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I'm not enthused by the idea of gravy without drippings, and am rather surprised Ina has such a recipe. The ones of hers I found call for drippings, so it seems an anomaly. We take the motorhome out each year for Thanksgiving, and do a turkey breast on the charcoal grill (deboned and rolled, brined and then basted with butter while cooking), so there are no drippings from that. But we get some turkey wings and/or legs to cook for the drippings in order to make gravy. There must be drippings! We don't make a special turkey stock, though; (homemade) chicken stock works just fine when added to the drippings.

Jenn The mothman creature Full moon fear monster

I love Stephen Colbert, but that's the first of his pistachio ads I've liked (and all credit goes to the eagle shifting away from him).

With five votes, Henry Weems' good luck is out first, followed by Puppet with four votes. With two votes, Morris Fletcher joins them. Ronnie Strickland also got two votes, but they weren't as strong. Luther Lee Boggs (Beyond the Sea) The Eves (Eve) Eugene Victor Tooms (Squeeze and Tooms) Duane Barry (Duane Barry and Ascension) Mrs. Paddock (Die Hand Die Verletzt) Donnie Pfaster (Irresistible) Robert Patrick Modell (Pusher) Terri and Margi (Syzygy) John Lee Roche (Paper Hearts) Eddie Van Blundht (Small Potatoes) Leonard Betts (Leonard Betts) Ronnie Strickland (Bad Blood) The mothman creature (Detour) Maurice and Lyda (How the Ghosts Stole Christmas) Alfred Fellig (Tithonus) Full moon fear monster (X-Cops) Jenn (Je Souhaite) Vote for three.

That was rather odd; they generally juxtapose the judges' reactions to dishes with those of the "regular" diners, whether they be in agreement or opposition.

I love when a confused Jackie rattles off the man-hunting activities in which the two of them have engaged together and Nancy teases her with, "I thought we were dating." But I think my favorite Nancy-related quote is, "Who are the Allens and why are they out of spice?" Heh. "Aliens from outer space, Dan." (I love the way she says this.) "Oh, that makes a lot more sense."

Granted, I don't watch many genie stories, but the ones I've seen are pretty much all the same -- benevolent genie tries to help, but people's wishes always go awry because of the consequences they didn't think about, so the bottom line is you just can't attempt to change things that way. Now, Scully in that episode, on the other hand, is terribly interesting to me. She's downright adorable.

Now that all the villains I never saw or don't remember are out of the way, I have to do some actual deliberation this round. Hmmm ... Jenn (just a genie) Morris Fletcher (just a MiB, plus he's a sexist jackass) Henry Weems' good luck (points for being unique, but less interesting than the rest of the list)

With five votes, Tommy Conlon is out first. With four votes each, he is followed by the soul eater and Greg Pincus (in that order, due to weighted voting). Luther Lee Boggs (Beyond the Sea) The Eves (Eve) Eugene Victor Tooms (Squeeze and Tooms) Duane Barry (Duane Barry and Ascension) Mrs. Paddock (Die Hand Die Verletzt) Donnie Pfaster (Irresistible) Robert Patrick Modell (Pusher) Terri and Margi (Syzygy) Puppet, the bellhop (Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose) John Lee Roche (Paper Hearts) Eddie Van Blundht (Small Potatoes) Leonard Betts (Leonard Betts) Ronnie Strickland (Bad Blood) The mothman creature (Detour) Maurice and Lyda (How the Ghosts Stole Christmas) Alfred Fellig (Tithonus) Morris Fletcher (Dreamland) Full moon fear monster (X-Cops) Jenn (Je Souhaite) Henry Weems’ good luck (The Goldberg Variation) Vote for three again.

Can you post a link to the recipe? Everything I'm finding from a general search for Barefoot Contessa gravy does use drippings.

One would think I'd have trouble with such a quote, but it's from one of my favorites: DHDV.

Piss up a rope, Aaron. There are several more middle-of-the-road chefs who need to be weeded out at this stage of the competition, but I'm quite happy for him to be among the first of his talent level thanks to his odious personality. I didn't realize quite how much I cared until I frightened my cat by cheering at his head-to-head loss. My bare minimum was for Keriann and Katie to outlast Aaron, given the fact he's a sexist asshole - rather than an equal-opportunity asshole - who has specifically targeted them, so I'm good with whatever happens going forward. And, hey, I can eat at Bow & Truss again. I am in the midst of rereading 1776, so dividing it up into those battles got me oddly fired up.

