and everyone wanted to get in a newspaper story about it

[silveraspen]

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day here in the US, and as is probably neither unusual nor unexpected, I have a few traditions that I tend to adhere to on this particular day.

This year it's a mixture of the old and the new.

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One thing I do and which I've done for a while now is to read Carl Sandburg's " Fire Dreams." I don't know

Comments

[shati]

Karo syrup does not go bad even when left in a pantry for -- well, I think my mom has at least one bottle of it that's older than I am. I'm just saying.

A couple of weeks ago I was in the freezer aisle staring mournfully up at the lone box of potato and 4 cheese blend pierogi, which was way in the back of the case, and trying to decide whether I could live with potato and cheddar. I ended up climbing on the base of the freezer and pretty much diving up into the case. In my defense: that is how the grocery department stocks the one at my store. Also nobody was looking. I think. Next time I'm using a scarf lasso.

[silveraspen]

Scarf lassos are amazingly useful tools, I have to say!

That's more than a little terrifying to know about Karo syrup, by the way.

[shati]

...I guess it kind of is. But I just meant you can kept extra on hand for sudden pecan pie making emergencies!

[tigerlilyaj]

There are no "strong opinions" on pecan pie. There is merely right thinking and wrong thinking. Karo Lite? :shudder: Now pass the pie, please.

[silveraspen]

I like the way you think.

*passes the pie*

[genarti]

This entry makes me happy, and also makes me giggle. I'm glad you successfully retrieved the Karo syrup! As many novels have taught us: everything is a weapon pie-making tool.

(I am a heathen who doesn't like pecan pie, I must admit. I do, however, love my family's variation on it, which uses walnuts instead and puts lots of cocoa in the mix, so it's a bittersweet chocolate-walnut confection of joy.)

[silveraspen]

That sounds like a tasty variation! I picked up a recipe for maple-walnut pie from over at cofax7's, but haven't tried it out yet.

... also, now I am envisioning Lan confronted with a scarf lasso.

[genarti]

It is! And it entirely fixes my primary issue with pecan pie, which is that it's too much concentrated sugar for my tastes; I like it better with the bitterness to help cut the sweetness.

And you know Lan would (craggily, silently) approve if it were used in an effective manner to achieve a worthwhile goal. And this was in pursuit of a foodstuff required by family and cultural tradition for the celebration of a festival in which one remembers not to take for granted what one has! THERE YOU GO. BORDERLANDER-APPROVED.

[silveraspen]

Moiraine would give a serene smile in response, perhaps accompanied by a small nod.

I, however, am giggling helplessly.

[batyatoon]

Happy Thanksgiving, dear one. <3

[silveraspen]

And you. <3