Mmmm, I'm making a kind of turkey pot roast dealie and it's filling the house with delicious and homey smells.

I had to alter the recipe a little bit from the version I did last week, but I hope it comes out as well. Just thinking about how good it was is making me salivate.

Are you using an entire turkey? Or a turkey breast?

I had an Italian Beef, fries and a Greek Salad. It was good but pot roast sounds so much more tempting.

Are you using an entire turkey? Or a turkey breast?

Turkey thighs, which I can only find at Safeway. But it's a lot of meat fairly cheap, has the big thigh bone to make the stock richer and I actually prefer it to breast meat. Two thighs gives me all the meat I need.

Last week I used a veggie stock bouillion cube to start the stock and then added more of the vegetarian French Onion stock I like. I was going to make soup but I kept cooking it down and adding garlic and some brandy and it came out so richly flavorful. Anyway, I started with a can of chicken stock and thinned it out with an extra can of water just to get it going.

Smells good!

Here's a recipe that's pretty similar to what I'm doing, sumi.

I keep falling asleep 7pm. not good, but I am not going to fight it. taking the laptop to bed.

OMG, I just saw the ad for the movie where Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah have to work together to save a small-town choir. Do I see a choir field trip in my future????

That does seem like it would be tasty and not difficult. (Although I wondered about the point where they said something about removing the chicken and I wondered when was there chicken??)

will one of you come over and cook/bake with me tomorrow? The family I thought we were having over for New Year's is not coming, so I don't have that to cook for anymore, but I want to get some food made.

What temp do people keep their house at in the winter?

I will! I get off work at 1, so I should be there by 6?

I keep my house freezing -- like 65ish, but that's because I have the window open a lot for smoking and I pay for my heat.

It's hard and strange knowing you are seeing someone for the last time. I knew I was in the same room as my aunt for the last time when I went up there last summer. There was very little question of that (she died a month or so later) but we made like that wasn't the truth. Despite her being basically bedridden and on killer painkillers, it was as normal a visit as we could manage. It was good. But getting on that plane later, I was a weird mix of happy, sad and denial. I'd just had the most wonderful day for the worst of reasons.

ION, lungs are really not up to par, much as I'm pretending otherwise. I kept getting the goosebumps and muscle aches like when I hold my breath to the limit...about every other lap. And they were slow laps, despite my best effort, I just didn't have it in me to bump it up to my usual pace.

I need to vacuum under the bed more than every 6 months. OMG, the cathair. Took almost an hour to get it all up and I still am thinking about borrowing my neighbor's dyson to see if that can get absolutely everything up, just once.