Semi-Daily Journal

Over here the menu is jam tomorrow, jam tomorrow, but never jam today.

Isn't that why Nellie gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done she gave her father forty-one:

She was fed up with the menu?

Evelyn Waugh once commented that his relative's book Turkey: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow sounded like a description of Christmas. (Or, translated into the American, Thanksgiving.)

Enjoy your meal :)

No turkey club sandwiches on pumpernickel? I would cheerfully trade turkey cacciatore for turkey club sandwiches on pumpernickel.

How big was your bird? That's a lot of turkey.

all that tryptophan loading can't be good for productivity.

next year maybe cook a smaller bird or invite more people over.

Ah, what is that compared to the danger of another four years of the Big Turkey in the White House?

Ah, what is that compared to the danger of another four years of the Big Turkey in the White House?

Ah, what is that compared to the danger of another four years of the Big Turkey in the White House?

Ah, what is that compared to the danger of another four years of the Big Turkey in the White House?

Yeah? And where's the recipes??? All those meals and not one recipe? Dang, Brad.

A turkey is for Thanksgiving,(or Xmas), not for life.

Spam, spam, spam, spam and spam.

Spam, spam, spam, spam and spam.

Turkey Chow Mein!

My family's post-Thanksgiving tradition:

Turkey Mole: Get a jar of mole paste (the kind that comes in a jar is better than the kind that comes in a can. Doña Maria is pretty good, and often available in supermarkets.) Dissolve the mole paste in a saucepan with enough broth (chicken or turkey) to make a nice thick sauce. It takes a while to get it all reconstituted. Add sugar until it tastes good. Add shredded leftover turkey. Invite friends over. Eat with tortillas, salsa, guacamole. Drink beer or margaritas. You can also make mole from scratch, but you have to be a psychopath to want to after cooking Thanksgiving dinner, and the stuff in the jar is really pretty good.

For Thanksgiving dinner, carve half the turkey and serve it. After dinner, cut off the meat of the other half, divide into 1 or 2 pound sections, package carefully and freeze. In two or three weeks (or months), that fresh baked turkey will taste mighty good and unexpected. The leftovers from the first half of the turkey will be used up too quickly to bore the inmates.

I strongly recommend turkey enchiladas.

Get a good chicken enchilada recipe and substitute turkey (I like the white meat for this).

I hope everyone had a nice holiday.

The coming election is not going to be won by expressions of contempt for the young Bush: he is not contemptible, so people who go that route are silly on the face, not in the game, ineffective electorally.

If the Republican bunch of crazed incompetents are to be thrust out of power it will only happen if there is an alternative vision -- the vision thing -- which presents a broad optimism as an alternative to the good-guy-ism on which this bunch cruise by.

The central optimitc visions of our time are exactly two: the sci-fi one, which HG Wells satirised in one of his books, where everybody is connected to everybody in mental-transfer-tanks; and the more practical one, where the peoples of the world have at least the bourgeois amenity of Europe in the 1920's.

Both are obviously achievable. I prefer the second.

-dlj.

How about turkey soup? Goes great with some wild rice.