ETA in IL 5pm

I ran into sarah Cochran in the normal airport and got to hold her youngest. They are also newly homeowners with two young boys on Christmas vacation.

ILL....inois!

Hoping!

I'm at the airport 3 hours early so as to NOT miss my flight. Let's hope I make my connection in Denver.

Good year for concerts. The third one was today -- Mt. Pulaski's Christmas Concert. They sounded good.

In IN

Lunch in London

7:30 PM

That's not an eta: η

Just leaving now. Eta is +10 +-

ESSO: Do you have an eta?

Tenaha and Corrigan TX are NOT random.

are the TX Ohler Christmas cards being mailed from random towns throughout the drive?

At the company christmas party.

Underway.. now in Nacogdoches

Veronica vacuumed the whole house today, did the last of the straightening, just need to do a last clean up of the kitchen. I'm sitting and enjoying the looks of a neat house. Of course I'll probably mess up part of it before anyone gets here.

Oh, I forgot I told my kindle to send that. What a pleasant surprise.

Oh hey, ao, pack that one in your suitcase and bring him with.

you want moist turkey, use a blender.

The two articles I just read on why not to brine said what Nathaniel did about the loss of flavor in brined turkey. The recommendation I found most interesting was to cook the turkey unbrined. While it rests make a pan sauce from the drippings. Then when you carve it -- cut up the breast meat first and soak it in the pan sauce. You get moist, flavorful meat.

Hey oh, I cooked the turkey this year.
Bout time. The cynic in me says they brine
it so they can sell you a 10 pound turkey
and a pound of water for the price of 11
pounds of turkey. It can keep the turkey a
little moister, but it's water not fat
juices, so it's a less flavorful moisture.
I got an oven baking bag to keep the
juices in instead, worked superb. I
stuffed two peeled and halved oranges,
rosemary, thyme, and garlic inside, and
slathered salt and pepper on thick on the
outside.

if I had to guess about the pre-brining I would say to help keep them longer. This turkey was one of 650+ delivered to work and there was a bit of dust on the top of some of those pallets. It is a fun process to stand out in the cold and hand out turkeys to everyone. Also - just under 11 lbs.

Snow in Bozeman, but that's not really news.
Nathaniel taught me over Thanksgiving that most packaged turkeys are pre-brined. Ask him why he was doing research on that.

Snow in Mt. Pulaski this AM. Supposed to be back up in the 40's by Monday.

ahh, what you have there is a turkey pot pie then.