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Nov. 29th, 2010 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infryqThis year's thanksgiving was the best ever. It could have been better by the addition of more family; we'll make up for it at christmas.
Wednesday most of the office went home early; I stayed until 5 or 6 to finish building a dataset that was being ornery. We've been trying to find a sustainable way of collecting and organizing this data since February, and have finally decided to punt and hand-pick each part of each schema of each data source. Augh. Maybe we'll try again when there's less time pressure from our grant.
Thursday morning we went out for milk. Milk and eggs. Milk, eggs, and oranges. Milk, eggs, oranges, and ice cream. And coolant for the car. But no currants. Then we went home and sat on the couch watching other people make turkeys on the Create channel. Paul made some bread. I made a layout for a christmas card and located photos of us from the year. Around 7 we collected the bread, some sauerkraut, hot pepper relish, and beer and went over to Rapier's on the north side. It was full of people, booze, cheese, and many strange and delicious things(todo list: make miso-pickled garlic. Make miso, even). There were two turkeys, a ham, a leg of smoked roast lamb, at least two kinds of stuffing, homemade mac&cheese, two kinds of cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, roast squash, and of course P and I mostly sat by the fireplace in the kitchen making bruschetta on a toasting fork and handing it to people as they floated through. It was nice to see Charlotte and Derrick there; it was nice to see Gwen and Shadow there, it was nice to see that one girl there who is always suspiciously familiar; it was hilarious to see someone explain Rope Pride to Chris' mom. Home around 11.
Friday we didn't buy anything. I cut up a chuck roast that had been sitting in the fridge waiting for a free day, seared it, stewed it with onions and mushrooms and a head of peeled garlic cloves, 1/4c roux, half a bottle of wine, a little baggie of dried rosemary, and the last quart of the lamb bone stock for 3 hours. For the 4th hour I took it out onto the stovetop on low, cranked the oven, and roasted two big carrots, two truly enormous parsnips, and a couple of potatoes. Mixed everything together once the veggies were caramelized. It's... intense.
Saturday we went to squirrel hill and walked from Allegro (great bakery) to Te Cafe, where I replenished my loose tea supply and chatted with the dude about oolong and milk-fermented teas, to the crazy gift shop by murray grill that I'd never actually been in before (did you know they sell some rudimentary hardware supplies there? Pliers and things! Seriously!), to CTR for coffee. Te gave me a free morrocan mint tea. Nice guys. Then I sat under blankets at home with a heating pad and the video recordings from Neil's Graveyard Book reading tour, and finished sewing all the buttons on the duvet cover I started back in the spring.
Sunday I reorganized the pantry, finding homes for the little bits of ingredients that tend to hang around in bags and, thus, get pwned by moths. There are a lot more containers than I thought there were, which is cool. And now we can find things. It's like you open the door and there's an array of food. Then in the afternoon we watched the game and had Dani over for craftiness. I'm still thinking about what sorts of decorations I want to put up for the holidays; we're not going to have a tree, but I do like greenery. We'll see.
P and I still need to finish the huge table in the basement. A little sandpaper, some beeswax and mineral oil, and then find somebody burly to help us move it up to the dining room... freeing up two craft tables for use elsewhere in the house (exciting). I have to wait until that's done before I start disassembling the painted-over hardware in the kitchen and taking all of that back down to the metal. Hate paint. I don't know what possesses people to paint over hinges and drawer pulls and the like. It's ridiculous.
Wednesday most of the office went home early; I stayed until 5 or 6 to finish building a dataset that was being ornery. We've been trying to find a sustainable way of collecting and organizing this data since February, and have finally decided to punt and hand-pick each part of each schema of each data source. Augh. Maybe we'll try again when there's less time pressure from our grant.
Thursday morning we went out for milk. Milk and eggs. Milk, eggs, and oranges. Milk, eggs, oranges, and ice cream. And coolant for the car. But no currants. Then we went home and sat on the couch watching other people make turkeys on the Create channel. Paul made some bread. I made a layout for a christmas card and located photos of us from the year. Around 7 we collected the bread, some sauerkraut, hot pepper relish, and beer and went over to Rapier's on the north side. It was full of people, booze, cheese, and many strange and delicious things(todo list: make miso-pickled garlic. Make miso, even). There were two turkeys, a ham, a leg of smoked roast lamb, at least two kinds of stuffing, homemade mac&cheese, two kinds of cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, roast squash, and of course P and I mostly sat by the fireplace in the kitchen making bruschetta on a toasting fork and handing it to people as they floated through. It was nice to see Charlotte and Derrick there; it was nice to see Gwen and Shadow there, it was nice to see that one girl there who is always suspiciously familiar; it was hilarious to see someone explain Rope Pride to Chris' mom. Home around 11.
Friday we didn't buy anything. I cut up a chuck roast that had been sitting in the fridge waiting for a free day, seared it, stewed it with onions and mushrooms and a head of peeled garlic cloves, 1/4c roux, half a bottle of wine, a little baggie of dried rosemary, and the last quart of the lamb bone stock for 3 hours. For the 4th hour I took it out onto the stovetop on low, cranked the oven, and roasted two big carrots, two truly enormous parsnips, and a couple of potatoes. Mixed everything together once the veggies were caramelized. It's... intense.
Saturday we went to squirrel hill and walked from Allegro (great bakery) to Te Cafe, where I replenished my loose tea supply and chatted with the dude about oolong and milk-fermented teas, to the crazy gift shop by murray grill that I'd never actually been in before (did you know they sell some rudimentary hardware supplies there? Pliers and things! Seriously!), to CTR for coffee. Te gave me a free morrocan mint tea. Nice guys. Then I sat under blankets at home with a heating pad and the video recordings from Neil's Graveyard Book reading tour, and finished sewing all the buttons on the duvet cover I started back in the spring.
Sunday I reorganized the pantry, finding homes for the little bits of ingredients that tend to hang around in bags and, thus, get pwned by moths. There are a lot more containers than I thought there were, which is cool. And now we can find things. It's like you open the door and there's an array of food. Then in the afternoon we watched the game and had Dani over for craftiness. I'm still thinking about what sorts of decorations I want to put up for the holidays; we're not going to have a tree, but I do like greenery. We'll see.
P and I still need to finish the huge table in the basement. A little sandpaper, some beeswax and mineral oil, and then find somebody burly to help us move it up to the dining room... freeing up two craft tables for use elsewhere in the house (exciting). I have to wait until that's done before I start disassembling the painted-over hardware in the kitchen and taking all of that back down to the metal. Hate paint. I don't know what possesses people to paint over hinges and drawer pulls and the like. It's ridiculous.
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