marius

Goodness - Baldur! You must have a special time-slowing machine to do all of that in ONE day! Heavens. However, bet you will be having much fun and will be listening to wonderful music while you bake and clean floor! Am thinking Baldur will have a spiritual experience today, making all that food!
: )

Robin - LOVED the thing about bears. And, the announcer was so funny!
Thanks!

Baldur

OK, another update from the kitchens at Chez Baldur
The turkey has been cleaned, it is seasoned and in the roasting pan, tomorrow morning it will get popped in the oven.
The dressing is also done, just needs to be reheated
the turkey necks and giblets are being simmered right now, to make gravy.
the turnips are peeled and cut up.
the Amaretto cheesecake is finished.

Robindcr8l

An update from the kitchen of Chez Robin: The turkey was done 2 weeks ago. The dishes are all done and put away. The bottle of wine is ready for the pouring. And the nap is scheduled for 3pm mountain standard time. My son should be on his way to his Dad's by 2pm, giving me enough time to nap before work tomorrow! Tonight, it is pork chops and mashed potatoes for the two of us, although I'm not a lover of pig meat in any form. My son really likes pork chops, though, so I very occasionally play the martyr and eat them for his sake. No good smells wafting from this kitchen though, tomorrow. We already HAD ours!

Dragon

Dragon is wishing she lived a little closer to Primrose RI and could manage to do a little party crashing!

marius, the announcer of the bear thing was Rick Mercer. He's quite well known up here and has his own show 'The Mercer Report' which I can never seem to catch. I know him better from the days he was on 'This Hour has 22 Minutes' (a spoof news program). He used to do a bit that we found hilarious (though you guys might not so much) called Talking to Americans where he'd go down to an american city and come up with something ridiculous about Canada then ask people what they're opinion was. Some things it's pretty understandable that the americans didn't know what he was talking about but some were just insane. He once went to a Naval Port city and told them that Canada was considering starting a Navy but since we're landlocked we'd like to share US Naval ports and asked what people thought, everybody was very positive about us using their port including the Governor of the state, it didn't seem to occur to them that Canada has ocean on 3 sides. The best one was where he asked George W. Bush (then running for president) if he was happy to have the support of Prime Minister Poutine. W. said he was very happy to know PM Poutine was on his side, geuss he didn't remember that at the time our PM was Cretien (Poutine is fries with cheese curds and gravy on it) hehehe

maddyjean08

Dragom, that sounds funny! Your guy's Thanksgiving dinners all sound sooo delicious! Baldur, that Cheesecake must be just fabulous!

Dragon

Here's an off topic question for anyone out there who has an answer. I'm making up some information to put on our whiteboards at work and I'm topping each category with the title of a Christmas carol or some lyrics. (So the bit about Christmas trees is topped with O Christmas Tree and the bit about guests is Oh Come All Ye Faithful etc...)
I'm having trouble thinking of a title for the bit about Christmas dinner. Try as I might I can't find a song about dinner or turkey or feasting.
Does anyone know a song title or a line of lyrics that might fit? It has to be fairly short to fit but I'd appreciate the help.

matthew

Peter, Paul & Mary did a song "Christmas Dinner"

matthew

all I want for xmas is my 2 front teeth?

matthew

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire?

matthew

home for the holidays?

Qsilv

Wassail !

Baldur

From 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'

Then he slid down the chimney. A rather tight pinch.
But if Santa could do it, then so could the Grinch.
He got stuck only once, for a moment or two.
Then he stuck his head out of the fireplace flue
Where the little Who stockings all hung in a row.
"These stockings," he grinned, "are the first things to go!"

Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most unpleasant,
Around the whole room, and he took every present!
Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums!
Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimney!

Then he slunk to the icebox. He took the Whos' feast!
He took the Who-pudding! He took the roast beast!
He cleaned out that icebox as quick as a flash.
Why, that Grinch even took their last can of Who-hash!

maddyjean08

Oh, I like that!

Baldur

the brussels sprouts have been prepared,
as have the pastry wrapped Spanish olives and
the deviled eggs
the mincemeat crumb squares smell divine, but then Baldur spiked the mincemeat with rum
I've prepared the white sauce for the scalloped potatoes
So far I've peeled and sliced all of the onions for that and half of the potatoes
the roux is prepared to thicken the gravy with (in the morning)

Baldur

Robert pulled an elegant silver and glass coffee carafeand warmer out of some closet and spent some time polishing the silver parts of that.
I had intended to use the Spode coffee server, but didn't know we owned one of these.

maddyjean08

ooh, so perfect! My Thanksgiving won't be as perfect, not if I have to protect my toddler brother from my dad....

Baldur

Dragon, maybe you need a Baldur carol
Here let me compose one on the spot

There is no place like Chez Baldur for holidays,
Believe this for no matter where you roam
Though you'll find delicious meals at your Grandma's house
Will it be served by a garden gnome?

Here there is stuffing that is better than the turkey is
and potatoes bubbling in a sauce
Baldur assembled thorny branches tall as he is
it's unsafe to reach across.

Though you thought you hated brussels sprouts
out here they're not the same
and the brightly polish teapot spouts
shoot steam that spells your name.

Heap your plate with pie and rum balls
drink your gravy from a mug
you should plan to stay til spring calls
give black friday a big shrug

There'll be pie and wine and jelly
cranberries, eggs and rolls
great stuff to fill your belly
or to stop up any holes

If you find your plate gets dirty
grab another piece of Spode
there's enough to eat off thirty
before you hit the rode

matthew

Let me compose a critique on the spot...

... ummmm...

...The lobotomy didn't work correctly...

matthew

...I love the way my monkey seems to be looking up at the previous post when I type my replies...

Baldur

maddyjean, what are you talking about when you say that you need to spend the day protecting your toddler brother from your dad.
If you are seriously telling us that your father would hurt your brother you need to contact someone who can help you. This is a very adult matter and you need help with it.