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Let’s start with naming something we are thankful for: Me, it would be a roof over our heads and food on the table for three meals. My daughter would be FOOD! Yep! That simple. Of course, she’s thankful for her family and pets, but mostly food.  The plan for today is to cook the turkey parts. Remember 170 and 175 F for your bird. Thank you FoodNetwork.com…. I don’t stuff my bird. That just doesn’t sound appealing to me. I don’t like Emergency Rooms on top of that. I serve dressing on the side. The bird went in at ten and I am planning to put the Candied Sweet Potatoes in at 11:30 so they can get warmed and the marshmallows can get cooked. At 12 the other sides will go in. Corn will be heated on the stove.  The Ultimate Bean Dip got scratched. For something bought, Antonia bought two dips from Kroger. A Mexicali Dip. It’s Southwestern spicy and French Onion. We also have a block of cheese that can be cut up and served with crackers if we wish. I will be doing video c...

Here we go y’all, the final push until tomorrow. I hope y’alls cooking is going well. Please feel free to post below and let’s share ideas with each other. That is the great thing about these platforms compared to sites with chefs. The music I was listening to is by Michael Monroe. You can’t really hear it on the video because I turned the volume down. However, for coypwrite reasons, I am acknowledging it. Here is my playlist with Michael Monroe: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuMUWWx0mLcz4DT0AYgGLAlJCM09KDOz My plan for tomorrow is this: Cook the bird with white meat pieces together and dark pieces together.  Once the bird is almost done I will put the sides in to warm them up. Except for the sweet potatoes which I will have to put the marshmallows on it. As I go through the day I will be doing short video clips to share with yall how our plates look.  Thanksgiving 2019 Links Juicy Thanksgiving Turkey in 1 to 1 ½ hour  Whippoorwill Holler https:...

Alright y’all, we are into day three of our Thanksgiving countdown to the final Thanksgiving of this decade. Today we checked the Turkey one last time. It is dethawing at a safe pace. Placed I added some ice in the canner for it. At this point, I just want to keep a stable temp and it’ll be done by tomorrow.  Side number two is candied sweet potatoes with pecans. OMG! These are going to be delicious. Thursday I will add the marshmallows on it when I bake it off. I had to use molasses because I forgot to mix the sugar and molasses together yesterday. This was an opportunity to show another way to produce brown sugar. Remember the less molasses you use the lighter it will be. I personally like dark brown sugar.  Tomorrow the final day will be more content because I will be doing more and Antonia will be home so the cat can bug her. Actually, she is going to do the bean dip, she just doesn’t know yet. Yeah! This was last-second decision as two seconds ago. I forgot to c...

We are three days away from the final Thanksgiving of this decade. WOW! I can’t believe another decade is almost over. Here we are getting ready for the biggest feast day of the year… Over the next couple of days, I am going to share how I will be lightening up my load by breaking up across four days. Yesterday we took to turkey out of the freezer to unthaw in water. Set it aside then secured the lid. Okay! I had to do that part off of the camera. Today, we checked on the turkey and dressed up the dressing. I used homemade stock and fancy butter. No, I am not kidding... The first time I bought the butter it was on sale and I thought why not. I went to buy Friday and it was back at the shockingly horrible price of $6.99. I peeled my jaw off of the floor and moved back to the Kerry Gold. It was marked up as well. So, I got to blocks of the Private Selection French Butter. Cheaper at $2.49, now this is the butter I use for simple uses. I just like it better. While we were at Wal-Mart ...

This is the last Thanksgiving of this decade. It went by so fast. I hope you find this plan to be useful and work for you. I will be including links below to Whippowillow where I came across a video showing how to cook a turkey in 1 and ½ hours instead of 4 to 6 as we usually have to wait.  Below will be links that I am going to use for this years meal. I will be doing daily videos on what I am doing on that particular day. Last year I cooked Thanksgiving for the first time in my life. I cooked a small chicken and this plan worked beautifully. I will never stray from it. I remember how stressed out my late mom would be every year at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year. The cooking she did was good, but it seemed overwhelming. Because it was. She made everything she had to do from scratch and some of it she bought.  Here is a list of what I am assembling: Dressing, Mini Cherry Pies (except dough), and Cheese with crackers. Keep in mind I already made the pie filling...

