Strong work Thermadin. Truly earned the man card with that water heater replacement. You truly earned the right to carve the turkey after the blessing today.
Comment by TeeRoy Jenkins on November 25, 2021 6:28 am
Clean, hot water on demand. My ancestors would’ve sacrificed first born for clean hot water on demand. I been to not nice places, most mornings when I get in the shower I still marvel for a moment at the implications of clean, hot water on demand.
Sometimes I get frustrated by the struggle of life in general, forgetting that all things considered, I live pretty fucking high on the hog compared to earlier generations.
What most dont consider is that it could all go away fairley easily and it doesn’t exist everywhere.
I’ve had a really nice visit here in Utah, had a lot of good conversations with this branch of my family, parents, sister and her kids and grandkids. The state of things inevitably comes up in conversations, nobody here is near me in the political spectrum of opinion but they are all pretty pessimistic in outlook. We are a people of putting your head down and grinding away, hoping for the best outcomes by doing what we think is right.
Lumpy’s advice to not talk to the zombies was invaluable to me over the last few days, I refused to engage. I can still be crazy but lovable uncle Pup without telling these people what I think about their Trump-hate and vaccine love. I love them, I’m sorry they are being manipulated by bad actors with malicious agendas, but “Oh? Hunh.” and a change of subject is all you are gonna get out of me zombie.
I’m thankful for all the little things that make my life awesome. I feel lucky every day. I love you guys, I hope your bag of dicks runneth over.
I follow a couple Discords that seem to be Euro-trash-heavy. In addition to general derision of the US for all manner of things (vaccination rates, guns, Thanksgiving, the usual), it sounds like there are very real rumblings about Russia moving on Ukraine in the near future. One imagines Putin wouldn’t feel quite so frisky if the same Euro-trash hadn’t been rooting for the turnip now planted in the WH.
Our house smells like bacon currently. Guests won’t be here for another hour. Hopefully the smell of Bell’s Turkey Seasoning will replace the bacon smell by mid afternoon.
Comment by roamingfirehydrant on November 25, 2021 9:57 am
We are a people of putting your head down and grinding away, hoping for the best outcomes by doing what we think is right.
Lumpy’s advice to not talk to the zombies was invaluable to me over the last few days, I refused to engage. I can still be crazy but lovable uncle Pup without telling these people what I think about their Trump-hate and vaccine love. I love them, I’m sorry they are being manipulated by bad actors with malicious agendas, but “Oh? Hunh.” and a change of subject is all you are gonna get out of me zombie.
I award this five rocket launchers and a box of .45 ACP ammo. (Neighbor was up early shooting things. I wish I had his ammo budget.)
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Turkey is in the oven for a noonish dinner.
I hope the NY health dept enjoys the many many many improved health outcomes for New Yorkers from enforcing the mandate.
Comment by roamingfirehydrant on November 25, 2021 10:09 am
Lol’d at the video for MJ.
Comment by Thermadin on November 25, 2021 10:25 am
Thanks Jimbro. However no Turkey today, we’re doing ham. For whatever reason I can’t cook a Turkey worth a damn. I’ve got one in the freezer and I’m thinking about spatchcocking it on the grill. If anyone has tried this method I’d be happy to hear the results.
Comment by Thermadin on November 25, 2021 10:34 am
Also we got really lucky the water heater failed when it did. Home Depot was closing at 6:30. If it failed a couple hours later we would have been screwed.
I like to think of everything that we have and take for granted that many others don’t. inexpensive power that’s reliable, internet access, smartphones, 1000 TV channels. then laugh about how oppressed we are. I read that someone wants to change the name of thanksgiving. they haven’t been thankful in their whole life. they just take. it’s sad but we don’t have to be like them.
