Gator Pam

Your shirt was sent 11/12. It should have been delivered by now. I double checked the address and everything was correct on the shipping label.Well fudge. Still no sign of it.

Are contest winners still waiting for their shirts? I haven't received mine yet.

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Ruldoph Shiny New Year Ruldoph and Frosty's Christmas in July The Little Drummer Boy Frosty the Snowman Twas The Night Before Christmas Santa Claus is Coming to Town Nestor- The Long Eared Christmas Donkey Meiser Bros. Christmas Frosty Returns How the Grinch Stole Christmas Year Without a Santa Claus Whinnie the Pooh and Christmas Too Shrek The Halls John Denver and The Muppets

{{{elena}}} Peace be with you and yours. Remember, you are Loved. Both without. And Within. {{{<3}}

Materially, an iPad would be nice. But mostly I hope somehow Beorn chooses and manages to come out for a visit. It has been six months since I've seen him...

I usually focus on main courses for favorites. Thanksgiving Judy Rodgers three day dry-brined turkey, then roasted Alton Brown's Good Eats method. I do skip AB's brining, since I do the dry-brine instead. Hanukkah This holiday is about fried foods; not good for someone low carbing, but 'tis the season, right? If I can get a new rig out here (I seriously doubt Paul will ship me the one I own in Gator Town, even though he'll never use it), I may consider doing a fried turkey next year for my new family, if they'll let me, since Hanukkah falls extremely early in 2013 and Thanksgiving falls on the first day/second night of the festival. Chr-stmas Breakfast is one of several overnight french toast casseroles I have shared before. Dinner is all about standing rib roast with yorkshire pudding. While I don't worry about which rib I buy, etc., I do follow the suggestions of The Food Lab for dry aging (five days), salting (four days), and slow roasting followed by high blast of heat at the end. Absolutely wonderful stuff! Any planned overs is made in to beef stroganoff within a couple of days. Heaven. News Years I've never really gotten in to cooking for New Years, whether eve or day. I do that more for Rosh Hashannah. Perhaps that will change, now that I'm in a new space. Suggestions, anyone?

As part of the tickets I got for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra winter tour (first year they're doing The Lost Chr-stmas Eve, or so I heard), I was entitled to a free download of their new 5 song EP: Dreams of Butterflies (on a Chr-stmas Night) when it was released. I received the email on the 29th of last month, but only now had time to download and listen to it. Now I'm really psyched for the show.

After seeing those without power on the east coast, I'm thinking of stocking up on glowsticks to line hallways and stairs with at night. Has anyone seen glowsticks on clearance with the Halloween items? And does anyone know how long they remain viable left in a bag unused?

Thank you!!

I've never used hulu. How does one watch these shows on it?

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Besides the flavor, one reason why I love dry brining my bird and then using Alton Brown's Roast Turkey recipe. A 14-pound bird only takes about a total of two hours in the oven. I do dry brine instead of using AB's brine recipe, but his brine is good too. Watch the videos on the link, if you haven't seen the Romancing the Bird episode of Good Eats. Some great tips there. And I disagree with AB about stuffing. It's great, when made in the crockpot instead of the bird!

I'm in new circumstances this year, and not in my "own" home (although I'm told to think of it as my own), so I do not know what the tradition is here. When I prepared the meal entirely, I aimed for about 6:00 pm.

Dashing through the crowds GottaDeal shirt proclaiming Me: "Queen of Bargains!"

Line your cookie sheets with parchment paper before putting the bundles on them.Should help a lot with clean up.

I love the holiday commercials from Publix. From the first one I recall of the family traveling by train to a soundtrack by Pat Metheny, through the Pilgrim family salt and pepper shakers for Thanksgiving, to the magical leaf from grandma to grandson (I think), I have always loved those commercials. I've written Publix several times, both via their website and Facebook page, asking them to upload the commercials to their website. No luck in getting it to happen as far as I know, so far. Since I moved, I'll miss them this year...

1. "Attention shoppers! We have to recall all of these televisions as they forgot to put the nutritional label on them." 2. "Woo-hoody! With The Honey Badger's potential return next season, those discounted Mathieu football jerseys will be worth something eventually. Let me at 'em!"" 3. "...sigh. The l-trytophan from yesterday's turkey kicks in at the most inopportune moments..."

Ooo, that one does look nice.Thanks!

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I see the first post has not been updated with last year's Chr-stmas clearance dates. Did anyone keep track of them?

Keep in mind, at least at some Targets, every year pallets of seasonal items that never make it out on the sales floor before the holiday continue to arrive and are put out throughout the clearance cycle.

Not to worry about the Hanukkah shares, at least. I figured some people frequented here rather than the Holiday forum, so I was running a concurrent thread here. Last share (for this year) has been posted. Thanks for appreciating the thread.

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Reverse order of what I prefer to do, but since we ate out as the kitchen is really not in any condition for festive meal cooking, I had rib roast for Eve and seafood for Day. Eve was the bone-in 24+ oz rib roast at Cody's Roadhouse with their house salad with Bistro/Chipotle ranch. The servers call it different things; it is the dressing served with their fried green tomatoes and is not usually a salad dressing offering. But we find both their regular ranch and their blue cheese way too...mellow? Not sure why we don't care for either of those, but the bistro ranch works great. Also had a sweet potato with cinnamon butter, and a couple of rolls, also with cinnamon butter. The four of us (hyperception's dad is visiting) shared an onion ring stack to start. They are some of the best onion rings I've had. Server rumor, which was told to us at the same time as the rumor about TooJay's closing by two servers at two different establishments and turned out to be true about TooJay's, is that Cody's will soon be closing here in Gator Town. With the tough football season the Gators had this year, I can understand if they do, but we will hope they pull through, both for all the employees who work there, and for our own enjoyment. Day was spent at Amelia's Cucina Casalinga, where I was really tempted by one of the holiday specials of the braised large lamb shank: http://www.ameliasgainesville.com/images/menu_images/LambShank.jpg But, I wasn't in the mood for braised meat, and after the rib roast the day before, was in the mood for seafood. While not on the menu, I did see that they did a sauteed calamari dish and they did a shrimp fra diavolo, so I asked if a calamari fra diavolo was possible. Our server inquired if I wanted especially spicy, and when I nodded he ordered it as calamari arabiatta. I am not sure if the terms are interchangeable, but I do think of them as the same thing most of the time. One of the best versions of the dish, ever. The calamari was the most tender I ever had. I started with a bowl of Zuppa di Escarola, and the meal came with a house salad served with a house vinaigrette and bread bowl. Iced tea, of course. Overall, two lovely meals in good company.

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