autumn

I love the hat and coat too but what about his legs! OMG so long.
and wonderful long fingers and his jewelry....sigh, I think I love him.

autumn

would some one please tell me what the georgeous boy at the end says?Amitabh can say what ever he wants! blush..

Dragon

Dragon is officially sick of winter (and yes I know technically it's still a month until the first day of winter but tell that to all the snow on my car.)
Yesterday my home province of Alberta had the distinction of having 6 of the 10 coldest places on Earth, my home town of Calgary was number 2. I'd thank God I don't live there anymore but I'm really not that far away and it's hard to be smug when it's -32 outside and you have to scrape the frost off the inside of your car windows because it's just too cold to form on the outside.

Baldur

Brrrrrrrrr ..... sounds like it's time to break out the hot cocoa.

Happy Thanksgiving to my listening audience in the United States.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Joey Chestnut, Jenna Bush, Barbara Bush, Donovan McNabb, Christina Applegate, Amy Grant, Bruno Tonioli, Bucky Dent, John Larroquette, Percy Sledge, Ricardo Montalban, King Tuanka Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail of Malaysia, August Pinochet, Joe DiMaggio, P.D. Eastman, Onishiki Uichiro, Harvey Spencer Lewis, Pope John XXIII, Carrie Nation and Andrew Carnegie.

marius

Holey moley Dragon ... -32 Celsius is -25.6 Fahrenheit! The coldest temp I ever experienced was -11 F, or -23.8 C. Makes me shiver to think of that kind of cold. Well, hope you stay warm and that the cold does not last long. Goodness!

Baldur, see how great line dancing can be when you add a lovely jacket and hat! Very much enjoyed that video.

And speaking of Thanksgiving, marius thought she would read about Baldur's feast for this year. Did she miss it? Our feast will be smallish this year and that is fine. But ... here's my question for the Baron d' Boughbreak: what is the best way to get fudge out of the pan?

The reason for this question is that Marius has a lovely gentleman friend who lives in a nursing home. He likes only two desserts: chocolate fudge with walnuts, or apple pie. As marius has never made apple pie, she decided her friend will get fudge for his Thanksgiving Day treat. So, last night she made fudge ... for the first time in thirty plus years.

It was very fun to make and it was eerie too because as the fudge was boiling away, memories came back: the feel and look of the insert pan of the double broiler that Mom said we had to use, my brothers eating the fudge in very short order even though I made fudge almost every other week, making fudge in winter when the contrast of the cold outdoors and warm aromas of chocolate made me happy, sitting on the floor beating/stirring the fudge because that was the easiest way to get leverage.

But ... this morning? When I got the fudge out of the refrigerator ... oh heavens. How did I get the fudge out of the pan? I do not remember ever having trouble getting it out of the pan, but that is ALL I remember.

Now I did manage to pick out one piece this morning and it came out fairly easily and neatly but the process didn't "feel" right. What am I missing? Also ... last night as spouse watched me stirring and stirring the fudge, and getting tired and asking him too take over a bit, he said, "Why can't you use a mixer to stir the fudge?" Well, erm, I don't know. We always used a wooden spoon and arm muscles. Can one use a mixer to stir fudge? Thanks in advance for any enlightenment that Baldur, or others, may be able to provide. And by the way, the fudge tastes divine! : )

Happy Thanksgiving back to you, Baldur, and to all at Channel Baldur!

marius

too -o = to : )

Normal

Happy Thanksgiving to all the American cousins on TD!

My sympathies, Dragon! Coldest I've ever been was -40 once in Montreal. At that point it's -40 in both C and F. Dog hit the apartment stoop and froze in position, obviously thinking, "Maybe I DON'T need to go out!" (We went.)

The other Montreal fun was the bus drivers who automatically went on strike each year at the first really serious snow fall. Talk about having the populace over a barrel. At least Dragon has lots of hunkering down for the season know-how!

Baldur

Baldur sees no reason why one couldn't use a mixer to do the stirring when making fudge. A flat paddle or even a dough hook attachment would be the way to do it.
I line a square baking pan with aluminum foil and then turn the whole mass out onto a cutting board when it has firmed up. It has never given me any trouble.

