attendants kept complaining about the condition of the plane and that so much on it was broken. Seats, coffee makers, ovens…
Flying isn’t what it used to be. It’s ironic that the what, second largest airplane company is called ‘Airbus’. No tongue in cheek on that one?
And meaning to burst the bubble of all those Fox News fans that might get lost and read the posts here I quote Patrick Smith:
And a bunch of airlines that rape customers for their CEO perks?
Spinach lasagne and garlic bread. Recipe here.
“Gourmet” here, ie, someone ELSE made it! Charlie does all of the cooking for Thanksgiving and Christmas; I spend the day outside starting to address the Christmas lights and wash up all the dishes. He’s been up since 5am, even with most of the food prepped the past 2 days; dinner soon.
Jill, that sounds GREAT! Will try that this winter…
Jeff, safe travels and hope your afternoon and evening go better!
currently, we are still working the mimosas. soon we will segue into some nice local wines and a sexy cheese plate, involving some port salud and some english cheddar with caramelised onions, among other little delights. then the Traditional: mashed yukon golds, sweet potato casserole, green beans with lemon butter and toasted pecans, cranberry chutney, and turkey + stuffing, which will hopefully not suck, as the only turkey we could lay our hands on came pre-brined. even if it sucks, we have some nice champagne to console us. and then, of course, the Pie. oh, the pie.
Ribeye Roast,
Garlic/Potato Casserole,
Broccoli/Cheese Casserole,
Pumpkin Pie,
Misc. goodies…
(and a heart bypass when we’re finished…
I have a friend coming in from out of town, and I’m very much hoping to find an open restaurant. No luck calling places so far, so we may just wander downtown and try our luck.
shrimp newburg on toast points. im single.
Smashed taters, vegetarian stuffing, loads of cooked/steamed veggies…etc.
First holiday as a veg*n. Hope I don’t get too much crap for it.
erin: the nice thing about vegan thanksgivings is that you can go all-out on desserts. we did an almond-milk-base dark chocolate mousse one year that was to-die-for.
“Dr. Confused
November 22, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I have a friend coming in from out of town, and I’m very much hoping to find an open restaurant. No luck calling places so far, so we may just wander downtown and try our luck.”
I hope you like Chinese! Boston Market has a traditional turkey menu up today, and they close at 6:00pm (Eastern). We couldn’t find any other open restaurants, and yes, I know, BM isn’t exactly fine dining.
Took Mom to the Chinese buffet for lunch. Tradition, you see.
“Lokn at yur wiener” is the funniest thing ever.
Turkey, mashed potatoes with garlic and bacon, smoked salmon spread, bacon chive and roasted garlic spread, sweet potatoes, relish tray, stuffing, cranberry sauce, two kinds of pumpkin pie, key lime pie, chocolate silk pie, lemon merinuge pie, nanimo bars, egg nog, hot cider, biscuits and I think that’s it.
Maybe.
Happy turkey day folks!
Forgive me, commentors, for I shall sin:
Off-topic post:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/11/anti-crusader-mikey-weinstein.html
Someone who isn’t for fundie control of the military is being treated in, surprise, a very un-Christian manner. Jeez, you’d almost think Christ had nothing to do with it.
I wonder how many people would be posting lolcats if they knew where they originated.
More to the point–I had some homemade apple banana bread, dill potatoes, turkey-grease-coated potatoes, very fresh salad, homemade cranberry sauce with pineapple in it, a bit of homemade wine, and finally locally-baked apple pie with both chocolate and vanilla ice cream. And, of course, the sparkling company of family and friends.
“And, of course, the sparkling company of family and friends.”
Sure. Just rub it in…
Pheasant (we’re only 3, so turkey’s too big), stuffing, pumkin casserole, roast potatoes, red wine. We’ll have pears and blue cheese later.
Thanks all..made it home to a very happy cat. Now, my Thanksgiving dinner of diet coke.
And a jar of tomato-fennel soup
Thank you, thank you for that, Amanda and mnemosyne. I am now lost in the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats archives, and giggling intermittently. Wonderful.
