It is quiet here in the office, everyone left as soon as they could to scurry off to the airport or drive across country to visit family. I have family right here locally, so there is no rush. It is both a good and bad day, which is weird, but true. Have a new laptop that I am using right now, but I had to beg them to give me the old one back too, since they won’t transfer my itunes music. So, off to the best buy I go, to get an external HD tonight and transfer my 1,100 songs. I will hopefully have a ipod soon and have them there as well. I always knew this was a bit risky, but I didn’t think it would come down to almost loosing several hundred dollars and 2 years worth of music and begging the IT guy for a laptop back. Just when I was getting the hang of it.
I also will be elbow deep in turkey tomorrow morning. Helping with the annual ritual of turkey cooking, although they don’t trust me to cook alone, I might accidentally blow the kitchen to pieces. Yes, we kill flightless birds twice a year just because they can’t get away. I am not really much of a meat eater, but for the holidays, sure. I also can’t stress enough the use of Poultry Seasoning in stuffing. NO ONE uses it, and it says Poultry right on the flipping container! Get it together people, your stuffing will taste like dried bread if you don’t use this.
Anyway, that’s enough cooking advice for a cooking challenged person. You can trust that the recipie linked above is good, because my mom’s family has been making it since the 1930′s when my Grandmother was working as a maid/nanny in OakPark and learned it from a cook she worked with. So maybe that is what I’ll be celebrating this thanksgiving…? My polish/ukranian immigrant family’s ability to come from potato farmers to maids and blue collar workers to white collar secretaries and engineers and now marketing analysts. All in 4 generations. It is the American Dream. Caio!