That was an enjoyable, well-paced game that I really wish Julia had won (or finished with more money). Especially because I thought FJ was pretty easy (with all acknowledged bias as a lawyer). I enjoyed the country music category because it focused on older songs, but I just knew Loretta's classic song was going to be a TS. The triple stumpers that surprised me were conjunctiva, HELOC (home equity) and Ten Little Indians (although, given the original even more pejorative rhyme, I'm a bit surprised they used that at all). Plumeria and AMC somewhat. I thought the British English clues a bit too easy, and felt the same about the Before & After clues. But I sucked embarrassingly hard at the '30s category. There was a Land of the Lost movie?

Yeah, some people tolerate it better than others. I have a low tolerance, and commute time from my home is a significant factor in evaluating a job prospect. If a HH is someone for whom a commute longer than X minutes or one involving stop-and-go traffic would be a significant source of stress, I think they should have a big say in location, especially if their partner has no commute at all!

I knew JFK Jr. almost immediately; I didn't remember the specific quote, but between the sentiment and the year, it was easy for me given the category. I wouldn't bat an eye at someone missing it, but I, too, felt it was over valued -- a DD in the DJ round of the ToC (holy acronyms, Batman).

I like both of those, but I am not ready to see them yet.

Ronnie is interesting to me because he cracks me up, but also because he's someone who acts the way he does because he's seen one too many Bela Lugosi movies ... but he just happens to be a real vampire. I love that idea.

Not in my experience (professional, not personal), unfortunately.

P is for pension law, which Rose found out is not on her side.

Awww. L

I thought it was Reeves for George, but saw it written here as Reeve and thought I had it wrong. I'm firm on Christopher Reeve's name, so I'll just have to remember they don't have the same last name so the other Superman has an S. I thought I'd flop in the Beyoncé category, but I got all of them. I had no idea I knew her child's name, but I guess I picked that up somewhere along the way because it popped right into my head. I didn't know she'd played Etta James, but James was easy to get from the clue. Sapporo was mildly surprising as a TS, if only for the beer.

This is still easy peasy ... the two I've never seen and the one I don't remember: Soul eater Tommy Conlon Greg Pincus

One of the gazillion things I loved about Roseanne is they put DJ - and sometimes another kid if Jackie was joining them - on the other side of the table, back to the camera be damned, because that's how people sit around a table. What made GG so annoying was they didn't even have a fourth chair. It's one thing to have a chair on the "bad" side of the table and come up with reasons for characters to sit elsewhere, but they just skipped it altogether.

Dr. Jack Preijers, reptile creature Herman Stites, and Erwin Lukesh all got six votes, and with weighted voting they're out in that order. Joining them are Oliver Martin with five votes and the Jesus slug with three. Luther Lee Boggs (Beyond the Sea) The Eves (Eve) Eugene Victor Tooms (Squeeze and Tooms) Duane Barry (Duane Barry and Ascension) Mrs. Paddock (Die Hand Die Verletzt) Donnie Pfaster (Irresistible) Robert Patrick Modell (Pusher) Terri and Margi (Syzygy) Puppet, the bellhop (Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose) John Lee Roche (Paper Hearts) Eddie Van Blundht (Small Potatoes) Leonard Betts (Leonard Betts) Ronnie Strickland (Bad Blood) Greg Pincus (Folie a Deux) The mothman creature (Detour) Maurice and Lyda (How the Ghosts Stole Christmas) Alfred Fellig (Tithonus) Morris Fletcher (Dreamland) Full moon fear monster (X-Cops) Jenn (Je Souhaite) Henry Weems’ good luck (The Goldberg Variation) Soul eater (The Gift) Tommy Conlon (Scary Monsters) Vote for three this time.

I'm not excited by Thanksgiving dinner; it's good, but the treat for me is the plethora of snacks we munch on all day long while watching football. We take the motorhome out each year, and there are three of us, so we do a (deboned and rolled) turkey breast on the charcoal grill as we'd be eating even the smallest whole turkey for months. Brined and then basted with butter while cooking, it's delicious. But I don't care about the dressing, whatever it is, because I'm not a big bread person, and I really don't like bread once you've cooked it with other stuff. My mom makes cornbread dressing from my paternal grandmother's recipe, which I think is just (non-sweet, homemade) cornbread, onion, celery, giblets, chicken stock and some herbs. She doesn't much care for it, but she makes her mother's dressing at Christmas, so Dad gets his nostalgia at Thanksgiving. The vegetable dish depends on what we're in the mood for, but I always push for Brussels sprouts of some sort. This year, probably roasted with pancetta and drizzled with a little balsamic before serving. I'm the only one who likes cranberries, so if I'm in the mood I'll make a small batch of Ina Garten's cranberry fruit conserve. I'll probably skip it this year. I'm in charge of the side salad, because I'm the only one who does more than mixed greens (not that there's anything wrong with that), so I'll either pick from some old standbys or try something new. Dessert is always pumpkin pie, which I can't stand (I don't like pumpkin), but that's okay because I'm full by then.