My oven doesn’t hold heat long enough to make Jay’s suggestion work. So here’s what I’m going to do: 5 minutes a pound at 500°, then set temp to 300° and watch until meat reaches 125°. May eat early or may eat late, but eat we will.
do you like it really rare? 125 is lower than I like for ribeye. I like about 132, with all the marbling. I’d pull at 120 to 123. lower if you want a little rarer
I do on rare occasions but just use the blade thingie. I’ve heard the burr is superior from the coffee “experts”. We go through too much coffee to grind it daily although I do have more time on my hands these days and it may be a nice switch. I was just thinking of ordering some more coffee … it’s going to be whole beans dammit!
Comment by Dave's not here on November 25, 2021 4:43 pm
Lots to be thankful for today. In a perverse way, I’m thankful for COVID-19 today. It lead to getting the better half out of the PT facility from hell last night. Long story that involved verbal fighting with staff nurses, and other things. Short story is she has respiratory issues and yesterday the place discovered a COVID case in house. Not sure if it was staff or a resident, I’m leaning toward staff as the place has security that matches level 4 DOC. Keeping it short, I told them she’s going home, safer there than in a facility under a covid lockdown. Then the arguments ensued. Ended with my telling a particularly obnoxious nurse if she’d like to speak to my attorney it could be arranged. Anywho, she’s back home, gonna have a lobster and we’ll figure out the next step after the holiday is over with.
Oso got the passive aggressive mom text for Thanksgiving. We’re lucky that she has an issue that precludes her return to rehab. Multiple visitors before quarantine.
Saturday is our day. mom said no Thanksgiving this year, she’s too busy. closing on her sister’s house the first so she’s doing last minute stuff. sister in law and I are serving on Saturday. not sure if mom is a fan but oh well
Find a pirated version of ATK pumpkin pie recipe online. It’s great because you prebake the crust and pour hot pie filling into it while the crust is still warm. Cuts the baking time a LOT by putting it all together hot to begin with, and that prevents the crust from going soggy. They also add some yam to it to improve the flavor.
Comment by roamingfirehydrant on November 25, 2021 6:25 pm
I am happy with how everything turned out for Thanksgiving dinner. I am trying the Instapot method of making turkey frame soup (onion, celery, carrots, and mindful of the max level for water, followed by straining the broth, adding frozen mixed vegetables and some of the turkey meat). Nice to just hit the button and go do something else.
14.5 lb. turkey for five people, sent Rocketboy home with leftovers, some set aside for Mini-me, some for the soup, and some for Thanksgiving 2.0.
Pay started into dangerous territory with Hannah today (and everything has been going so nicely) – about health outcomes of poor people (and she’s taken a LOT of classes on the subject1!!!!11). I walked behind her and gave him the stare of death.
I’m sure Laura’s family all has advanced health degrees and Laura is convinced. curious on the car in family scuffle and which way that broke. could be either way with mama bear stare
…and in the case of large grocery chains, a former client of mine (who sets up grocery stores for a living) said that as soon as they express an interest in building on a parcel of land in an urban area, the community organizers descend to make sure they hire specific people and it’s a union shop and those specific people don’t have to work much and can never be fired and also those people will basically be running the place, not actual management. And the company will be donating to the causes that the specific people dictate.
I blind baked the crust. already had the recipe and ingredients so couldn’t switch when stores were closed. not sure how hot filling works, have to investigate that.
I seem to remember a historical note about Ronaldus Magnus and his team examining the nature of the Soviet Union, and coming to the realization that it operated similar to organized crime. Take over an area’s businesses, drain them dry, and be obliged to then conquer more territory to do more of the same.
Poor people generally have bad outcomes for the same reasons that they have poverty, with some notable exceptions, pretty sure that’s, like, science ‘n’ stuff.
She took classes where she learned about people who are impulsive, absorb their values from pop culture and criminals, have no plan for life, do not seek legal employment, and therefore live the shitty lifestyle that these habits earn?
Hannah has taken many classes in the subject so I think we’re going to have to defer to her
It’s not my family gathering. I’m related to poor people. Lots of things can cause bad choices that aren’t entirely in our control, and there are some genuine hard luck cases, but that’s not the way to bet.
