Never Before
I baked a chicken. I've done that before but not using Julie's suggestions.
I played scrabble. I've done that before but not using the Hasbro Online Scrabble Dictionary - which, btw, I'll never use again as it is far too lenient.
It accepts za as a form of the word pizza.
I'd never celebrated Christmas with just the wife and in some ways I still haven't which leads to my next never before.
I've never used Skype with a web cam. We peeked in on Christmas at my mom's house where my mom, sister, brother, sister-in-law, a cat and a three legged dog were swapping gifts. They couldn't see us though. So we sent them a couple of photos wearing their gifts.
I am demonstrating the virabhadrasana yoga position as demonstrated by the cat on the card in my hand.
Our cat did not participate, btw.
I've seen Stuff-on-My-Cat before but not in book form through a web cam.
I've never spent Christmas listening to a music station that I deejay. It's set to only play early rap (GrandMaster Flash and the Furious Five, Funky 4 + 1, Run DMC, Kool Moe Dee, Kurtis Blow...)
That was after I got sick of the station that was set to play about twenty different versions of Littler Drummer Boy (oddly the Jimi Hendrix version is not available).
I've never been in a rap battle before.
And so it goes without saying that I've never been in a rap battle before on Skype.
Or that I've never been in a rap battle before sampling my voice into a stuffed elf which then plays the sample back at a higher pitch.
I bow to only my self
I got pots of gold on my shelfs
I fuck all your bitches
and all of your ho ho ho's
Btw, I could've kept rapping but that's all my elf could hold. I just think you should know that if you plan to challenge me to a rap battle. And hey I'm up for the challenge, elf or no elf.
This is for Chris King.
For a taste of what folks are doing this time of year around the world, click here.
5 Comments:
Very Nice post K.
Merry Christmas guys from us down in H-town.
oo! roasted chicken. it's hard to justify buying and roasting an entire chicken as buying an already roasted one is only $6. ok, true, the leg quarters will be very dry but still that makes for one yummy leftover chicken sandwich.
the julie chicken blog mentioned poached eggs. crazy that the author had never eaten an egg. we LOVE poached eggs. ramon got one of those crazy egg-poaching pans. that's really all you can do with it so its about as flexible as a "quesadilla maker". but it works really nicely. so our christmas breakfast was runny poached eggs and buttered toast. don't ya just love to punch the yolks with the corner of your toast? yuh-uh-um!
as for christmas we didn't do nothing we've not done before which is fine by a pair of no-news-is-good-news loving tauruses. and an easy to please acquarius. no one died, the car has gas, we have a roof over our head and if tragedy lay ahead, well, we can say we never saw it comin'... you can't ask for more than that. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
I thought that egg thing was pretty crazy too Rosa.
You know, it turns out that even though Julie is posting mostly from Long Island City, New York she's actually from Texas. In any event, the fact that she hadn't eaten an egg until she was in here late twenties is bizarre.
We had fresh tamales topped with eggs-over-easy for Christmas breakfast.
The already-roasted chickens in our neighborhood grocery stores are only four bucks, however I think they are really pigeons. Anyway they are scrawny.
Happy Holidays to y'all too. And everyone else on board. May you find something to be merry about
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Hey, that's squab to Julia, and theyre 36$ at the overpriced authentic bistro in my neighborhood!
Which chicken method did you use, the silly french trussing or the reasonable olive oil and into the oven method?
Rosa (et all): Half the point of roasted chicken, much like fresh baked bread, is the wonderful aroma that fills your house. Clearly, this is markedly absent with those rotisserie things from the store. I've never had a poached egg, but I love the concept of runny egg-holes punched by toast.
My mother in law gave me a Mediterannean cookbook for Christmas, so I will soon be delving into the world of kofta and yoghurt.
K, I think you need to market your rap-battle elf, much like those annoying "kung-fu fighting" hamsters.
SoR I have been rudely informed that it is a gnome not an elf, specifically, henry. henry, the gnone.
I took Julie's word for it that the french trussing, turning and all that was not worth your time. I did baste every fifteen minutes though. I don't know if it helped but the dark meat wasn't dry anyway. Trica actually thought it too bland though. The last time I baked a chicken it was stuffed with rosemary and garlic. That got a thumbs up.
If you can tie kofta and yoghurt into a music post, I'd love to read about your successes with Med cooking.
Someday here I'm gonna start the nap family cookbook. Actually, anybody who wants to start that has my blessing.
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