{"id":1567,"date":"2013-12-02T10:06:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T18:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2013-12-02T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T18:06:33","slug":"happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/happy-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gotta like a nice long weekend. \u00a0Actually it was broken up with some intermittent work, but that’s OK. \u00a0We had a quite nice Thanksgiving, if a bit unconventional. \u00a0Since we just got out to CA recently, we’re not really ready to absorb the financial (or mental) impact of travel just yet, so we stayed home and had a quiet holiday at home. \u00a0We originally had a turkey breast on the menu, but decided to go whole-bird because A) Mom sent me some fancy brine that I wanted to use and B) we wanted some leftovers. \u00a0So, we picked up a 12 lb. bird and rounded out the menu with green bean casserole, garlic potatoes and gravy, stuffing, and crescent rolls. \u00a0We also had egg noodles on the list, which we had to do a considerable amount of shopping for. \u00a0Apparently they aren’t too widely available here, and I wasn’t going to go to the (admittedly small) effort to make them. \u00a0We finally found them at, of all places, Target. \u00a0All that trouble, and then we forgot to actually take them out of the freezer and cook them. \u00a0I’m not sure but I think that’s a regular occurrence for us. \u00a0Anyway, everything that we actually remembered to cook came out well, it was a fine feast. \u00a0I think the brine saved me on the turkey, as I brutally overcooked it. \u00a0Following the recipe in my Weber cookbook, I didn’t take a temp on it until 2.5 hours, and by then it was far overdone. \u00a0Brine works miracles though, it was still plenty juicy.<\/p>\n

Friday sort of escapes me… \u00a0I went to work for a bit, and we hung out on our back patio for a while. \u00a0We’re gonna squeeze every last bit out of this 70 degree weather; \u00a0To hear everyone talk it’s not the norm here. \u00a0Saturday was quite warm too, so Teagan and I played a good round of fetch at the park and then I spent the rest of the afternoon working on an immense pot of turkey & sausage gumbo. \u00a0It came out good enough, and we’ve pretty much got enough to last us the rest of our natural lives. \u00a0I definitely miss the andouille sausage from The Store<\/a> in Raytown though, there’s just no substitute for it. \u00a0I’ve considered ordering some from Louisiana, it’s not terribly unreasonable, but I always forget.<\/p>\n

Sunday was spent brewing up a few more batches of homebrew, as well as kegging the two batches from a few weeks ago. \u00a0We only have three kegs available, so I’m not sure what we’ll do with the fourth batch when it’s ready… \u00a0We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. \u00a0I elected to make a rather generic Irish stout, while my co-brewer went with a ridiculously elaborate clone of the semi-famous Pliny the Elder<\/a>. \u00a0Hope it comes out good, it was a lot more effort than I ever put into my batches. \u00a0We also hooked the kegs up to the snazzy kegerator, which was completed last week. \u00a0It looks good<\/em> too. \u00a0I’m not entirely sure his wife is overly fond of it’s prominent location in their formal dining room, I couldn’t get a read on that. \u00a0But it does<\/em> look nice, and the stain even matches the dining room table. \u00a0The only thing left to do is to get somebody with handwriting much nicer than ours to put the styles under the respective taps. \u00a0We should probably come up with some catchy names too, but so far haven’t gotten past “beer #1” and “beer #2.”<\/p>\n

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The re-purposed deep freeze<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gotta like a nice long weekend. \u00a0Actually it was broken up with some intermittent work, but that’s OK. \u00a0We had a quite nice Thanksgiving, if a bit unconventional. \u00a0Since we just got out to CA recently, we’re not really ready to absorb the financial (or mental) impact of travel just yet, so we stayed home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}