inventory

[the_siobhan]

Last month
* Went to xthlcm's and jin_aili's wedding in Maine
* Visited New Brunswick [1]
* Visited Nova Scotia
* Ate lobster and shark
* Started therapy
* Started acupuncture
Had Big Fun with markeris and mog_warbeast
* Went under Niagara Falls
* Drank bubble tea
* Saw a moose
Saw New Model Army
* Learned how to make two new dishes with squash and pears and nectarines and they were delicious.[2]

This month
* Tried dulce. Ew.
See the Von Drats in concert
Go to Stratford with bcholmes
* Go on a sailboat with my sister
Eat turkey! I love turkey.
* Learn to cook turkey! No idea what I'm doing! But how hard can it be?
Hook up with inulro and her man while they are in town.
Hook up with alchemuse and gwyrah while they are in town.

Next month
* See Nine Inch Nails with bcholmes [3]
Nanowrimo
50_ft_queenie's and mr_sharkey's wedding
Hook up with lee_chaos while he's in town
Hook up with amon_zero while he's in town
Hook up with mandor1971 while he's in town

Today
Did a load of laundry
Put clothes away
Made bread.
Applied for a job
Am now leaving the house to go visit my daughter



[1] * means something I haven't done before
[2] Soup and curry. Yum.
[3] I am led to understand this means I owe her another Ani Difranco concert.

Comments

[briarhill.livejournal.com]

If you can make bread, you can do turkey. Seriously. Idea is to get one that is not 24lbs - treat it like an oversized chicken. Best is to NOT stuff it - a: it takes longer to cook and b: it's not really healthy to do that anyway. Bake the stuffing in a dish on the side if you need stuffing. My favorite is to rinse a 10lb turkey inside and out - put a peeled, quartered onion in the body cavity, rub the outer skin with 1/4 lemon, then put that in the body too. Sprinkle pepper on the skin (not salt - that draws the juices out of the bird and dries it out) and put in the oven. Bake at 350F for about 1.5 hours - check at the joint of the leg. If it's still pink in between leg and body, cook longer.
If you like rosemary, sliding a spear of fresh rosemary between skin and breastmeat on either side of the breast gives great flavor to the meat and a pretty design on the bird. Just be sure to take it out when cutting.

Oh, and isn't New Brunswick lovely this time of year?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of the rosemary. I was thinking if I did stuffing I'd do something like brown/wild rice with nuts and mushrooms - that sounds more interesting than bread.

New Brunswick was gorgeous. We definitely want to go back, it's a lot closer to drive to than I ever realized.