Baldur

OK by popular demand here is the 2010 Boughbreak Thanksgiving Day menu, as prepared by yours truly:

Deviled Eggs
Ripe olives
Warm dinner rolls* with butter
Roasted Turkey
Bread dressing
Gravy
Cranberry sauce
Mashed potatoes
Pickled beets
Roasted butternut squash with olive oil and rosemary
Buttered peas

Cabernet Sauvignon
Pinot Grigio

*****
Gingerbread bundy cake with lemon sauce
Peach Cheesecake
Chocolate Cream Pie
Pecan Bars with Brown Sugar Meringue
Coffee
Tea


*Why are rolls/bread a necessary part of every holiday meal?
Baldur served rolls today under duress, thinking that they were totally unnecessary with all the other carbohydrates on the table.
People did indeed eat them, but why?

Baldur

Baldur also has taken to serving canned jellied cranberry sauce.
I make wonderful cranberry orange relish and a fabulous cooked whole cranberry sauce with a jellied effect. No one else will eat them.
I have surrendered and now serve the nasty cylindrical jellied mass.

Baldur

#8092
bundy - y + t = bundt

Dragon

Dragon wonders if you could line the fudge pan with wax paper or parchment paper instead of foil? I'm not sure if this would work with hot fudge going onto it.

Dragon does believe rolls are an essential part of turkey dinner. The reason is because I always take an excessive amount of gravy and absolutly could not let it go to waste, one must have a roll to sop up the extra gravy on ones plate.

I want to move to Missouri with marius and live where -26 C is considered some serious cold. (Actually I want to move somewhere where the locals laugh at you in disbelief when you tell them about frozen water falling from the sky). -26 is definitly cold but fairly standard around here for winter. Normal has me beat, I'm sure I've seen a -40 day but they are not common here. I've heard that Montreal can have some absolutely punishing winters, but I've also heard that it has hot, sultry summers and is beautiful to see. I'd love to go sometime.

Dragon

I find it scandelous (sp?) that no one will eat the homemade cranberry sauce! I can't believe that people would choose the can shaped glob of cranberries over freshly made. My mom used to make homemade cranberry sauce and it was wonderful, it ruined me forever because I alway think of it whenever I'm somewhere else and the canned stuff comes out. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the canned stuff by any means, but I would take homemade over it any day.

polenta

Hey, inside my freezer the temperature must be warmer! How can you stand that? Here the temperature is about 20º Celsius or 68 Fahrenheit these days . I think it's ideal. When in winter we have like 0º Celsius or freezing temperature I feel SO COOOOOLLLLLDDDDD!
Baldur should carry out a survey asking about the ideal temperature.........

polenta

My ideal temperature is from 15º to 20º Celsius or between 59 and 68 º Fahrenheit.... and of course if it's not very humid.

Baldur

Parchment paper or wax paper would also work under the fudge. I remember my mother cutting a disc of waxed paper to line the bottom of her cake pans. This was back in the days when using parchment paper in baking was unheard of by anyone who wasn't a professional cook.
Certainly some of the melted wax made it into the finished product, but no one was concerned about such things.
In fact Baldur's mother sometimes made a chocolate fudge that contained an amount of paraffin. There is also the fact that paraffin added to melted chocolate will raise it's melting point allowing one to serve chocolate dipped strawberries and such on sweltering Summer days.

Baldur

Baldur loves Winter weather but would be content if the temperature never dipped below 20F. Lots of snow is essential.
Summer heat is horrible and I dread mid-June through mid-September. I would be happy if the temperature never exceeded 75F.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Natasha Bedingfield, Cicciolina, John McVie, Jean Terrell, Wayland Flowers, Tina Turner, Rich Little, Boris Yegorov, Robert Goulet, Charles M. Schulz, Frederik Pohl, Eric Sevareid, Lefty Gomez, Bat Masterson and William Cowper.

Hazer

A couple of years back, we spent Christmas with all of hubby's family at a beautiful lodge in northern Saskatchewan. It was the coldest Christmas I could remember. The temperature dropped to -43C. We could have spent the day cuddled up by the fireplace, but when we saw Hubby's Dad heading out the door we quickly decided he shouldn't be out there alone. There was absolutely no wind so we were quite comfortable dressed in our layers of clothing. My father-in-law made a log fire on the edge of the frozen lake where we could warm up. We had a wonderful time sipping our coffee and hot chocolate from thermoses. The northern boreal forest was stunningly beautiful clothed in hoar frost and sparkling like diamonds in the bright sunlight. The snow crunched under our feet and we could hear the sounds of the ice cracking like rifle shots coming from the river down in the ravine.
It is one of my favorite memories! Of course no one's vehicle would start and so those that had planned on leaving that day had to change their plans and stay for the night. The next day it warmed up to -27 and it felt quite balmy by comparison.
Great memory of a fun time.