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[Figgy1]

Stuffed spaghetti squash

 

[Figgy1]

Smoked sausage

 

[Figgy1]

Pickles and Brussels sprouts w/bacon

 

[donaldtoo]

Just got back from Thanksgiving in the kiddos back yard, and it was wonderful...!!!!!!!
Aunt Sassy (our youngest DD Sarah) is off from school and has been tested for Covid (negative) so she’s hangin’ out at their house and her apartment for now. So we’re now distancing from each other, and she took the closeups off Emmy. We ended the night by watchin’ about the first 30 mins. of “Elf” on their backyard screen...!!!
Hope y’all all had as wonderful a Thanksgiving as possible, considering this crazy year...!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

I started to do so as well. All because somehow a lot of the clothes now use Chinese sizing. Which is 1 size difference in a big way.

Yep, when I worked at the men’s clothing store, that was pretty much the situation there too. So glad we never had online sales. We had wedding parties buyin’ suits all the time. We sized everybody and had an on site tailor on the weekends. We also sold slim fit, modern fit, and full fit suits and shirts. Customers came in and tried stuff on. Our tailor could make any adjustments needed, and all our slacks came unhemmed, as a customer may be taller than the next, but, have the same waist size. So almost no returns ever needed to be done.
That was actually a pretty fun job. Dudes loved how good they looked in the stuff we sold, and that was cool...!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

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[donaldtoo]

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You know me, I’m a palm tree guy...!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

And, dear Lord, how much did that trip mean to us...!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

This is beyond cool. The British paramedics are using a personal jetpack to lift them to mountainous terrain rescues. So much faster than trekking in to the injured. (Really interesting video, even if you only have time for 2 1/2 minutes, of the 5 minute video.)

@FutureCEO in particular, I figured you'd love this, since it's British. (P.S.: Hope your new job is going well.)

UK Air Ambulance Service Tests Paramedic Jet Suit - JEMS: EMS, Emergency Medical Services - Training, Paramedic, EMT News

The future is now? A test pilot recently flew to a simulated casualty site on a mountain in 90 seconds. It would take 25 minutes by foot.

www.jems.com

That is so cool it’s beyond cool...we’re talkin’ cool on top a’ cool with extra cool sauce and a dollop of cool cream...!!!!!!!
Everyone can be down about humanity all they want, but, I just can’t be...EVER...it’s not in my dna...!!!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

We could never keep a year's worth in my house, my pantry has it's limitations

Apparently, a pantry too...!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

Ftfy

Yep, it’s funny how many ‘round the world don’t have a clue how they’re payin’ for what their payin’ for.
NONE of that crap is FREE...you’re payin’ for it one way or another, wether your politicians blow the “We’re just tryin’ ta’ hep you!” smoke up your rear or not...!!!!!!
Just more fun for me to watch every election cycle from a distance these days...!!!!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

Alrighty gang, out for tonight, and sooo very much to be thankful for, and chuckle about, and life’s a crazy assted hoot...!!!!!!
Sweet dreamin’/mornin’ to all...!!!!!!!
LATERRRRRRRRRRR...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[wdwfan4ver]

Thanksgiving meal and Pumpkin pie tasted great, but my parents got lucky they got an extra electric hand mixer. My mom used an electric hand mixer for pumpkin pie yesterday and the speed part of it broke with it not able to do all the speeds. That electric hand mixer that had something broke was used since the 1990s at least.

The meat from from Thanksgiving turkey fall apart. All the side dishes were great.

 

[Songbird76]

OMG those dinner rolls look so good, and that pie looks like a professional baker made it --good job

Thanks! The pie's appearance is totally E's doing. She did the edge and placed all the leaves. We have a maple leaf cookie cutter and I used a knife to make the veins on them, but she was the one to make it actually look pretty.

I think next time with the rolls, I'll just butter the tops and maybe sprinkle them with seasalt instead of doing the honeybutter glaze. I loved it, but my husband said he didn't like how sweet it was, it didn't match the rest of the dinner. So we'll try that next time. But they are SO soft.

 

[Songbird76]

Please send some airmail!!

Sent, but I don't know if packages between the US and Europe are allowed right now. It may not be edible by the time it gets to you!

 

[Lilofan]

E and I made pumpkin pie last night and I made rolls this morning. I've never done dinner rolls before, so I looked up a recipe on the internet and tried it. They are SOOOOO good. I had to try them while they were still warm.

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Those pictures make me want to cheat on my diet for a day , or two.. For now I'm just dreaming it tastes delicious in my mind.

 

[Songbird76]

I'm 1.65 and google says thats 5'4?

No...it says 5.4 feet...not 5 feet four inches. There are 12 inches in a foot, so .4 is around 5 inches. I'm like 5 foot 5.5 inches. I'm probably closer to 166 cm, I guess.

 

[Songbird76]

Making a turkey br myself... I have it brining in the fridge for later.



Can you point me to the recipe you used? I've been testing recipes for the last 3 weekends... and haven't found my goldilocks recipe!

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/soft-dinner-rolls/ There's a "jump to recipe" button to skip all the intro stuff. My husband wasn't happy with the honeybutter glaze, because he thought it was too sweet, so next time I think I'll just use butter. But I like a little saltiness, so I might sprinkle them with seasalt, kind of like they do with pretzels, but not so much. But they were really soft. I did have to tent them with tin foil when I rotated the pan, because they were already a nice golden brown and were only halfway through baking. But it said in the recipe you could do that if they were browning too fast, so I tried it and it worked really well. They came out pretty perfect. I had also never used the bread dough hooks on my mixer, but I will use them more often now....soooooo much easier and less messy!

 

[Songbird76]

Both pies, cranberry bread, and part 1 of stuffing was finished yesterday. Turkey is in the oven, gravy and green beans I will start closer to dinner. DS said he will take over mac and cheese. I found a recipe to make it in the crock pot, and it all gets dumped in. Cranberry sauce is jelly from the can. I found out a few years back, I was the only one who likes it with actual cranberries. And rolls. DD requested Pilsbury crescent rolls. Makes it easier.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Sounds good! We don't do cranberry sauce because none of us like it. They don't have the jelly stuff over here anyway. I finally found Stovetop Stuffing about a month ago and bought 10 boxes of it....it was sold out again a week later. Everything else I have to do from scratch because they don't have any of it here. No canned pumpkin, no gravy mix, no pie crusts. I thought about doing the crescent rolls because that's the only kind you can get in the can...dinner rolls don't exist here. But I wanted to try to make regular rolls from scratch.
Would you mind sharing the mac n cheese recipe, please? I have yet to try my crock pot and the recipes we've used for mac n cheese have not been a success. I'd like to try something different.

Anyone have other crock pot recipes they love?

 

[Songbird76]

@StarWarsGirl the most important part of today after wine

@OhanaOwl