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BURP!!!!!!

T-day was good. Everything was ready on time and came out delicious. There were NO disasters (unless you count my forgetting to pull the baked yams out of the oven, but they weren't missed). The tequila and lime injection was a success, the bird was nice and juicy and had a nice tangy flavor. I managed to make a gallon and a half of gravy (the gallon baggy of turkey stock I'd previously made and the leftover potato water from the mashed potatoes helped hehehehehe). I hadn't thought of the potato water, but someone on the Good Eats board mentioned that Alton using potato starch flour to make the gravy instead of using the liquid from the mashed potatoes that was loaded with starch gave me the idea. The corn bread stuffing was okay, will keep looking for a good stuffing recipe for next year. The regular bread dressing in the crock pot came out well (a little too moist, I over estimated the amount of stock it needed). Hubby and our guest said it was tasty tho. The pies c

Count down continues

Got the fixin's for turkey day last night. Picked up a 23# bird and tossed it in the tub with cold water over night to get the thaw started. It is now half frozen in the fridge. Haven't decided if I will start any other prep tonight, maybe look at doing the corn bread for the stuffing to give it time to dry out a bit before putting it together tomorrow so it will just be a matter of pulling it from the fridge and stuffing the bird on Thursday. So the menu has finalized: Turkey shot with tequila and lime with corn bread stuffing slow cooker dressing mashed potatoes baked yams GF puffs gravy, lots and lots of gravy pumpkin pie with whipped cream My neighbor gave me some pumpkin so will not be using the canned variety. Should make for an interesting pie. I've a GF pie crust recipe I like so will use that. Trying my hand at making jerky with ground elk for a friend. She'd gotten an elk first day of bow season and we've been the recipient of some of the g

Probably should post something

Yeah, I've been a bad blogger, haven't really felt like writing anything on any of my blogs. Whenever I think I will post I just get "meh!" and find something else to do. So it is count down to Turkey day. We'll be picking up fixin's tonight. Since my mom and brother aren't coming out (after last years snow disaster they decided to play it safe this year and stay home) it will just be me, hubby and a friend. Also decided for a stripped down menu: turkey, gravy, stuffing/dressing, mashed potato, one maybe two other sides and dessert. Okay, probably isn't as stripped down from other years, but not planning on making quite as much of everything (except the turkey and gravy). I have LOTS of turkey/chicken stock from cleaning out the deep freeze and throwing all the poultry carcasses and bits and pieces into the stock pot last week. I'll be making a GF cornbread stuffing for the bird and a regular bread dressing in the crockpot for hubby. The snow w

NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Whimper!

Dad blasted cold!

is insisting on hanging on :( Just enough to make me slightly miserable with a runny nose and an annoying cough. Seems to be this year's bug de jure. Had some business cards printed up the other day for Purple Ducky Designs. I'm using the gallery addy since I've expanded into jewelry and art pieces. I figure that is a good site for people to then get to my shop page . Came out nice, but will tweak things a bit for the next batch. Text is a little smaller then I would like. Need to finish getting ready for Women's Arts and Crafts Fair (Women's Works) on Saturday (10am-5pm Eastside Market Place in Moscow). I need to come up with something to display the light catchers on and get more made. I'm pretty much out of materials for the earrings. Need to get more hard drives to take apart. Tried to talk our computer guy here at the library into letting me have all the dead ones he has, but no go. He takes them apart and does things of his own with them. Need to fi

Even more earrings!

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Since I was sick over the weekend and couldn't do much, I sat in my chair, watched movies, TV and NASCAR and made more earrings: I am also making light catchers: Need to find a better way to display and photograph the light catchers to show them off better.