What Happened At The Hawthorne's Today.

Before I begin, let me wish everyone aHappy Martin Luther King Day!
The Hawthornes celebrated at home. Mr. Hawthorne called in to work to let them know he would be spending the day with family.

Ed showed up bright and early to start work in Youngest Hawthorne's room. The house was built 20 years ago by monkeys, apparently, since the bedroom floor here drops almost 3 inches to the center of the house. I know there is some settling involved over 20 years since I live on sand and water underneath that, but I think monkeys attributed to this as well.

Here, Ed has his industrial strength immersion blender and he's whupping up whatever it is that he poured ONto the floor that slowly spreads out and levels out.

You can see how it's spreading.

At 8:23 this morning, Mr. Hawthorne put a turkey bosom INto our new crock pot. He was very excited.

Ed started working in the upstairs hallway pulling up the carpet. That is sooooome nasty carpet.






















Dixie is quite taken with Ed.
Here, they share an intimate moment.






















See all that gray stuff?
Twenty years worth of sand working its way through my carpet to the floor.















Ed's pulling up the carpet down the steps.

In the meantime, I'm taking leftovers and turning them INto something entirely different.

First I sauteed some leftover rice from my Chinese meals I made the other day, then added the corn/bean/onion mixture leftover from last night's tortilla pie, and finally added a small can of green chilies and topped with a sprinkling of fresh cilantro.

Mr. H. baked some lovely mahi mahi.
Convection oven, about 18-22 minutes depending on thickness. He de-skinned it then spread softened butter on top and sprinkled Old Bay.

I would have added some white wine in the baking dish, maybe thinly sliced onions and lemons on top.

Edamame.

Here's my slo-kukked turkey. The veggies were added about 3 1/2 hours INto cooking.
It was very tender, very moist, and flavorful. Mr. Hawthorne cooked it on High for about

4 1/2 - 5 hours. It was an 8-pound bosom.
He had the thermometer probe in it and turned it off when it registered about 168 degrees. He "let it set up" in the crock pot, with pot turned off, until the temperature reached 180, approximately 15 minutes later.

If you look close enough, you can see all the flavors.

Then, Mr. Hawthorne had to go and Semi-Ho our lunch.
He Sandra-Leed it.

The gravy packet came with the turkey.
















Here's the gravy. I tasted it, but decided not to have more than that first taste. 70% packaged krap, then 30% fresh parsley out of my garden, mushrooms, scallions, celery, and sour cream.

This was a very nice, light lunch.