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Can You Get Swine Flu From Being a Pig at the Thanksgiving Table?

I felt bad all day. I’m sure it couldn’t be due to overeating on Thanksgiving like a hungry pig at a trough of fresh acorns. Some of my nephews have had the swine H1N1 influenza, but that was weeks ago; they can’t still be infectious, can they? Not that I’m paranoid or anything, you understand.
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Gobble, Gobble! The Big Feast Day is Finally Here…

Question: Which side of the turkey has the most feathers?
Don’t think about it too much, now; you might get a painful brain sprain. You wouldn’t want me to have that on my conscience during the Holidays, would you? Good. Besides, the answer’s pretty obvious. (I hope.)
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, here’s [...] Read more »

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Zesty Holidays: Queso Dipping Sauce

As I noted in an earlier post, everybody loves queso. This time of year, however, most people only eat queso as a dip for chips. I suggest you consider it for your Turkey Day feast, or at least for the football snacks you’ll need during the long weekend of gridiron clashes.
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After Thanksgiving: Two Spicy Soups From Leftovers

The relatives came over and you fed them. Oh, you ate too! If you’re like me, you “tested” everything regularly before it found its way to the overloaded tables for the Big Meal. Then you ate again, just to be sociable; you ate so much that your I.Q. dropped to somewhere below your shoe size, [...] Read more »

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After Thanksgiving: So Much Turkey, So Little Appetite

By this time in the Thanksgiving cycle, most folks are hoping to hit the drive-through to avoid leftovers. There are a lot of nice dishes in those esteemed remnants! Don’t toss them out, and for sure don’t let them go to waste.
Here are some clever ways to turn unappealing surplus turkey and vegetables into tasty [...] Read more »

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Best Wishes for Turkey Day From the Chile Underground

Today is one of our Great Holidays in America. Friends and family gather and share traditions and memories. For some, it’s all about socializing and catching up: Where you’ve been, how’s the job, and more. For others it’s about the football and the food, or the board and card games after the feast.
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Almost Thanksgiving: Get the Desserts Ready!

If you’ve been following along at home, you know by now that the recipes I’m sharing aren’t for a traditional Thanksgiving. There’s maybe 47 bajillion sites that have those ideas; even Google throws a hissie fit when you search for that.
Staying “in character,” then, here are a couple concepts for dessert:

Zesty Peach Purses
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Before Thanksgiving: Brisket Replaces Turkey!

I’m a big fan of traditional meats at Thanksgiving. But possum and coon are getting scarce, even here in central Texas; dove and quail weren’t plentiful due to the drought; and my brother hasn’t been headlighting deer hunting enough to share. So I have moved to a more avant-guarddog kind of protein:

Spicy Brisket Bake

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