Better late than never. This was drawn in November, 2014. It is one of my favorite time-change cartoons. This cartoon is notable in another way: it employs a benday pattern, the dots that produce the large uniform gray areas in panels one and three. For more than a century, newspapers printed with only one color, black. Any white was the color of the newsprint itself. All between shades of gray (and gray is all there would be) were created by breaking down areas of black with the use of dots which would vary in size and pattern. This is the benday pattern, named for its 19th-century inventor, illustrator Benjamin Henry Day Jr. Benday patterns have been integral to printing ever since, including the printing of color images, a varying but similar process. I say it is notable in this case, because I seldom have used shading to achieve gray in Arlo & Janis. Usually, it’s just black and white.
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Anyone cooking already besides Symply? I know he is because he posted it on Facebook. I need to go look in freezer and pull out some meat to defrost to cook for Thanksgiving dinner. And hope fridge gets here.
Symply made pecan pies. I am thinking I will make sweet potato instead of pumpkin and lemon ice box for a change. Oh, and Apple with a Dutch crumb topping and nuts, raisins in filling.
Ruth Anne: Skeptics tell us that animals don’t have emotions, but those cats certainly looked embarrassed to me!
Don’t tell me animals have no emotions. They are both happy and grieve.
Turned on Pandora and In the Bleak Midwinter came on. I can’t find the artist playing but this one is beautiful on harp and trumpet.
https://youtu.be/r8WGlhJKlGo
Hi folks! Just checking in, and wishing everyone in the Village a Happy Thanksgiving! Ghost Sweetie, where-ever you are, Happy Day to you, too.
Yes, Jackie, I’m about to start cooking. Pies are today, as is biscuits and cornbread for the dressing tomorrow. The turkeys(2) go in the brine bath tonight; tomorrow one will be smoked and the other roasted. Sides will mostly be done tomorrow.
On the topic of fried turkey, along with the Failure videos one should also watch Alton Brown’s How to do it properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl08RCn-Mbs
21 minutes, but informative and entertaining.
Made cranberry-orange relish last week so the flavors could blend. Apple pie today, using the snickerdoodle top crust that I saw on The Chew recently. We tried it – it’s good! Tomorrow we’ll be over the river and through the woods to Bob’s sister’s house in Georgia, her first Thanksgiving as a grandmother.
Pumpkin pie, peach cobbler and cornbread made today. The Mince is still too young in my opinion to put in a pie, but come Christmas it should be just FINE. Even better by New Year. 🙂
With great effort we got new fridge in space from old fridge. This is actually a bigger and better fridge than one I thought I was buying so either they sold me the one they shipped and I paid correct price or they shipped me wrong one three days late and substituted a better stainless steel one for the enameled one I thought I had coming. It is cooling down, we are loading stuff back in tonight and starting to cook too.
This may be interesting. In meantime going to get hair cut and styled may calm my nerves.
Have decided to bake a lot of pies since I have a number of pie crusts defrosted. Yes, Pillsbury ready made, not scratch ones. Pecan, pumpkin, sweet potato, chess, Apple cranberry and blueberry with walnuts, chocolate fudge.
German chocolate cake and cranberry bread too.
On behalf of the Village, missing the Ghostly one. You know for a person no one has any idea if really exists, you sure are beloved and missed.
Happy turkey day. And a bountiful turkey day to the rest of you. I am sitting outside a Domino’s Pizza shop and considering my options. Wonder if they sell slices?
Trapper Jean, Ruth Anne, Llee, and Jackie—that all sounds scrumptious.
My cousin just posted on FB that she had made a cranberry orange cheesecake. I think I need that recipe!
Who can guess the song used in this lovely parody mocking the “rising” generation that seems to be sinking at the moment?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpE1Pa8vvI
My wife hummed it for several minutes before remembering.
Paul Simon. Will remember in 5 minutes! Very clever by the way.
Still can’t remember but I watched it three times. Very clever and while trying to remember I found this parody of Queen which I dedicate to Debbe, our resident chicken expert. And because it is hilarious.
https://youtu.be/tgbNymZ7vqY
Good food talk, guys. I tried making a new one today–will let you know after tomorrow what we think (taking it to dinner with friends, along with Waldorf Salad–and a bottle of wine, of course.) The new one is “pumpkin magic cake with a pumpkin spice icing.” The “magic cake” deal is that “one simple batter turns into a 3 layered cake with a top layer of sponge, a middle layer of custard, and a fudge-like base.” You can make chocolate, lemon, etc, or as in this case, pumpkin.
Happy Thanksgiving to all–and what the others said to you, Ghost.
The song is OObla-dee Oobla-da. The video is hilarious.
Have been out pulling stuff out of the real “ice box” on breezeway and transferring to new fridge. That big blue box is a professional shrimp or fish box for commercial use. It is four feet deep and rectangular and about six feet long, so 4 x 4 x 6. I may have dived as far as I can go tonight! But remarkably we saved almost everything!
My hands are numb.. I start cooking when I get up. I hope someone will dig rest out in morning. I like new fridge.
I finally found the Beatles song by cheating and reading. I kept waiting for Mark to identify. Congratulations to Laura. Hang around!
Since neither Debbe nor Ghost are playing the music game I will do it for them. Even hit the right decade I think?
For Ghost, https://youtu.be/vDkdjrEqu1I
Will do one for Debbe next.
And one for Debbe too. https://youtu.be/_JoZS6LgqYI
And one for me, the song no one knows the words to! But my deceased elderly neighbor from Australia had a cat named Louie, Louie for the song which amazed me. They always played it and this is how we danced, badly.
https://youtu.be/4V1p1dM3snQ
Happy Thanksgiving to all the US villagers. I wish I could join you. I am off to work and it is snowing (again).
Thank you, Gary! Have a good day in Canada!
Happy, blessed Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you day is filled with all your favorite people and things!
Arlo, that’s why we can take time and effort on side dishes and desserts!
A Happy and Holy Thanksgiving to all the Villagers. God bless us every one. God bless the USA.
Happy Thanksgiving. Jimmie and everyone in the Village.
Good Thanksgiving, Eight mile hike with one of my meetups, sausage cheese kolaches from Shipley’s ( unfortunately for some of you, not a nationwide chain) and a Klondike bar
Hey, we had Bakersfield style enchiladas, stir fry fresh vegs, slightly burnt pecan pie and cold Dr Pepper and Diet Coke out on patio dining area.
The big hit was the pumpkin streusel pie that tasted like no pumpkin pie you ever ate. Recipe follows.
Crust for a deep 9 or 10 inch pie
Pumpkin 30 Oz. Can (not pie filling)
2 eggs
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp. Vanilla
Streussel topping
1 stick butter
1 c. Brown sugar
1/2 or more flour
1 c. Chopped pecans
Mix filling and pour into she’ll. Mix topping to crumbley stage and cover entire top of pie.
Bake at 425 for 10 minutes and reduce to 350 for another 50 minutes or until firmly set in middle.
Three people including me who do not like pumpkin pie ate it, declared it fantastic and had seconds! And no one wanted whipped cream or cool whip although recipe suggested it to serve.