Happy Thanksgiving!

"Judah" wrote

My brother-in-law in New York cooked a ham on the BBQ yesterday. Of course it
was about 45* and pouring rain. But he's pretty dedicated. And my family
reaped the benefits, so no one tried very hard to stop him.

Last year, he did the same for Christmas. It didn't snow on Christmas day,
but he did have to dig out an area for the BBQ from snow from the week
before...

Ahh, the joys of living in NC! Yesterday, it was about 65 degrees, and is
about that on many Thanksgivings. Christmas will often have temps around the
50's, with seldom any snow.

Just in case there is snow, or rain when I want to cook outside, I have a 18' by
28' covered back porch, with two sides against the house to block the wind.
Makes grilling out a non issue, in most any weather.

An electric slow cooker is also a great way to cook a turkey. It has a place to
put your wet hickory chips, and a pan above the burner and chips to keep water
in, to make the heat moist. No dried out turkey for me!

Soaking the bird in brine before cooking works great, too. Just warn your
guests to taste it before they salt it. g
--
Jim in NC

"karl gruber" wrote in message
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I spent the afternoon yesterday making apple pies, my mother's and her
mother's crust recipe.

1 cup flour
1 cube butter

What is a cube of butter?



1 teaspoon salt

For the crust, there is no substitute for real butter. It was pouring down
rain and thunderstorms. But today I see a patch of blue. I think I'll fly
out and circle her grave.

Best wishes to all of you, including the great pilots who just like to
vent their every day frustrations on RAP's willing victims.

And...............................MERRY CHRISTMAS..............just around
the corner.

Karl
"Curator" N185KG
Fusion is the key to world peace.




"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ps.com...
To all the American pilots and aviation enthusiasts who have made this
group so fun and educational for me over the years, please accept my
heartfelt thanks and best wishes on this Thanksgiving holiday!

We have so much to be thankful for, here in the United States (and so
much to be concerned with, of course) -- but suffice it to say that (as
long as we keep the blue up and the brown down) we are blessed to live
where we live. And we are even more blessed to be able to partake in
this joyous thing we call "aviation". What an amazing time to be
alive!

And, to all of our friends from outside the USA, well, I can only hope
that y'all have a a holiday sorta like "Thanksgiving" in *your* country
-- cuz it's by FAR the best holiday of the year!

:-)

Happy Thanksgiving!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

To a mathematician, a misnomer for a solid of rotation by a rectangle
rotated through its longitudinal axis with a surface drawn every 90° of
revolution.

To a metricist, 4 ounces or 114 grams (usually rounded to 100 grams).

To a cook, butter (US) comes in one pound packages and divided and wrapped
into four "sticks" or cubes to the pound.

Jim

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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1 cube butter

What is a cube of butter?

To a mathematician, a misnomer for a solid of rotation by a rectangle
rotated through its longitudinal axis with a surface drawn every 90° of
revolution.

Huh? Solids of rotation are cylinders. Draw surfaces anywhere you
want, you won't get a cube. Unless by "misnomer" you mean "not at all
connected with reality"

To a cook, butter (US) comes in one pound packages and divided and wrapped
into four "sticks" or cubes to the pound.

We call them sticks. Never called them cubes.

But, to a traveller, a cube is a rectangular cloth pouch for packing
clothing inside a suitcase - a genius application of "containerized
baggage".

Jose
--
"There are 3 secrets to the perfect landing. Unfortunately, nobody knows
what they are." - (mike).
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

No sir, solids of REVOLUTION are cylinders. Solids of ROTATION can be given
as many sides as there are "stops" to draw a plane surface on the solid at
that angle of rotation. A stop every 90° gives you what the topologist
might call a longitudinally elongated cube. A regular cube by definition
has six equal sides.

Jim

"Jose" wrote in message
m...
To a mathematician, a misnomer for a solid of rotation by a rectangle
rotated through its longitudinal axis with a surface drawn every 90° of
revolution.

Huh? Solids of rotation are cylinders. Draw surfaces anywhere you want,
you won't get a cube. Unless by "misnomer" you mean "not at all connected
with reality"

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...

To a cook, butter (US) comes in one pound packages and divided and wrapped
into four "sticks" or cubes to the pound.



Thanks Jim.

My wife buys butter either in 4 sticks, or a 1 lb brick (same shape as the 4
sticks). I was trying to figure out if a 'cube' was a cube from a stick
(maybe 1" x 1" x 1") or a cube from the brick (1/2 LB?)

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
...
"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...

To a cook, butter (US) comes in one pound packages and divided and wrapped
into four "sticks" or cubes to the pound.


Jim, when in the hell are you going to get a real ISP (or newsreader, if that
would help) that is not a known spambot, so everyone could read your posts
again.

You should make that a charge to "Kitplanes" since that is the way readers are
supposed to ask questions and get answers about your columns.

Seriously, there is nothing the responsible ISP's (like mine) will do, about
unblocking a known mass spam sending ISP, like yours.

The ball is in your court.

By the way, I never did see a regular on here, or RAH, volunteer to re-post
Jim's E-mails, so everyone can see them.

Any volunteers? Please?
--
Jim in NC