@femmefan1946 wrote:
Monday is Thanksgiving- so there's that. Will you be cooking or cooked for?
A friend was posting his Thanksgiving dinner- he's a bachelor and eats out a LOT- which was delivered by a local bistro and given the pictures will feed him and his cat until Christmas. (Well until Tuesday). His fiancee is stuck in the States for the time being and like most public servants he's working from home, answering phones for Service Canada.
Which is a suggestion btw. When we had been married for 25 years I informed the family of how many meals I had cooked and told them I would be declaring Pizza Night any **bleep** time I wanted in future. I have kept that promise for 28 years.
So for Thanksgiving, we will be going to Chinatown for BBQ duck and mooncakes.
What shade of blue? Something heavenly and ethereal or romantically indigo?
My partner is cooking turkey and squash, I did apple crisp tonight (and ate a nice big piece after dinner to make sure it tasted good - which I already knew it would), I'm doing cranberry sauce and stuffing tomorrow morning. We need the cranberries to be cool for dinner time and the stuffing should be done before the turkey (I do not put stuffing in the turkey), just because I have limited oven space.
I just hope my partner remembers to bring the turkey pan, but since we're doing Thanksgiving on Sunday, not the actual holiday, the stores will be open for me to buy a foil pan. He's dealing with a former vegetarian, and cooking turkey is not something I know how to do (hence, no pan here). My roommate/tenant made his famous chocolate macaroons because he wanted to do something too. He offered to make his carrot salad (which is cooked carrots, onion, green pepper, tomato soup, vinegar and sugar), but I said no, my partner is a vegetarian. (The salad is awful, no one likes it except him). We were hanging out in the kitchen pretty late tonight so I did carrot salad with cumin, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil. It's Moroccan, but no raisins.
The squash my partner put in my car before I came home today is about three feet long and scared me senseless... I think we will need to do two cooking batches of squash to get it all done. I don't subscribe to brown sugar on squash (diabetic), I do them like potatoes tossed in cooking oil with pepper and spices. It's very tasty. My partner buys squashes now because of how I cook them. BTW, I had no idea how to cook a squash, I just assumed it should be done like potatoes. I learnt about the brown sugar thing after.
So now you know my cooking secrets. 🙂
As for the blue, my bedroom is sky blue with indigio carpets. My roommate is opting for a more royal blue. We took home a paint sample after he picked something in the store, but went into his room in the evening and I showed him how dark his walls are going to be when the sun goes down. He wants to go to the paint store again which I've agreed to take him tomorrow morning as long as I have time for my cooking and the minor home reno stuff we're doing in the morning (washing wallpaper glue off his walls and putting putty in all the holes). On Monday I'm painting his closet door white. The previous owner decided everything in the room needed to be half green half white and it looks hideous. I'm glad I can buy some paint to give him a room he'll enjoy spending time in, with new hardwood floors too.
C.
