Shoe Advice from a Shoe Designer

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtq-0W6ir9At7B8s5INDkBw

Glory Days of the ECR Marching Band

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krBW8-Jebf4

Thanksgiving 2021

Monday Night, spatchcocked and dry-brined the turkey, so it would have three days in the fridge.  13.5 pounds, local bird.

The day before Thanksgiving I needed to pick someone up at a train station three hours away.  So, the day before prep was in the hands of the two college aged kids at home. 

• Made cornbread for the stuffing using the NYT browned butter recipe.
• Made traditional raspberry jello with sour cream.
• Much housecleaning to prep for holiday.

Thanksgiving day:

• Made a meat gravy to go with it for the first time, using the neck and backbone.  all Kenzo Lopez recipe, Serious Eats.
• Roasted and peeled Poblano Peppers for Vegetarian Main.
• youngest made pie crusts.  
• Yams cut and boiled for marshmallow yams.
• youngest made Molasses wheat rolls, recipe from Budget Bytes.  Nice for a change, but let's do more plain/traditional next year.
• cooked sausage (both kinds) and sauteed onions, peppers, and celery for dressing.

Turkey went into oven at 11:15am.   While the Turkey roasted, we made:

• Vegetarian Main: Stuffed poblanos with quinoa, vegetarian sausage, salsa, beans, and kalamata olives.  Topped with homemade enchilada sauce and cheese, baked while turkey rested.
• Mashed potatoes
• Cornbread dressings mixed: sausage, sweet purple pepper, celery, onion, sage, broth.  Two versions: pork sausage vs. vegetarian sausage.  
• Cranberry sauce: 12 oz cranberries, 1 cup water, 3/4 cup sugar.  

• This year we added orange zest to the finished sauce.  
• Next year, divide the sauce in half, and so there's a bowl of plain and a bowl of orange-flavored.
• Family member with own place brought baked Brussel Spouts dish and roasted Delicata Squash dish.  yum!
• youngest made 3 recipes worth of vegetarian gravy.

Turkey finished at 12:25 (Meal was planned for 1pm, so this was a little late).  One of us delayed arrival, so turkey rested until after 2pm.  I put a dishcloth over it and then several layers of aluminum foil sealed.  Turkey temp at carving was 135F.

We all sat at the new table for feast!  

After dinner, went for a walk.  

Leftover Turkey: ~6 cups.  Made 10 cups broth in pressure cooker.

Youngest made pie filling and baked pies, which we ate around 8pm.  

Day after Thanksgiving.  Spatchcocked and roasted second turkey!  Organic Butterball, also about 13.5 lbs.  Family members working Black Friday workers finished work in time for dinner, and could enjoy hot Turkey, with leftover sides.  ~16 cups of meat from second Turkey.  13 cups broth made from this carcass.

Fall 2021 Clothes

Interesting jewelry and cashmere-silk scarves. I love the ones with a lurex thread, but those are only in two colors that don't suit me. https://chanluu.com/ 

 Excited by a Mountain Hardware fleece in a blurple color. 

Still look for teal-green pants, coat, dressy tops. Everything will be leprechaun green this year, but I want something slightly bluer and softer.

Quality "designer" bags under $500 list price.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXE4PHdFms

I like:

• Coach
• Furla
• Yuzefi
• Wandler

Also mentioned:

• Kate Spade Michael Kors Longchamp Strathberry

Interesting dress site.  The dresses are polyester blend easy care.

 https://www.karinadresses.com/pages/size-guide-2020

vermont parcels

https://vcgi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=213ab08f71664c8b80b029cbd0044cc1

Water tomato daily okay

https://dengarden.com/gardening/How-to-water-Tomato-plants-the-right-way

Could become a vegan pineapple upside down cake cobbler?

http://goodbadfood.org/2018/02/17/sourdough-pineapple-upside-down-cobbler/

Vegan but not PBWF
adapting from

Sourdough Pineapple Upside Down Cobbler

1/2 cup coconut oil
2/3 cup turbinado sugar
1 can crushed or sliced pineapple, drained )what size can?)

2 cups sourdough starter
2/3 cup turbinado sugar
3/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda

Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Put the butter in a 9×13 pan and put it in the oven to melt.

Meanwhile, mix the sourdough starter, turbinado sugar, and salt.

Remove the pan of melted butter from the oven. Sprinkle the turbinado sugar evenly over the butter, then place or spread the pineapple on top of the sugar.

Mix the baking soda into the sourdough batter, just until mixed, then quickly pour the batter over the pineapple.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.