Laura--
That's not Wbua Q. ZnpQbanyq'f Genivf ZpTrr obbxf, is it?
jhlipton--
Number one is Hefhyn X. YrThva'f Gur Yrsg Unaq bs Qnexarff. *g* Only saved from being Znel Tragyr Tbyqra Jvgpuoerrq by the snow.
Number two is everything I read for class in junior year of college.
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Dear Writer--
May I note that your prose clunks, your narrative doesn't, your plot is improbably, and your characters aren't? Also, people in 16th century London didn't generally swill single malt Scotch from pocket flasks. Just saying.
Sandy--
The sequel to Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned is the _other_ half of Les Mis retold in South Central.
And yes, it is also good.
Socrates Fortlow 4evah!
It seems to me that more people should act their age the way you do.
Excelsior!
This was on NPR today too. I didn't manage to find time to track down the link between banging my head against the keyboard, though.
You know, I am having a "Larry Niven Was Right" moment. I don't get that many of those.
It occurs to me belatedly that if kosherness is at issue, olive oil or schmaltz are to be preferred to buttah.
What James said about the brining and also the butter under the skin. That's what mine has suffered. (Also a nip of scotch in the body cavity concurrent with the stuffing process.)
There is, however, no trick the equal of the brown paper shopping bag for a perfect turkey every time.
Tak ye one paper shopping bag (that without ink or print is preferred) and do slit the bottom, so that ye may slide yt over both turkey and roasting pan entire.
Roast as one normally would.
It helps maintain moisture in the breast without preventing the skin from browning.
Also, for a 19 pound turkey I'd go 4.5 hours and then check for doneness--if the wings fall off when wiggled, it's cooked. (Jena Snyder uses this method for chicken as well, but I tend to think it results in a dryer bird, and prefer to high-roast butterflied chickens at 500 with butter under the skin and a meat thermometer for doneness, a method that (sans butter) also works admirably on duck.)
Please note that moisture-saving techniques (eg, the butter or the paper bag or both) are essential when using the "It's done when it falls apart" rule.
Chicken stock or wine may also be introduced to the pan while roasting, for additional moisture.
Oh dear. Teresa, Patrick, I am very sorry, for you and your neighbors.
Shock and adrenaline trembles seem to me like a perfectly rational reaction.
Were we using the thermohaline cycle for anything?
And Rita just set a record for pressure drop. Ten millibars in an hour.
The bathroom's on the right? Good to know. Good to know.
Feeling a bit like a bowl of petunias right now....
There are Puerto-Rican style hot sauces (like the one I make) that are, in fact, vinegar infused with chile peppers. They taste nothing like tabasco.
PJ, those sound like bird peppers, which I think are very similar to piquin peppers, and which you can get through Penzey's. Itty bitty cone shaped red suckers?
Mmm.
Yes, use sparingly. *g*
Mm. Somebody mentioned Matouk's; it is indeed awfully nice, though incendiary. And can be used in place of red chili paste to improvise Thai hot and sour soup.
A very nice home-made hot sauce can be made by soaking ancho, habanero, bird, and black peppers in a combination of heated cider vinegar and a dash of balsamic vinegar, with some salt, rosemary, and as much fresh garlic as the trade will stand. This does not generally go bad if refrigerated, and yields some of the very nicest pickled garlic you'd ever care to thwart romantic advances with.
Yum.
I once peeled the skin off my hands with a batch of scotch bonnet peppers, having absentmindedly touched the cutting board after taking off the gloves.
Soaking in a mixture of milk and beer does help ease the agony, should one miscalculate.
Tying together the folk song and Katrina threads, a bit of salient pardody:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/katallen/110898.html?#cutid1
Let words fail you again:
this reprints a survivor's account of what it was like on the ground in New Orleans.
Oh, and perhaps the most important tip of all.
Sleep late.
Nothing good every comes of any encounter that takes place all in the morning, early.
Tim:
Addenda: be kind to cabin boys. Especially when they have drills.
Mr. Ford: That's beautiful. Just beautiful. It brought a tear to my eye...
The bathetic fallacy isn't.
Xopher--
Depends on who you listen to. ;-)
You also get "Saddle for me the good grey steed / the big horse is not speedy" and a bunch of other variants.
One thing about ballads. If the variant you're looking for doesn't exist when you started, it will when you're done.
Bluid-red steeds are also a lookout.
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