Paula bought our turkey last week and as I prepped it today I looked at the label for the weight to get an estimate of cooking time. It was 16 pounds but the thing that surprised me was the price, a little over $12.00. It was your standard bowling ball frozen turkey with the pop up timer but after hearing about all the shortages I was a little taken aback that it was so inexpensive. Must have been a loss leader to get shoppers in the store to buy expensive squash or something.
We’ve been making Bobbies. Thanksgiving rolls around and nyet. Prime Rib and baked taters. Slept through 2 quarters of Cowboy football. Saints/Bills. CoW that was Bills Mafia moved to neighborhood market
If you don’t care to give yahoo the click, it’s about an LA firefighter who, when given his vax mandate letter of noncompliance, dropped trou and wiped his ass with it.
DeSantis should eminent domain her house and doze it into the sea. She has let Kalifornia be turned into a shithole and she should be made to live out her sad pathetic life in that shithole…
Reliable Marriage Advice since March 2009 
Thankful for all I have which includes, and I mean this in a evoling way, all you dorks, jamokes and birdbrains
Strong work Thermadin. Truly earned the man card with that water heater replacement. You truly earned the right to carve the turkey after the blessing today.
Clean, hot water on demand. My ancestors would’ve sacrificed first born for clean hot water on demand. I been to not nice places, most mornings when I get in the shower I still marvel for a moment at the implications of clean, hot water on demand.
Sometimes I get frustrated by the struggle of life in general, forgetting that all things considered, I live pretty fucking high on the hog compared to earlier generations.
What most dont consider is that it could all go away fairley easily and it doesn’t exist everywhere.
I hope everyone enjoys the day.
https://is.gd/_Special_Thanksgiving_Message_ for MJ
(Imgur video with sound)
https://is.gd/_Im_thankful_for_quality_memes
I’ve had a really nice visit here in Utah, had a lot of good conversations with this branch of my family, parents, sister and her kids and grandkids. The state of things inevitably comes up in conversations, nobody here is near me in the political spectrum of opinion but they are all pretty pessimistic in outlook. We are a people of putting your head down and grinding away, hoping for the best outcomes by doing what we think is right.
Lumpy’s advice to not talk to the zombies was invaluable to me over the last few days, I refused to engage. I can still be crazy but lovable uncle Pup without telling these people what I think about their Trump-hate and vaccine love. I love them, I’m sorry they are being manipulated by bad actors with malicious agendas, but “Oh? Hunh.” and a change of subject is all you are gonna get out of me zombie.
I’m thankful for all the little things that make my life awesome. I feel lucky every day. I love you guys, I hope your bag of dicks runneth over.
Guhmermin.
Love you dorks. I’m coming in for a hug…
Haven’t showered or brushed my teeth yet. Not my problem.
Thanksgiving Happy.
That was a very nice gif you sent MJ. I’m sure he appreciates it. You are a good pupper. The best. *scritches and a liver snap*
Happy Thanksgiving everybody.
I follow a couple Discords that seem to be Euro-trash-heavy. In addition to general derision of the US for all manner of things (vaccination rates, guns, Thanksgiving, the usual), it sounds like there are very real rumblings about Russia moving on Ukraine in the near future. One imagines Putin wouldn’t feel quite so frisky if the same Euro-trash hadn’t been rooting for the turnip now planted in the WH.
Our house smells like bacon currently. Guests won’t be here for another hour. Hopefully the smell of Bell’s Turkey Seasoning will replace the bacon smell by mid afternoon.
https://laughingsquid.com/mickey-mousing-music-movement-in-the-shining/
I need to watch The Shining again.
It’s a Christmas movie.
Cause, Effect … how does it work?
We are a people of putting your head down and grinding away, hoping for the best outcomes by doing what we think is right.
Lumpy’s advice to not talk to the zombies was invaluable to me over the last few days, I refused to engage. I can still be crazy but lovable uncle Pup without telling these people what I think about their Trump-hate and vaccine love. I love them, I’m sorry they are being manipulated by bad actors with malicious agendas, but “Oh? Hunh.” and a change of subject is all you are gonna get out of me zombie.
