Remember a couple of days ago when I said I’d be splitting for a couple of days but I never left? Well, this time I’m off to Scramsville for sure. Here’s a thanksgiving dinner to tide you over the weekend. See ya Monday. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.
23 comments
yankee transplant
January 4, 2007 at 8:38 pm (UTC -6)
Enjoy the break. Hope you’re off to do something fun.
Kwillz
January 4, 2007 at 9:26 pm (UTC -6)
When you come back, can you tell me what that dish is? It looks yummers.
scratchy888
January 5, 2007 at 2:13 am (UTC -6)
please eat plenty sadza. Be careful the kachasu. Avoid boomslang.
PhysioProf
January 5, 2007 at 10:07 am (UTC -6)
The blob at 7 o’clock is clearly some sort of mashed yams. The solid piece between 5 and 6 looks like maybe fish.
BubbasNightmare
January 5, 2007 at 10:15 am (UTC -6)
Kwillz
“When you come back, can you tell me what that dish is?”
I see an interesting-looking roll (bits of green herb?), green beans striving mightily to resemble asparagus, mashed sweet potatoes/yam (squash?), some sort of chicken-fried chicken patty (I’m probably dead wrong there), a bit of salad (greenery identity lost to resolution lackitude but with a suspicious-looking crouton), mashed potatoes with buttery-yellow attitude, and something in the back right-half of the plate that looks like chunks of turkey.
Twisty
“Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”
That all depends. What won’t you do?
scratchy888
“Avoid boomslang.”
Wise words.
schatze
January 5, 2007 at 1:00 pm (UTC -6)
Sometimes you can’t avoid boomslang. Sometimes it finds you.
FamousSovietAthlete
January 5, 2007 at 6:40 pm (UTC -6)
The blob at 7 o’clock is clearly some sort of mashed yams. The solid piece between 5 and 6 looks like maybe fish.
I’m seeing scrambled eggs at 3. This is thanksgiving?
Pinko Punko
January 5, 2007 at 8:27 pm (UTC -6)
I think TF lives in 24 hour daylight, because everything is tastefully lit by said lighting. I think this should be the first and foremost criticism of IBTP: TASTEFUL LIGHTING. Some of us are swaddled in inky darkness and our delightful food creations do not look as good.
PhysioProf
January 5, 2007 at 8:59 pm (UTC -6)
“I’m seeing scrambled eggs at 3.”
I thought it looked maybe like cornbread. The woman I live with thinks it is mashed potatoes.
johnieb
January 5, 2007 at 9:01 pm (UTC -6)
I see a perfectly gorgeous vegetable dinner.
FamousSovietAthlete
January 5, 2007 at 10:20 pm (UTC -6)
I thought it looked maybe like cornbread. The woman I live with thinks it is mashed potatoes.
You both have excellent points, and you’ve inspired me to rethink my entire scrambled eggs hypothesis.
I believe that everyone here agrees about the existence of vegetable matter on that plate, but is anyone else starting to wonder if the scrambled eggs/cornbread/mashed potatoes business isn’t actually a gigantic, lightly fried dumpling of some kind?
Then again, it could be sadza.
PhysioProf
January 6, 2007 at 10:04 am (UTC -6)
“scrambled eggs/cornbread/mashed potatoes business”
When I woke up this morning, I thought, “Grits!”
hedonistic
January 6, 2007 at 4:32 pm (UTC -6)
I need to know how she makes her pictures so purty. Mine never turn out that way.
j
January 6, 2007 at 6:14 pm (UTC -6)
hedonistic, Photoshop works wonders.
Unrelated: Today I had to nod quietly and smile while my friend told me she wouldn’t vote for a woman president because God created men and women to be different and there are certain things women shouldn’t do. The venue of this conversation made explosive indignation impossible at the time, but I now hit the blame button as I have been wanting to do all day.
MzNicky
January 6, 2007 at 7:15 pm (UTC -6)
johnieb: So what’s that fried-up thing? Looks suspiciously like chicken to me.
And, okay, WTF is “boomslang”?
physioprof: mmmmm. grits. oooohhh. With plenty of cheese and jalapeno pepper.
Pony
January 6, 2007 at 8:05 pm (UTC -6)
Grits? Ok but what’s to each side of it/them? On the left I think a nice piece of grilled whitefish. What kind would that be, from Austin Texas? Then of course mashed sweet potato yum. But what’s that balancing on the green beans? A roll or a real little baked potato? My tomato sauce hasn’t finished cooking but when it does, it’ll be on plain ol rigatoni.
BubbasNightmare
January 7, 2007 at 8:26 am (UTC -6)
In re: boomslang–
Wikipedia is your friend.
cypress
January 7, 2007 at 12:54 pm (UTC -6)
“envenomations” – hmmm maybe Twisty writes wikipedia articles in her copious free time.
KTal
January 7, 2007 at 8:23 pm (UTC -6)
I wouldn’t be surprised if Twist writes wikpedia pieces, like any athletic pursuit, good writing requires constant practice.
How’s the weather around where you folks are? I’m up the in the northeast and its been creepy warm. I am thinking about starting a build project (I do contracting) that was planning to start this spring.
yesterday it was nearly seventy, today it was in the sixties. It is January. Usually in the single digits day and night around here. For me, economically it might be good to have the warm weather, but I don’t like the future the warmth seems to portend.
Ron Sullivan
January 7, 2007 at 9:14 pm (UTC -6)
Don’t be eatin’ the boomslang. Ain’t no damn chicken.
(Somebody’s got to speak up for the venom-enabled.)
Sylvanite
January 8, 2007 at 7:26 am (UTC -6)
Yes, the warm weather in the northeast seems to be confusing my crocuses terribly. It doesn’t help that the squirrels keep uncovering them, though. I should hide nuts in the mulch, they nose around so much. I don’t know if they’ve actually eaten any of the bulbs I’ve planted; they don’t seem to be digging that deep.
grrr kitty
January 8, 2007 at 8:58 am (UTC -6)
It’s been freakishly warm here, too, but I fear our luck’s about to run out. I think there’s snow in the forecast for tonight, but I’m a little west of you northeasters (I’m in Ohio). So it’s like the monkey said when his tail got caught in the lawnmower — it won’t be long now.
barlyru
January 8, 2007 at 9:39 am (UTC -6)
Mother may I eat that photo?
I’m already salivating just looking at it.