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[sunflower]

I need a new coat!

[kayrharris]

Target carries a good selection of women's coats and they have
great prices!

http://www.target.com/Long-Coats-Outerw ... e=15218171

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

My coat came from the Venetian Glam collection. It has a detachable fur collar and cuffs and is long. I've been using the same leather jacket for six years and I figured that it was time for a change.

[kayrharris]

What color coat did you get? Sounds like a very nice one. I like the fact
you can change it a little bit.

[clem21]

What color coat did you get? Sounds like a very nice one. I like the fact
you can change it a little bit.

Kay come chat....I can aid and abet at the same time

[kayrharris]

What color coat did you get? Sounds like a very nice one. I like the fact
you can change it a little bit.

Kay come chat....I can aid and abet at the same time

OK

[silvercamaro]

Jeff's little brother is also a doctor / professor, but he is more of a professor than a doctor. Anyway, he was in New Zealand doing some sort of foreign professor exchange and stayed at another professor's house for a month and teaching. The professor from New Zealand and his family are doing the same sort of thing in reverse during the month of November.

This will be fun! The university foreign exchange people I've met always are interesting and curious about everything.

Tell them that your friends from across the U.S. send them best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving, American-style. I don't find a Thanksgiving equivalent in a list of New Zealand holidays, but we could always celebrate Waitangi Day on the Bored in their honor on Feb. 6. We're always up for a good excuse for another party in the lounge.

[kayrharris]

Jeff's little brother is also a doctor / professor, but he is more of a professor than a doctor. Anyway, he was in New Zealand doing some sort of foreign professor exchange and stayed at another professor's house for a month and teaching. The professor from New Zealand and his family are doing the same sort of thing in reverse during the month of November.

This will be fun! The university foreign exchange people I've met always are interesting and curious about everything.

Tell them that your friends from across the U.S. send them best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving, American-style. I don't find a Thanksgiving equivalent in a list of New Zealand holidays, but we could always celebrate Waitangi Day on the Bored in their honor on Feb. 6. We're always up for a good excuse for another party in the lounge.

Heck yes and a chance to increase my post count.

[secondchance]

Are you cooking Thanksgiving dinner? Can you believe I'm baking my first
turkey ever? Always had someone else doing the cooking or we went out.....guess it's never
too late to learn. I'm hoping for the best.

We are hosting Thanksgiving, but Jeff is making the turkey. He does a really good job, putting rosemary and garlic under the skin while it's cooking.

Yep, Alton Brown cooks his that way. Christie and I were talking earlier about whether
to brine the turkey. She does and everything I've read said it really make it moist.

If you make stuffing, may I recommend Mrs. Cubbisons brand, the Herb Seasoned variety; it's very tasty. Instead of adding just onion and celery, I refigure it to include equal amounts of chopped onion, diced celery, and minced carrots. Carrot is kind of unusual, but I like it cuz it adds a bit of extra taste, color, and crunch. I also add extra sage, but otherwise no extra seasoning is needed. I use chicken broth for the liquid requirement.

And then... there's the gravy. But you're probably used to making gravy from southern chicken dishes? I like to add fresh mushroom slices when it's simmering.

I'll need to check out this brining tip. I usually stick pieces of butter under the skin; maybe I'll try the rosemary and garlic this year.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

What color coat did you get? Sounds like a very nice one. I like the fact
you can change it a little bit.

It's black.

[ulysses5019]

Emma has a wonderful sense of humor. Are these guests relatives?
I'm just being nosy.

Jeff's little brother is also a doctor / professor, but he is more of a professor than a doctor. Anyway, he was in New Zealand doing some sort of foreign professor exchange and stayed at another professor's house for a month and teaching. The professor from New Zealand and his family are doing the same sort of thing in reverse during the month of November.

So will the New Zealanders let their kiwi "cure" in their toilet? More importantly, if they flush it will it spin counterclockwise?

[kayrharris]

We are hosting Thanksgiving, but Jeff is making the turkey. He does a really good job, putting rosemary and garlic under the skin while it's cooking.

Yep, Alton Brown cooks his that way. Christie and I were talking earlier about whether
to brine the turkey. She does and everything I've read said it really make it moist.

