23 lb turkey (the smallest of the 21 turkeys my mom raised this summer)(taking forever to cook, of course)
Saveur’s Multicultural Stuffing
Mashed potatoes with lots of warm cream and butter (Kate’s on starch duty this year; making both of the above)
Kale from my mom’s garden (olive oil and garlic)
Green beans (steamed — possibly the only dish [...]
The semester is winding down; today I’ll be turning in a 1500-2000 word article about Mayor Bloomberg’s calorie labeling initiative and then have a blessedly light load to carry in my head over Thanksgiving. My mom and stepfather are coming to visit for the long weekend, and after that, there’ll just be two more [...]
Finally, winter weather. I’m sitting on our couch, drinking tea and about to go start my at-work time, despite having been awake since 6 to spend some time on the phone with our offshore team in India. Outside, the birds have clued in to the presence of birdseed in our feeders, and the [...]
My grandmother died in her sleep last night. My mom called at 6:40 this morning to tell us, so the news is now mixed in with the dream I was having at the time, which only adds to the surreality.
I’m about to drive down to Boston, this morning. It wasn’t a [...]
It’s a bright sunday morning, and I’ve got that bleary, head-on-backwards feeling that comes from having been up most of the night. Some work which needed to be done during a maintenance window came up earlier in the week, and I scheduled it for last night at midnight. I’ve had relatively few of [...]