Yesterday there was a shooting in the complex where we live. IT WAS NOT A STAGED EVENT! I want to make that clear. There are so many events where we see what looks like people shot and the next day we see video clips of them in a trailer afterward talking on the phone like nothing happened. Because nothing happened. This is a shame that these events are used to justify gun control. Anyway, this wasn’t one of those. There were two officers shoot and released to their families to recover. The tenant was taken to Toledo Ohio for surgery. He is secured by law enforcement. Where did this start? How did it escalate to the point the tenant actually thought it was okay to shoot human beings? I can answer the first question easy. The tenant has been a pain in the butt to maintenance employees. This happened to be the day when pest control was scheduled to come out and spray. The tenant didn’t want the guy from pest control in his apartment. The tenant threatened the maintenance guy. The ...

Okay, I don’t know if they had the KFC potato bowl thing then but here is how it probably would’ve looked like if they had. Use leftovers! That is another thing that makes this dinner so awesome. If you have leftover chicken, mashed potatoes, corn (we didn’t use it) gravy, and cheese this is a great way to use them.  In your bowl, layer potatoes, chicken, gravy, corn, and cheese. Heat until cheese is melted. Then enjoy. It is awesome and you can use it as a way to get your fridge cleared out by using everything. Your kids will like as well.  Today is a soup I am not sure about what kind of soup though.  https://youtu.be/DD1AOerEUXc

That is no joke y’all. We can’t go two feet without a camera watching us. Yet children still go missing without a trace... Please explain that one to me. We have been seeing our rights and liberties disappearing every day and not one person says a word. In the documentary Aaron Russo did America: Freedom To Fascism, there is a clip where he points out that Supreme Court Justice Emmit Sullivan ruled on August 31 of 2015 that the government doesn’t answer to the people rather the people answer to the government.  Let that sink in for a minute. It took me by surprise the third time I saw the documentary. The arrogance of a government to say something like this isn’t a surprise. To put it in writing, however, is a shock. How long do we continue until we stop and say “Hell No!”?  Why do we set back until someone like Edward Snowden or Mark Klien retired tech from AT&T comes out and shows us what our government is doing, we get mad at the messenger, not the message. Our curr...

Taylor Wiliams went missing from Jacksonville Florida. There is not much information on who she was seen with. What kind of car they were driving? I will include the Amber Alert Poster below. Remember, don’t try to recover a child on your own. These finders are working for powerful people who pay thousands of dollars for kids. The abductors have a lot to lose and that will make them dangerous. Unless you yourself are in Law Enforcement, Military, or you are in a position where you could, if needed, take hands-on action, don’t. Simply take a pic of the child with the adult, the car they are driving, and then call the police.  Here is her poster and the video link will be below as well:  Taylor Williams   http://www.missingkids.org/poster/AMBER/30347/11600/screen https://youtu.be/zn8ztRUerzg

Monday   1940's Meal with leftover chicken Tuesday Soup Wednesday  MYOTO (Make Your Own Take-Out) Burger & Fries Thursday Burrito Bowls Friday International Meal Of Course, Saturday and Sunday my daughter works part-time so we keep it easy. Last year for the first time I cooked a bird for Thanksgiving. I used Ina Garten’s plan and worked beautifully. Below will be a link to Ina Garten’s video she did when she first shared her tips for a Stress-Free Dinner Party.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vclLavhukM My video will be at the link below: https://youtu.be/YAuTwoZ4c_I

That is a loaded question. I found this article on the Foreign Policy Journal with that as the title.   David Swanson made a great point right out of the gate. If the House and Senate really wanted to impeach and remove Trump, he would have been gone on day 90. So then we have to ask ourselves what to hell do they really want. Exactly what has he actually done to be impeached? Spy on his opposition for the next election? No! That was Nixon. Has he worked with both Iran and Iraq during their eight-year war… No that was Regan. Did conspire to increase military presence to the point of all-out war in Vietnam? No that was Johnson.  So what has Trump done to impeach besides being an arrogant ass? Nothing. The fact is this is just theater for their voters. To make it look like they are doing their job and deserve the taxpayer paycheck each week.  Missed Opportunities Let’s look at the missed opportunities the House and Senate have had to impeach or get rid of Trump a...