Food Hangover?

Completely. I don't eat dead animals and thought I was being moderate with the mostly starchy and delicious sides. But today, I'm more backed up than the Holland Tunnel at rush hour. Just kidding!

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I'll seond both sets of sentiments.

But I had a cooking nightmare, too.

Being from the south, I make Mac and cheese for Thanksgiving. It's just part of southern/soul cooking. But this year, my usual Mark Bittman ("How To Cook Everything") recipe failed me. It calls for using TWO bay leaves in the steaming milk for the sauce. I usually use a half, or one.But this year, since my mac-loving son is 17, I thought, let's go adult. So Mark, I did as you instructed. But my new bay leaves were so pungant, I ended up with mac and cheese that tasted like it was spiked with Channel Number 5 (I swear, you could see Nicole Kidman's pale face in the steam.)

Into the trash, all of it.

And my homemade stuffing: a bag of chopped pecans tasted like the worst disinfectant used at the Food Emporium. The whole vat of stuffing had a vaguely Formula 409 scent.

Into the trash with the creamy perfumed mac, a pound of stuffing.

At 4:45 p.m., I stood sweating, cursing, weeping, REMAKING the mac and cheese AND the stuffing, as my kitchen garbage can smoldered with the dreadful remains of two tainted dishes.

By 7 p.m., only 4 glasses of wine (and no small amount of whine) got me in the mood to eat.

Today, anything involving bechemal sauce or chopped onions and celery and spiked store-bought nuts (my cashews also taste like the floor of a porno theater, an hour after mopping up.)

Tonight, an italian restaurant: no fowl, no cheese, no breadcrumbs.

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Updated On: 11/28/08 at 12:20 PM

Beautiful Auggie!

"(I swear, you could see Nicole Kidman's pale face the steam.)"

That happened to me once! It ended up being a 20-something Belarusian.

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I hope you eBayed it. Beware: rice is binding.

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What could be more grown up than that?

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I thought it was from baying at the moon!

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Morrisey, is that you?

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*grabs lower torso in pain*

I.
NEED.
AAAADVIIIL!!

In our family we call them "right-overs", as in, "You ain't gonna finish that? Pass it right over here!"

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Jane, your cornbread is BEAUTIFUL if you only look...look...

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Help is here!

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The word of the day is fiber. Can you say that, boys and girls?

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