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I know it.....I just felt like I hadn't had enough grease in my diet lately 🤣

No 😶 I need to get the AF out again.....it's resting comfortably on a shelf lol.

Felt hungry about 8 pm on Thanksgiving day, so pizza had to be made. Sausage, mushroom and jalapeño . In preparation for our hunter friend coming on Wednesday, I made a huge batch of egg rolls yesterday. Had those, noodles and sticky wings last night.

@chefmd That's a delicious looking spread! Could you tell me more about the bean dish on the left in the last picture?

For the broccoli salad? I made mayo in a mason jar using the stick blender (one cup of veg. oil, one egg, splash of vinegar and salt and pepper). Then mixed that with about 1/4 cup of sugar, a couple TB of red wine vinegar and a bit more salt and pepper.

I like that! Mix it up, change it up! Fun! Holidays are always hosted by my brother and sister in law (bless them for doing it, 'cause it's just not my thing). She always has me bring the bread. It's so easy that I feel guilty so I always ask what else I can do. This year it was salad. Hard to come up with a salad that I think they would like--nuts and fruits etc. I don't think would be such a big hit. No beets, no squash, no brussels sprouts....Anyway, I went with the always popular broccoli salad and a sweet jello type salad that has been in my family for decades. It's called Jackie's Salad. No one knows or maybe remembers who the hell Jackie is, but her salad graced most every Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas table when I was growing up.

I wonder what the reason for that was. Is there a prominent dish that always uses corn and carrots together? I mean, why not bundle up potatoes and onions, or eggplant and potato etc.?

Same. I look back and can't believe what I got accomplished AND I was working 9+ hours a day. What happened to that girl?

Me too, although it does come in handy as one of those things that can be thawed out pretty quickly and made into something edible.

I swear it's not 🤣 I'm panicking , too, as usual, about Christmas. Remember when as kids it seemed like the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas was about 10 eons long???? What happened????

I'd say like a venison steak. Rare to med. rare. You're right on both counts, small and very very lean. They are maybe a tad bigger than a cornish game hen. I like it best when Ronnie plucks them like this and leaves the skin on. When you do just the breasts, they are pretty dry and need something like bacon to wrap around them IMO.

Mallards--roasted in the CSO. Was aiming for 140F--over shot a bit even though I checked at 15 minutes. Still tender though. Thought I would have enough left over to make a little duck and noodles but Ronnie really liked them. Duck and noodles another time. I rubbed them with lemon and then put the lemons inside. I've only done this with chicken--wasn't sure about doing it on duck, but it was a hit.

Brilliant.

Ronnie smoked some beef ribs and then I sous vide them for 24 hours or so. Tender enough that I could have a bite or two Ronnie's plate My sad plate lol Been wanting pizza really bad. Had some left over chicken so half was chicken, bacon (realized I can't do bacon with the periodontal stuff ), roasted cherry tomato and that zucchini butter that I made this summer for "sauce". Other half was olive, mushroom and sausage.

It got pretty big.....but I'm sure for this winter you'd be fine in a small pot. I remember her's (after years and years) being in a pot that was like 15" wide and maybe 18" deep (just guessing here).

My grammy always had an aloe vera plant . Used it on sunburns and kitchen burns.

That's too fancy

Alien eggs have to be eaten with alien cheese.

I've always wanted to make mole, but then I forget about it. When it enters my brain again, it's always too close to dinner time.

Sous vide goose breast is also good. People at work couldn't tell it wasn't roast beef. I'll experiment further.

Ohhhhh Kay, I can make it so you'd love it. Goose and noodles. Tastes like fall apart in your mouth beef. It's a process, but it's tasty. I think I blogged about it here?

It's not if you come to Kansas and have the licenses .

Definitely throw and go over here....although I did peruse some recipes and added some cream cheese at the end to make it more creamy. A good addition. Along with the usual suspects: Chicken Hatch chiles Tomatoes Garlic Onion Cumin, salt, pepper, cilantro etc. Chicken broth Threw in some corn Half a hunk of cream cheese Squirt of lime and cheddar cheese when served

White chili and cornbread Potstickers and drunken noodles

Aw, I was just kidding, guys