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When cooked, wild rice smells like a fish tank. We poured it down the toilet.

Nice to Meet You, Foodstuff

One day until the Big Turk. TMT will be spending it alone in our Montana apartment and AP has made his demands known: "I want an obscene amount of dishes." I'm OK with that. If my husband is more concerned with quantity than the quality, there's little pressure to get things perfect like there would be if I were sharing courses with Inlaws.

My favorite thing about a low key Thanksgiving is that I get to try out new recipes. Since I know ahead of time that much of the day will place me over the stove, I embrace the labor. I search for recipes that use unfamiliar ingredients. Get a load of this bizarre trio!

I'd like to introduce to you to...
the sisters Shallot, her ladylegs Wild Rice,
and mr. Delicata Squash

Ok, so you've probably used shallots before, but I haven't. In fact, when I was searching the produce aisle for one, I was looking for something that resembled a green onion or scallion. Way off. I am excited to see what these garlic-onion girls will bring to the table. I expect stink breath.

Just look at that bag of Wild Rice being all wrong and renegade black. But how will she taste? Uncaged.

There are so many kinds of squash. Can you catch them all? TMT is trying. Delicata is supposedly one of the tastiest, comparable to a sweet potato. But maybe he's better. What if he is a classy showstopper? How will the turkey cope?

These are exciting times.

TMT, Nature Perverts: Chasing Tail in Montana

A new reoccurring TMT segment?

A Young Buck on the Town

The logical followup to Drunken Top Chef Commentary: Drunken Cooking

"I don't even remember these steps." - Big Green

Drunken Top Chef Commentary

Big Green: Let's pick names for everyone. She is a dude. Dudebot.
AP: She's is big bird. Big bird could be black, right?
Big Green: Big bird is a bird. He's not black or white. He's a bird.
AP: But he's gay, right?
Big Green: What?
AP: Or is he a woman?
Big motherfucking Green: What are you saying?
AP: So many of the S.S. characters are gay. That's the best thing about it; they are multiracial and multisexual.
Big Green: Birds is birds, man. I don't judge. But that contestant is weird. I think that Australian guy is going to win.
AP: He's not an Aussie.
BG: Well, he seems Australian.
AP: The bald guy or the tatoo guy is who I am rooting for.
BG: You like machos.
AP: I do.

Watching the Fish

from ArchDaily:

Vesper Martini

There's a pretty good chance I'm having one of these in a few hours.

"Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?"

-James Bond

Update: I'm drinking this now and it is delicious. It tastes mostly like gin and I love gin. Big Green: "Sweet Firethroat."

Attention friends and family in NJ and NY

One of you needs to join this Mini E trial program. We would do it if we could but it's only available in NY, NJ, and California. If you're thinking about getting a new car or leasing, do this instead. It's basically a year long lease but you get to test the entirely electric Mini Cooper. There are only going to be 500 of them though so get on it now. Let us know if you need help filling out the application. We'll do it in exchange for a test drive when we come home. Due date is December 10, so don't dilly-dally.

You can finally recycle your old Brita filters

A while back TMT signed an online petition geared at trying to get Brita to create a recycling program for used filters. Brita just announced that they are initiating that program now. You can drop your used filters off at select Whole Foods stores or mail them in. The entire filter will be recycled.