I had the traditional turkey/stuffing/mashed potatoes/cranberries/pumpkin pie at my parents’ house, then half a game of Balderdash afterwards. But now I’m hungry again, and it’s only been a couple of hours. What I’ll eat depends on how long I care to actually get up from the computer….
Happy Thanksgiving to all. And fie upon the airlines annoying MAJeff!
Off to bed after a low-stress day (no out-of-town family, just friends) with a pretty traditional meal. Did the stuffing vegetarian style (one of our guests is vegetarian) and it was good, if I do say so myself - onions, dried apples, garlic and celery; veggie broth; sage, tarragon, salt and pepper.
Three desserts (what? there were six adults and three children!) including my very favorite pumpkin pie with cinnamon meringue topping. Mmmm.
Serving the same meal again tomorrow, minus the potatoes and probably plus noodles, for Shabbat.
grendelkhan,
I suspect half of us frequent the place you’re thinking of, and the rest of us have the good sense to realize that the foulness of that place doesn’t infect the entire phenomenon of captioned cats.
Oh, yes. If I had done any cooking this year, I would have done my annual variation on Jacques Pepin recipe. I use four kinds of mushrooms, and dried cherries instead of golden raisins. And I also get a nice bread to make my own croutons (with olive oil and herbs). But I’ve never written any of my variations down–a year to year thing.
We, er, ate our turkey about two weeks ago, and several family members worked today, so we went for a quick and easy buffet-type thing. Two kinds of sausage, one salty cheese my mom likes and one sweet fig cheese, marinated olives, marinated mushrooms. Four things from a Lebanese restaurant in our neighborhood (we picked the stuff up earlier this week): garlic puree, eggplant puree (I can’t spell the actual name), their house salad, and their tahini salad. Pita bread, mini cheesecakes from Safeway. Mom made her pumpkin pie, and I mulled the cider. One holiday meal where I had almost nothing to do. Hehehe.
Funfun. Now to plan Christmas…
Oh man, what didn’t we have.
Appetizers:
Bacon-wrapped water chestnuts
shrimp/artichoke dip (w/ crackers)
bacon/cheese dip (w/ crackers)
tamales
hawaiian bread with spinach dip
Main meal:
Turkey
mashed potatoes
stuffing
(gravy on the above)
Ham with grilled pineapple
crescent rolls with orange glaze
round crescent rolls
sweet potato biscuits
cornbread
garlic jalapeño green beans (my contribution!)
homemade macaroni and cheese
cranberry sauce
sweet potatoes
marshmallow fruit salad
broccoli (with melted butter)
caramelized butternut squash
green bean casserole
some kind of asparagus dish
Desserts:
cranberry bread
heath bar pie
chocolate pie
pumpkin pie
marble cheesecake
chocolate cherry cheesecake
Swedish nuts
whipped cream for the pies
Thanksgiving is a HUGE deal for us. Cooking is my mom’s favorite thing in the world and this is her favorite day of the whole year, so she goes all out. There were at least two more things I can picture but don’t know the names or ingredients of. one reminded me of a…sort of hash brown casserole?
Oh yeah add “stuffed mushroom caps” to the appetizer list.
Steak night at the local pub, since I had Turkey Day back in October with the rest of civilization .
8oz strip loin with mushrooms and a salad; I’m seeing if I can pull off the reduced-carb thing.
I also had Let’s Pretend We Reached Out To The Aboriginal People day back in October, but today checked out a new Greek place near my house. Happy to have had:
Avgolemono soup (Chicken, rice, lemon and egg) with Moussaka and Greek Salad. Plus Greek style boozy coffee and Sleeman beer in the bottle. Oh yeah.
