Gang, if Paul and his better half are doing the cooking, this would be my first choice for crashing the party :)
cory, your post was lovely, sniffle, sniffle - wonder of anyone noticed the actual date today... a pretty significant one which is sad for some of us and of not much interest to others. Hint: 1963. As to Thanksgiving, Ashley and I are spending a quiet one at home.... more festive plans got foiled by my close friend's inlaws - but while it would have been wonderful to have a Thanksgiving dinner with one my closest friends and her family, I really don't mind missing the inforced joviality and so on. Oddly, the tradition of recent years was broken by another friend with many apologies as she and her sig other were invited out of town by one of his close friends. she was very relieved when I siad I honestly didn't care. Then her partner manged to injure himself at his work and they are not going anywhere. I had lots of time with close friends last weekend - and I loved it but it tired me. I took another friend to dinner at WHole foods last night. I made Turkin soup two days ago to have today... but instead went to Whole Foods and bought all the trimmings, but not turkey. Then I walked to Chinatown and bought half a fully cooked duck. I made myself a southwest version of Peking duck using blue cornmeal tortillas I had in the freezer instead of Manderin pancakes. I decided it was a great day to work on my internet stuff - pics and ebay sales and catch a few Scrabble games on line. The neighborhood is luxuriously quiet with all the NYU kids gone off, and the weather is a bit too nice for now . I have lots to be thankful for -- good health, good friends (even if my closest ones are not in NY right now) my sweet kitty cat, a roof over my head. And a new cell phone - alas, much too fancy for me, but it was necessary as I drowned the old one when I was up in the country for saturday and Sunday... I paid almost nothing for the new one, but I had to do a 2 year contract to get it. My friend in the country gave me a lovely present of a 500 gig external hard drive! thats my Thanksgiving report - boring as hell have one or two pesos to post later back to ebay ann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've tried the breast down method. It works well, but turning over a big bird >is a hassle. The high temp method is at 425 degrees for around two hours for a >14 pound bird. But I check it with a temperature probe and roast to 165 >degrees. The breasts are as moist as with the breast down method. Gourmet mag >did a test of about six methods a couple of years ago. They were absolutely >certain that the high temp method would yield awful, dry meat. But it turned >out to be the best. I put fruit or veggies in the cavity, but just a couple >for a loose fit. This year I used two lemon halves, a few sprigs of rosemary >and about half an onion. I coated it inside and out with olive oil, then >applied a fennel and peppercorn rub to the outside. That probably doesn't >affect the meat much, but it does great things for the pan drippings, from >which I make gravy. I also make stock from the gizzards and neck. Combined >with the pan drippings and just a bit of heavy cream, it makes a great gravy. >Paul > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