I award this five rocket launchers and a box of .45 ACP ammo. (Neighbor was up early shooting things. I wish I had his ammo budget.)
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Turkey is in the oven for a noonish dinner.
Lol
I bet they’re blaming the ‘selfish’ unvaxxed employees.
I hope the NY health dept enjoys the many many many improved health outcomes for New Yorkers from enforcing the mandate.
Lol’d at the video for MJ.
Thanks Jimbro. However no Turkey today, we’re doing ham. For whatever reason I can’t cook a Turkey worth a damn. I’ve got one in the freezer and I’m thinking about spatchcocking it on the grill. If anyone has tried this method I’d be happy to hear the results.
Also we got really lucky the water heater failed when it did. Home Depot was closing at 6:30. If it failed a couple hours later we would have been screwed.
I hope the NY health dept enjoys the many many many improved health outcomes for New Yorkers from enforcing the mandate.
https://is.gd/2rqHmx
(Imgur video)
MJ is the king of spatchcocking – refer to pups instructional video series
https://amazingribs.com/spatchcock-turkey-recipe/
I’ve grilled wild turkey.
It comes out pretty good. I either marinate or dry rub. Heh.
I filet them tho. Not much on one actually.
We had a flock of turkeys in the field for a few days last week
Thanks Scott. That link looks good, I’ll give it a try.
Happy Thanksgiving
Meathead is never wrong.
jamster I don’t think of negative when I think of you. I think goofy engineer hat and BBQ.
happy Thanksgiving my fake internet friends.
Scott is right. meathead is never wrong
I like to think of everything that we have and take for granted that many others don’t. inexpensive power that’s reliable, internet access, smartphones, 1000 TV channels. then laugh about how oppressed we are. I read that someone wants to change the name of thanksgiving. they haven’t been thankful in their whole life. they just take. it’s sad but we don’t have to be like them.
mom has tons of turkeys in her yard. I should harvest a couple sometime and try that spatchcocking on one.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I’m especially thankful for your mom, and I know she’ll be thankful for a slice of my meat at dinner tonight.
We have a flock of 12 turkeys that wander through two or three times a day. HotBride would never let me shoot one, but it’s tempting.
She’s partial to the dark meat
meathead is never wrong.
Unless he’s expressing political opinions. Sort of like the Pope. Well, except for this current asshole. He’s always wrong.
My oven doesn’t hold heat long enough to make Jay’s suggestion work. So here’s what I’m going to do: 5 minutes a pound at 500°, then set temp to 300° and watch until meat reaches 125°. May eat early or may eat late, but eat we will.
The new BroTimMobile made its first long range voyage without a hitch. Now chilling at Atlanta brother’s ahead of the meal.
Happy Thanksgiving, all!
I hope Carin gets to talk to her seaman on Thanksgiving.
Shopping tomorrow?
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2021/11/wow-ill-be-off-for-some-shopping-after.html
great plan hs, will work great. make sure to pull early, carryover will bring the temp up as it rests.
Thanks Jay. There’s a $342 hunk of meat at stake here.
do you like it really rare? 125 is lower than I like for ribeye. I like about 132, with all the marbling. I’d pull at 120 to 123. lower if you want a little rarer
we just had grilled burgers and veggies. sat is our day this year. it was perfect anyway.
had coffee at the gas station today since coffee shop was closed. it’s actually better with their new machines. interesting
New machines must be clean. The real test will be when you get your Christmas cup.
haha I thought that buildup gave them character
anyone grind their own beans? wondering if a burr grinder is better than the blade on I use
I do on rare occasions but just use the blade thingie. I’ve heard the burr is superior from the coffee “experts”. We go through too much coffee to grind it daily although I do have more time on my hands these days and it may be a nice switch. I was just thinking of ordering some more coffee … it’s going to be whole beans dammit!
There was once a man from Nantucket …
https://tinyurl.com/3buf772h
I thought if I pulled my meat at 125° then let it sit it would raise to 130° which is my target.
