{"id":287,"date":"2007-11-25T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-11-28T10:33:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T17:33:51","slug":"sloth-and-gluttony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Sloth and Gluttony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Yeah, it was almost like that.\u00a0 Except Donna and I aren’t that old (oh my God, are we?), and our guests weren’t flashing pod people grins.<\/p>\n

Our kids and grandkids were here, along with a few friends.\u00a0 Donna borrowed tables and chairs and we were all able to sit down together for soup, salad, turkey, smoked goose, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, beans, cranberry relish, home-made biscuits, and pie, pie, pie.\u00a0 Life is good.<\/p>\n

Nor did the gluttony end after November 22nd . . . we went over to another friend’s house last night for a\u00a0Louisiana-style\u00a0catfish fry.\u00a0 We fried\u00a0fish, French fries, and onion rings\u00a0in small batches in a propane-fired\u00a0deep fryer.\u00a0 Rather than wait until everything was cooked to sit down\u00a0and eat, we nibbled at each batch of food as it came out of the fryer.\u00a0 Tons of fun, but you also eat tons more than you think you’re eating!<\/p>\n

Today should be a day of exercise and self-restraint.\u00a0 Self-restraint’s no problem . . .\u00a0after all that eating, we’re happy to take a pass on food . . . but sloth has definitely set in.\u00a0 It dropped into the 30s last night, and right now, approaching noon, it’s not much warmer.\u00a0 So much for\u00a0our bicycle ride!<\/p>\n

We stayed home on Black Friday<\/a>, save for a quick morning visit to the bank, where someone told us the police had already broken up two fights at Best Buy.\u00a0 Jesus, people!\u00a0 It’s just stuff!\u00a0 You’re giving gluttony a bad name.<\/p>\n

A word about goose: not many people eat goose these days;\u00a0most younger Americans, I’d guess, have never tasted it.\u00a0 People who heard we were serving goose reacted as if we’d told them we\u00a0were going to eat\u00a0kangaroo, but our guests liked it and went back for seconds.\u00a0 If you haven’t tried goose you really should . . . it’s a traditional English Christmas dinner, after all, so how exotic can it really be?\u00a0 But I wouldn’t plan an entire meal around a goose, because there isn’t nearly as much breast meat on a goose, proportionally, as there is on a chicken or turkey, so keep that in mind.\u00a0 They roast up just like turkey, though, and as I found, they also taste great smoked.<\/p>\n

That’s our Thanksgiving report.\u00a0 Let’s see . . . thirty days until the next round of gluttony and sloth . . . maybe we’d better bundle up and go bicycling after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Yeah, it was almost like that.\u00a0 Except Donna and I aren’t that old (oh my God, are we?), and our guests weren’t flashing pod people grins. Our kids and grandkids were here, along with a few friends.\u00a0 Donna borrowed tables and chairs and we were all able to sit down together for soup, salad, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}