If you make stuffing, may I recommend Mrs. Cubbisons brand, the Herb Seasoned variety; it's very tasty. Instead of adding just onion and celery, I refigure it to include equal amounts of chopped onion, diced celery, and minced carrots. Carrot is kind of unusual, but I like it cuz it adds a bit of extra taste, color, and crunch. I also add extra sage, but otherwise no extra seasoning is needed. I use chicken broth for the liquid requirement.

And then... there's the gravy. But you're probably used to making gravy from southern chicken dishes? I like to add fresh mushroom slices when it's simmering.

I'll need to check out this brining tip. I usually stick pieces of butter under the skin; maybe I'll try the rosemary and garlic this year.

I have a friend who make dressing for me and I make homemade cranberry sauce for him
Your dressing sounds fabulous. The brining is quite popular these days and really easy...just have to plan
ahead the night before you bake it. The one I saw was Alton Brown's - he uses kosher salt and brown
sugar in his.

[kayrharris]

Today's Google "How to" of the day:


How to Make Good Hotel Room Coffee

I could have used that this past week!

[kayrharris]

Five constructive ways to deal with your most difficult relatives

appropriate for this time of year, I suppose.

[kayrharris]

How to make hot mulled beer on a chilly day



hot mulled beer?? Sounds terrible!!

[peacock2121]

Are you cooking Thanksgiving dinner? Can you believe I'm baking my first
turkey ever? Always had someone else doing the cooking or we went out.....guess it's never
too late to learn. I'm hoping for the best.

I am shocked I tell you - shocked!

[peacock2121]

Just saw where GM will save $7 million a year just by dropping Tiger
Woods endorsement contract!

Tiger says it was mutual - he wants to spend more time with Sam.

[peacock2121]

Today's Google "How to" of the day:


How to Make Good Hotel Room Coffee

I could have used that this past week!

I travel with a coffee maker and coffee and a mug.

[peacock2121]

Five constructive ways to deal with your most difficult relatives

appropriate for this time of year, I suppose.

1. stop calling them difficult

[ghostjmf]

Kay:

Slow turkey cooking. Give it lots of hours. Give it lots of basting. Alton Brown usually will not screw you up. Though I don't get cable & have never followed him, my sister has, so I've tasted his recommendations.

If the turkey is done ahead of time, you can always keep it hot enough to eat at a low temp, whereas if it isn't done, waiting is just no fun.

Stuff with whatever your heart tells you to. I make my own (lots of onions, carrots, celery, orange juice, walnuts), my sister does a different very exotic gourmet recipe each year, its all good.

[littlebeast13]

This thread will self destruct in exactly 10 seconds....

lb13

[littlebeast13]

What color coat did you get? Sounds like a very nice one. I like the fact
you can change it a little bit.

Kay come chat....I can aid and abet at the same time

OK

Sure, wait till I go to work to have all the fun.

I ran everyone off earlier this evening. I am the new chat leper....

lb13

[littlebeast13]

Kay come chat....I can aid and abet at the same time

OK

Sure, wait till I go to work to have all the fun.

I ran everyone off earlier this evening. I am the new chat leper....

lb13

I guess I should say last evening, but I've been up all night so it still seems like this evening....

lb13

[kayrharris]

Yep, they kept me up past 1:00AM!! Sorry you missed out
on all the fun.

[Tocqueville3]

Five constructive ways to deal with your most difficult relatives

appropriate for this time of year, I suppose.

1. stop calling them difficult

This is the best advice. My inlaws are coming for Thanksgiving. I was really nervous at first. My mother in law and I have trouble sometimes and my father in law is a redneck pig. But on the bright side they want to come spend time with the girls and that is a great thing.

If I keep looking at them as being difficult then I will never get to where I can enjoy them and just appreciate them for who they are. They are geting up there and so we might not have many more holidays.

Since we are in a much bigger house this year I invited both my parents and inlaws. My parents said they would rather stay home. My mom wanted us to come to them and she's pouting. What-ev-er. My inlaws gladly accepted our invitation. I think that speaks volumes about my parents vs. my inlaws.