MyGeekDaddy » Food and Drink http://verly.me My place to talk about family, friends and tech Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:03:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another Thanksgiving and another batch of stuffing… http://verly.me/2011/11/24/another-thanksgiving-and-another-batch-of-stuffing/ http://verly.me/2011/11/24/another-thanksgiving-and-another-batch-of-stuffing/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:11:33 +0000 admin http://verly.me/?p=1242 I think I finally figured out how a family tradition starts. Someone is given the same task to do (whether they wanted it or not), for the same holiday, which is done the same way each year, and it eventually becomes a tradition. Well one of the traditions I’ve inherited over the years is one I don’t mind… making the stuffing and cooking the turkey. Turkey and dressing are the quintessential food for Thanksgiving and Holly has completely relinquished the main course to me. Which is fine by me because that means she has more time to spend on her baking. Home made pumpkin pie anyone?

While turkey normally gets top billing as the main course for a Thanksgiving day dinner, it’s the stuffing that is the real winner. For as long as I can remember, stuffing was the Thanksgiving day dish I looked forward to the most. It would beat out turkey, salads, deserts or pie. Grandma Verly’s was always the best. It had just the right amount of salt, pepper and sage. The breadcrumbs were always mashed – never understood why you’d want lumpy stuffing. You just knew the gizzards added that right umphh to the taste. And of course it was made with enough butter to make you cry (cry for joy for how good it tasted).

So the tradition lives on. I spent the evening getting the turkey ready, crying over the chopped onions, cooking up the gizzards, mushing the breadcrumbs and spicing the whole thing until it’s just right. And like every year I make the stuffing, I use nearly every bowl, spatula, and pan in the house. I think Holly is beginning to wonder if that part of the tradition could be altered a little bit next year.  Then again she’s hinted at using fewer dishes for the last 8 years and nothing has really changed, so I doubt I’m going to start now.  Sorry honey. So here’s to the holiday season and all the traditions they bring – both the good and the bad!

Happy Thanksgiving to all our family and friends!

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Sam is one step closer to Saturday morning independence. Which means Evan is one more step closer to Saturday morning independence. Which means I’m one step closer to being able to sleep in on Saturday again!

It’s all about the bigger picture in my book.

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Sam: Can I have some fruity snacks too?
Me: Sure. You know where they are.
Sam: Thanks.

A few minutes go by.

Sam: (mumbling) I put them all in my mouth so we can go see Grandma and Papa right now.

That’s my boy. I think. Maybe that’s more from Holly’s side.

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Our attempt at a world record… not even close.

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An attempt to break the World's Record with 3000 bottles of pop and Mentos

]]> http://verly.me/2011/07/28/world-record-attempt/feed/ 0 It’s official… http://verly.me/2011/07/24/its-official/ http://verly.me/2011/07/24/its-official/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:53:33 +0000 admin http://verly.me/2011/07/24/its-official/ With me and the kids being gone last week, Holly got to catch up on the grocery shopping. Or so she thought. We started a fresh gallon of milk Friday evening when we all got home. By this morning (Sunday) we had to start a new one. So it’s official. We have a new record for milk consumption in our house. One gallon of milk in less than 36 hours. Yeah!

Sam and Evan think it’s cool they helped set a ‘record’. Holly was hoping for something a little more constructive, like longest streak of no one peeing on the floor or saying the word ‘poop’ or ‘fart’.

Maybe we’ll work on one of those next time.

]]> http://verly.me/2011/07/24/its-official/feed/ 0 A good idea, bad execution… http://verly.me/2011/04/15/a-good-idea-bad-execution/ http://verly.me/2011/04/15/a-good-idea-bad-execution/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:04:29 +0000 admin http://verly.me/2011/04/15/a-good-idea-bad-execution/ Our attempt to take Sam and Evan to a Japanese hibachi grill restaurant did not go as planned. One got scared of the fire and the other didn’t like the sauce flavoring.

Can you guess who was who?

]]> http://verly.me/2011/04/15/a-good-idea-bad-execution/feed/ 0 Lesson learned… http://verly.me/2011/01/22/lesson-learned%e2%80%a6/ http://verly.me/2011/01/22/lesson-learned%e2%80%a6/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:21:04 +0000 admin http://verly.me/2011/01/22/lesson-learned%e2%80%a6/ You know how parents sometimes make wild ass promises, thinking there is NO WAY their kid will keep their half of the bargain?

Yeah… I’m not doing that anymore. Why? Because it’s -5°F outside and I’m driving to the mall to get ice cream.

Who taught who a lesson here?

]]> http://verly.me/2011/01/22/lesson-learned%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 Quick update… http://verly.me/2010/11/25/quick-update-3/ http://verly.me/2010/11/25/quick-update-3/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:07:52 +0000 admin http://verly.me/2010/11/25/quick-update-3/ FYI, I nailed the stuffing this year. So here’s hoping I can repeat this feat again next year.

]]> http://verly.me/2010/11/25/quick-update-3/feed/ 1 Not my idea… http://verly.me/2010/09/01/not-my-idea/ http://verly.me/2010/09/01/not-my-idea/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:52:14 +0000 admin http://verly.me/2010/09/01/not-my-idea/ There are times Holly wonders why I let Sam or Evan do certain things. This was not one of them. This was all Holly.

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