I heard Biden got a benign polyp removed. He’s going to look funny headless.
Maybe I should pull my meat at 128°.
125 is good
What if my meat stalls?
After many years in Texas, and the Colorado fiasco, I am very glad to have a job, and it is close to my family, so I am more thankful.
Vman, much love to you as Florida Man.
do I blind bake pie crust for pumpkin?
too low of temp to stall that happens later
Lots to be thankful for today. In a perverse way, I’m thankful for COVID-19 today. It lead to getting the better half out of the PT facility from hell last night. Long story that involved verbal fighting with staff nurses, and other things. Short story is she has respiratory issues and yesterday the place discovered a COVID case in house. Not sure if it was staff or a resident, I’m leaning toward staff as the place has security that matches level 4 DOC. Keeping it short, I told them she’s going home, safer there than in a facility under a covid lockdown. Then the arguments ensued. Ended with my telling a particularly obnoxious nurse if she’d like to speak to my attorney it could be arranged. Anywho, she’s back home, gonna have a lobster and we’ll figure out the next step after the holiday is over with.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼Dave’s not here
J’ames, is asking for pie tips, NOW?
Oso got the passive aggressive mom text for Thanksgiving. We’re lucky that she has an issue that precludes her return to rehab. Multiple visitors before quarantine.
Hope it works out for you guys Dave, in the meantime you can’t go wrong with lobster!
Oslo, I swear I would pick you up in a bear hug right now. Dan too but you first.
I think Jay is having a Tardy Turkey Day this weekend. Waiting for the turkeys to go on sale.
Love you, too. 🐾
Saturday is our day. mom said no Thanksgiving this year, she’s too busy. closing on her sister’s house the first so she’s doing last minute stuff. sister in law and I are serving on Saturday. not sure if mom is a fan but oh well
cheesecake is cooling, pie is cooking. turkey done yesterday. just gotta pack up and go tomorrow
Dave’s not here, you might think about getting a home health aide or visiting nurse to help. Much better to be home than in facility from hell.
Find a pirated version of ATK pumpkin pie recipe online. It’s great because you prebake the crust and pour hot pie filling into it while the crust is still warm. Cuts the baking time a LOT by putting it all together hot to begin with, and that prevents the crust from going soggy. They also add some yam to it to improve the flavor.
I am happy with how everything turned out for Thanksgiving dinner. I am trying the Instapot method of making turkey frame soup (onion, celery, carrots, and mindful of the max level for water, followed by straining the broth, adding frozen mixed vegetables and some of the turkey meat). Nice to just hit the button and go do something else.
14.5 lb. turkey for five people, sent Rocketboy home with leftovers, some set aside for Mini-me, some for the soup, and some for Thanksgiving 2.0.
everything was good. i’m stuffed. Mess is mostly cleaned up.
Got into a heated thing about the vaccine with the vaccinated fam today. Wish I could listen to me as well as Pupster does.
*hangs head*
My mom was complaining that you pulled your meat too early, Hotspur.
Pay started into dangerous territory with Hannah today (and everything has been going so nicely) – about health outcomes of poor people (and she’s taken a LOT of classes on the subject1!!!!11). I walked behind her and gave him the stare of death.
He wrapped it up quickly and moved on.
Detroit has food deserts, you know.
I grind my coffee on the daily. Your mom says she likes it that way.
HAH!! BOOYAH
Detroit has food deserts, you know.
I understand. Every Connecticut city has areas where few shops can survive the environment of constant theft and armed robberies.
blade or burr grinder?
I’m sure Laura’s family all has advanced health degrees and Laura is convinced. curious on the car in family scuffle and which way that broke. could be either way with mama bear stare
Yea, Lumps – it was a wide open door for me to bring that issue up. Lots of grocery stores in Detroit have closed in the last 30 years due to theft.
But she’s emotional, and we were having such a good holiday. Stare of death ended his line of inquiry. Its not as if SHE brought it up, he did.
