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June 2009 
What was the last thing you wondered about?
Posted on Nov 21st, 2008
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tinkonthebrink
tinkonthebrink
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for November 21, 2008:
Why in the world do people actually voluntarily eat turkeys? Why isn't there a holiday where we all eat dark chocolate and strawberries until we're about to burst, or how about roasted potato day? I think these look particularly look great, and this is one of my favorite food sites even though almost everything she makes is something I don't really eat because I've somehow evolved into the world's pickiest eater which no one who knows me would ever have thought possible. For this recipe, though, I only have to substitute for the butter, and I usually go for coconut oil but this one might be better with olive oil....
There might be something of more significance than the mystery of turkey-eating, but that's what I'm on about at the moment. Who knows, tomorrow I may have questions about lint.
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Did you see the Sara Palin interview with turkeys being slaughtered in the background of the shot?! Yikes, enough to put one off turkeys for life.
Have you read, Bittersweet Journey; A Modestly Erotic Novel of Love, Longing and Chocolate? The author, Enid Futterman goes to the chocolate capitols of the world and explores. Part adventure, part self-discovery, part recipe.
I love potatoes!! roasted ones, baked ones, mashed ones, even sometimes raw ones. I like them with butter. with olive oil. with rosemary. with sour cream. all alone plain. I love potatoes. that's actually my favorite part of thanksgiving – pototoes. yum.
george – when I was a kid we lived in northern minnesota the year that I was in 8th grade. we lived only about 7 or 8 miles from my step-father's parents. they had room for chickens. so we raised some chickens that summer all the way from chicks. my brother named them and adored them. then —– my step-father degreed one day that it was slaughtering day. I'm not sure if that's what he called it but I vividly remember my brother's trauma as one my one my stepfather chopped off the heads of each of those chickens, waited til they stopped squirming about then dunked them into a vat of very hot water and instructed us kids and mom to defeather them. I also remember that my step-father's mother decided to serve chicken for lunch that day and how my mother told me that even though I had no appetite I would eat every bite of chicken that was put on my plate so as not to be rude. and I would say thank you very much a smile. what a day.
I still actually like to eat fowl of all kinds. I wonder how many people would still eat chicken and turkey if they had to slaughter it themselves.
I eat less meat than I ever have in my life, but I still eat it and when I do I say thank you, quietly to the being whose life energy I am ingesting. and I realize that meat is an indulgence and that it is a resource intesive food.
Anthony Bourdain, devoutly disdainful of all vegetarian folks as he is, visited Ted Nugent on his show No Reservations and was pretty clear about thinking that hunting your own food down was nutty. I don't really get that dichotomy there, although I adore Anthony Bourdain and yet don't eat meat so I guess I've got my own dichotomies going. And I do think Ted Nugent is a bit odd, no argument.
I would not eat chicken if I had to kill the chicken. I wouldn't eat turkey regardless, just because I think it tastes awful and is dry and nasty no matter how it's cooked, so the turkeys are safe.
But oh my goodness, I would scoop up sea urchins and carve out their innards and have myself a feast. And oysters aren't safe from me either. I guess I have a little bit of a double standard for animal welfare.
I love hunting down and killing my own chocolates. No problem there.
Actually, it didn't take long for me to get used to it at all. I don't feel nutty.
Perhaps a little fat around the stomach, but.
That book sounds heavenly.
Love the dark chocolate covered strawberries idea!!! :) And Wonderer… you cracked me up with the “I love hunting down and killing my own chocolates.”
I'm going to have to check out that book… I love these kinds of finds… they are usually fabulous!
Oh my my eyes just had a epicurean orgasm,one look at potatoes and I want me some. They are so versatile and the skins are sooooooo delish esp the baked potatoe ones,yummmmmmmm
I feel a latke breakfast coming on.
I'm afraid to watch that Sarah Palin interview but I'm going to pursue the book recommendation…
oh, and those potatoes are every bit as yummy as they look. We just had some for dinner with a very thick hot veggie soup and oh my…my new fave potatoes.
Now I'm going to go hunting down some chocolate I think.
I'm sure that eons ago, there was a “chocolate day”, and was called “Thanksgiving Day” …..a day that chocolate was it's main course. But due to the rambling off at the speed of light and other confirmed congestions, it was then decided to take it in smaller dosages and they now call it, “Thank God” for chocholate, instead:-)
I am running down tomorrow to pick up my chocolate hunting license! I wonder what the limit is? Fave potato recipe is the Swiss version of a potato pancake! Yum! Way too much butter and served with fresh eggs. Stupid doctors who think they know everything say I can't have those anymore. Dang.
i think turkey is pretty dry and tasteless myself. I like all the stuff that goes with though, especially the stuffing.
Dark chocolate and chilli……………….great after double baked potato…giving thanks for the visual feast which filled my mind…..thanks Jeannie
I just have to add, those potatoes are even better made with sweet potatoes cut into wedges, all the same stuff otherwise but I added a little curry…I only like sweet potatoes spicy and crunchy, not sweet and mucky ever, and these were amazing. Might be my new favorite go-to winter munchy food. The way the mustard seeds pop in the mouth like little bits of caviar, mmmmm.