Happy turkey day • click to embiggenJust as I was starting to rummage around for an appropriate picture for this entry, I got an email ping and, lo and behold, Aaron sent me the above picture. He had called early in the day, in a stunning display of wilderness naiveté, to ask if I knew of a place where he could picture some wild turkeys for a Thanksgiving Cinemascape. He came to the right ...

Are you ready???Tomorrow is like the decathalon of cooking events or at least in my house. After a doctors appointment and a quick x-ray of the broken finger ( which is healing fine thank you very much) we headed out to Stop and Shop for some goods. $281.57 later I wheeled my 18 wheeler of food to the car.I got tied up while picking up my daughter - catching up with my good friend who I do NOT ...

I was in charge of cooking the turkey this year for Thanksgiving Dinner. I tried something new this year a salt roast bird instead of a briny one. I used the recipe from the November issue of Bon Appetit magazine and tweaked it. The bird came out moist and the skin came out to a golden brown. I was constantly basting the turkey every 30 minutes after the first 1 hour of cooking. The salt roast ...

I'm surprised that no one has commented (and abused me for implying otherwise) that you can get from Newburyport to Amesbury via the Rte. 1 bridge over the Merrimack River ... I'm very disappointed! Anyway ... It will be very good to be able once again to drive down Rte. 1A, especially this time of year. I always see wild turkeys along there ... in fact, I almost ran one down a couple of years ...

Couldn't ask for a nicer day to go fishing than on Thanksgiving. It was especially nice that most of the steelheaders couldn't weasel their way into a day of fishing - I guess the mother-in-laws had a long to-do-list or wanted to spend time with their favorite son-in-law...snort. I knew today would be better than "Black Friday" the day that ushers in the Christmas shopping season after turkey day ...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING The holiday season has begun, we are only 24 hrs from eating until we are almost comatose and then eating again! Turkey, yams, macaroni and cheese, string beans...all Yummy yum yum but nothing makes me happier than my Nana's sweet potato pies. I look forward to helping her make them or just eating them all year long. So for me its all about the pie (ohh and my cousins carrot ...