He deserved the bad-boy stare.
I just have a blade grinder.
…and in the case of large grocery chains, a former client of mine (who sets up grocery stores for a living) said that as soon as they express an interest in building on a parcel of land in an urban area, the community organizers descend to make sure they hire specific people and it’s a union shop and those specific people don’t have to work much and can never be fired and also those people will basically be running the place, not actual management. And the company will be donating to the causes that the specific people dictate.
It’s small-c communism. AKA organized crime.
hard to get ratio right with blade grinder, compared to pre ground. have to go heavier to get the right strength
gee, why do the inner city stores fail? must be racism
I blind baked the crust. already had the recipe and ingredients so couldn’t switch when stores were closed. not sure how hot filling works, have to investigate that.
I seem to remember a historical note about Ronaldus Magnus and his team examining the nature of the Soviet Union, and coming to the realization that it operated similar to organized crime. Take over an area’s businesses, drain them dry, and be obliged to then conquer more territory to do more of the same.
I used the hot filling technique for spinach-sausage quiche a couple times J’Ames and it worked great.
Poor people generally have bad outcomes for the same reasons that they have poverty, with some notable exceptions, pretty sure that’s, like, science ‘n’ stuff.
Leon, Hannah has taken many classes in the subject so I think we’re going to have to defer to her
She took classes where she learned about people who are impulsive, absorb their values from pop culture and criminals, have no plan for life, do not seek legal employment, and therefore live the shitty lifestyle that these habits earn?
Poverty is the result of systemic bad decision-making. Full stop.
Hannah has taken many classes in the subject so I think we’re going to have to defer to her
It’s not my family gathering. I’m related to poor people. Lots of things can cause bad choices that aren’t entirely in our control, and there are some genuine hard luck cases, but that’s not the way to bet.
If we had schools that taught truthful “How Not To Be Poor” classes, they would be burned to the ground by democrats after the first lecture.
Early to bed.
Early to rise.
Makes inner city Sam wealthy and high.
Or something like that.
Dinner at my step sons place. They did an awesome job.
One turkey done in the oven.
One in a deep fryer.
Pies.
Etc.
very nice time.
Paula bought our turkey last week and as I prepped it today I looked at the label for the weight to get an estimate of cooking time. It was 16 pounds but the thing that surprised me was the price, a little over $12.00. It was your standard bowling ball frozen turkey with the pop up timer but after hearing about all the shortages I was a little taken aback that it was so inexpensive. Must have been a loss leader to get shoppers in the store to buy expensive squash or something.
I’m home now hanging out with the dogs.
Heading back to the hood in the morning.
Pray for oso.
We were pieless but TBH I didn’t care because after a full breakfast at 1000 I was stuffed just with one plate of turkey/stuffing/mashed at 1730
Gonna try to get some discount turkey this week and make soup for canning and also some turkey bratwurst for the freezer.
We’ve been making Bobbies. Thanksgiving rolls around and nyet. Prime Rib and baked taters. Slept through 2 quarters of Cowboy football. Saints/Bills. CoW that was Bills Mafia moved to neighborhood market
MidWeekInPictures:
https://tinyurl.com/434bzx2k
Everyone proclaimed that my meat was hard to beat.
2 lb shop hammer will do the trick.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/l-firefighter-accused-despicable-act-010920215.html
If you don’t care to give yahoo the click, it’s about an LA firefighter who, when given his vax mandate letter of noncompliance, dropped trou and wiped his ass with it.
how did it turn out, HS? Did I do a good job cooking it?
Heh, looking to donate to the Salvation CRT Army?
Here’s my apology! —>
Pelosi moving to Florida? 25 million home? Retire, but you should have to stay in CA.
DeSantis should eminent domain her house and doze it into the sea. She has let Kalifornia be turned into a shithole and she should be made to live out her sad pathetic life in that shithole…
agree 100% chrisp!
*waves to Sean*
*waves back at jamjam*
Dartmouth’s experiments remain promising.