MH states he/she is eating:
Appetizers:
Bacon-wrapped water chestnuts
shrimp/artichoke dip (w/ crackers)
bacon/cheese dip (w/ crackers)
tamales
hawaiian bread with spinach dip
Main meal:
Turkey
mashed potatoes
stuffing
(gravy on the above)
Ham with grilled pineapple
crescent rolls with orange glaze
round crescent rolls
sweet potato biscuits
cornbread
garlic jalapeño green beans (my contribution!)
homemade macaroni and cheese
cranberry sauce
sweet potatoes
marshmallow fruit salad
broccoli (with melted butter)
caramelized butternut squash
green bean casserole
some kind of asparagus dish
Desserts:
cranberry bread
heath bar pie
chocolate pie
pumpkin pie
marble cheesecake
chocolate cherry cheesecake
Swedish nuts
whipped cream for the pies
Bye-bye. Can I have your stereo after you snuff it?
(How come we don’t have a day celebrating excess like this?)
I like cats.
Some people here might appreciate the Lexington Herald-Leader’s photo gallery of cats living in the barns at the thoroughbred farms in Kentucky.
We had deep fried turkey with cajun spices, mashed potatoes, sweet potato souflee…souf…casserole, green bean casserole (the kind with the crunchy fried onions on top), steamed broccoli with cheese, stuffing that didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to, gravy, crescent rolls b/c I was too lazy to make biscuits, fried yellow squash and zucchini (because, it turns out, I didn’t have enough onion and sour cream to make a to-die for stuffing casserole thingie I have a recipe for and we had enough casseroles, I thought). For dessert, there was a choice of cherry, pumpkin, sweet potato or pecan pie and I made whipped cream. (Redi-whip is of Satan.)
Oh, we had the same thing for Thanksgiving that we have every single year: turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, rolls, and pumpkin pie. Never varies, and god help the person who tries to vary it, because it will be talked about in shocked tones for years to come. They’ve only just gotten over the fact that one year I brought a fresh vegetable plate for people to snack on.
It used to be very, very good for all of the simplicity, but years of smoking have robbed my mom of her sense of taste (she claims it’s another reason, but I suspect it’s the smoking) so now everything is ridiculously bland, but we can’t convince her to let anyone else cook.
The pumpkin pie was from Ralphs (Kroger to you Southerners) and it was REALLY bad. We ended upp picking up a pecan-cranberry tart on the way home and having some of that. Then we watched the MST3K version of “Santa Claus” and all was well.
“I suspect half of us frequent the place you’re thinking of, and the rest of us have the good sense to realize that the foulness of that place doesn’t infect the entire phenomenon of captioned cats.”
Watchu mean? Is there something I should know that I don’t?
“I suspect half of us frequent the place you’re thinking of, and the rest of us have the good sense to realize that the foulness of that place doesn’t infect the entire phenomenon of captioned cats.”
I’ve been trying to figure out what you mean. Is it the Internet locale that is referenced on the lolcat Wikipedia page as being the origin of lolcats?
MH- Garlic Jalapeno Green Beans?
The holy trinity….*drool*
Care to share?
Well I didn’t have full portions of all of it, nor did I eat every dish. I had just a bite or two of most of them, but they were all there to be eaten.
There were so many foods in part because we had three families’ worth of people here - my family, my friend’s family, and my sister’s old boyfriend’s family all got together. I think it was about 20 people.
You probably could have figured it out on your own - I just ran some garlic and peppers (and olive oil) through the food processor and tossed the beans in them.
Anyway:
I put a few jalapeños, about 1/4 of an onion, and about half a clove of garlic into the food processor, along with some olive oil and a splash of lemon juice - maybe a teaspoon. I use the Pulse option, just pulsing it a few times - I didn’t want to liquefy everything! I didn’t make exact measurements - I usually just eyeball everything I make, or modify it “to taste”. I added some salt and black pepper also.
Anyway, boil some green beans, and after boiling them, immediately put them into cold ice water to shock them - it stops them from cooking further [which can result in limp beans, I like them to retain a little crispness]. It also brightens the green color.
Then just toss the beans in the mixture. Note: I had to toss about half the ground-up mixture, it made a lot more than the beans needed. I personally prefer serrano peppers, but they’re too hot for my white bread family & guests, so I toned it down.
PhysioProf: Yes, that place.
You overestimate my culinary abilities.
Thanks though! They sound good.
“Yes, that place.”
Phew. I was afraid you were going to tell me that icanhascheezburger is run by neo-Nazi seal-clubbers.