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R.I.P. Meathead. He sure brought joy to my life.

Al and I just prepared Eggs Benedict for the Mayberry compound. I may have overdone it. See you all after a brief food coma.

Brent is going to be so pissed off that you used his Olivia Newton John sweat bands. Keep up the good work! Also...

Happy Birthday!

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I came away believing that he got off easy. This guy should never see the light of day.

Glad that you got to see Colin.

Yes, I'm going to be fine Brent. Thanks for your concern.

Damn delicious if I do say so myself!

When I was a kid my Mom made the same Thanksgiving dishes every year. One of them was green bean casserole. Probably like many of your Moms made too. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. Canned green beans, French's fried onions and cream of mushroom soup. Like many vegetables and other dishes of my childhood I didn't know that I liked them until I was living on my own and tasted the fresh version. So I thought the concept (Trump joke) of green bean casserole was good. But what if it was elevated to using fresh ingredients? So today I set out to test that theory. I trimmed and sautéed about 3 pounds of green beans. Then sliced and sautéed a large amount of mushrooms in butter and white wine. I decided that making my own fried onions might not be worth the extra effort, so French's fried onions it was. In place of cream of mushroom soup, I used cream of celery soup, as I like the flavor better and had already incorporated fresh mushrooms into the dish. I have enough for a small army, as I had planned to take this to Al's before catching a cold. How is it? Well it has about 15 more minutes to bake, so I'll let you know later. You can't tell, but there are two layers of everything in the dish.

Well I definitely have something. Haven't tested for covid yet, but will later. No cough at all though. Just my usual cold symptoms, which means just a stuffy nose. Musinex is effectively handling that. I have several pounds of Green beans, a ton of mushrooms and fried onions that I was going to turn into an elevated version of Green bean casserole. Not quite sure what to do with it. I guess I'll make it up later and try freezing in portions. Sorry Al. As for myself, I'm going to start my Thanksgiving with biscuits and gravy. Not the traditional meal I had been looking forward to, but still a favorite of mine. Still, this far better than my worst Thanksgiving. In 1983 I had flown to Juneau, Alaska for a new job building a mall. I flew the evening before Thanksgiving. Got into my hotel and went to sleep. Thanksgiving day I woke up to find everything in walking distance completely closed up. Even to hotel Cafe was closed. I had candy bars from a vending machine for Thanksgiving dinner. Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!

Went to sleep last night with sniffles, woke up today with a cold or something. So much for Thanksgiving.

Have a fantastic day! Glad you're back!

I discovered a 'new to me' YouTube channel. It's from across the pond, and like all things British, has a very British sensibility. Check out... LadBaby