Monday Edition #2 (a day late)
A Thanksgiving Spectacular
Happy Thanksgiving fellow U.S. dwellers – and I don’t say citizens because my dad, who only became a citizen in 2020 in order to vote in the great state of Arizona, has long cited Thanksgiving as his favorite Holiday. Despite its dubious origins, he has always said that Thanksgiving is Americans at their best – giving, welcoming, focused on bringing their communities together and enjoying one another’s company. Growing up, our Thanksgiving celebrations were always a mix of family, chosen family and ex-pat friends – and this predates my parents hosting, which they have done for most of my lifetime. Including now. Today, it’s still a mix, albeit smaller, across the country and with new people.
Where You Can Find Me LIVE 11/21–11/27
Nowhere. I’m on Vacation.
Other Projects of Mine to Check Out
Fandom Game Club : ‘A Way Out’
Bailey and I will be playing the final Act of Hazelight Studio’s A Way Out when Fandom Game Club returns on Thursday, December 1st so, if you haven’t been keeping up, now is the perfect time to binge our first three episodes. You can catch them PLUS all episodes of our play throughs of Call of the Sea and Until Dawn nicely organized in a Fandom Game Club playlist on Fandom’s Twitch Channel.
Honest Trailers: ‘Hocus Pocus’
My second time working on Honest Trailers (the first was as a writer on Arcane). If you haven’t checked out this Halloween week special wherein my voice makes a cameo for what I thought was a very funny Sex and the City joke that went over the heads of a huge portion of YouTube commenters, I highly recommend it. And maybe check out this week’s trailer when it drops at 10am PT…
A Thanksgiving Classic
My family Thanksgiving has always featured traditional Thanksgiving ingredients prepared in non-traditional ways. Now I realize that the fact that this particular recipe replaces – please brace yourselves, as it is quite shocking – mashed potatoes, is blasphemous to some. Okay most. But there are mashed potatoes in this classic French peasant dish and if you want to go through the trouble of making them yourself, you can. I have. Though honestly, instant mash potatoes work just great for the filling. You can also make your own pastry if you feel so inclined, but the flavor stands up to a decent grocery store crust. Oh! And I also love to make mini, single serving size versions in a muffin tin instead if a pie plate.
Ingredients
1 10-inch unbaked pastry shell
1 pound cottage cheese (blended in the food processor or put through a food mill to make it smooth)
2 cups mashed potatoes
½ cup sour cream
2 eggs
2 teaspoons salt
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
½ cup scallions, sliced
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
Directions
Beat the mashed potatoes into the cottage cheese.
Beat in sour cream, eggs, salt and cayenne
Stir in scallions
Spoon into pastry shell
Sprinkle with grated cheese.
Bake at 425 for 50 minutes until golden brown
Would Have Been a Tweet
The thing about ‘Deep Cover’ is, if had watched it before playing ‘A Way Out’, I might have seen that twist coming…
FIFA out here claiming they’re gonna solve human rights in Qatar through microtransactions.
Weekly Pet Rankings
Nice Pet of the Week: Coco
Exceptionally good on her 6.5 hour car trip to Thanksgiving Vacation. Didn’t pull so hard on her leash when she tried to chase a cat that she knocked mom over. Was only very bad when her human friend encouraged her to jump up on the furniture (she’s not allowed). Successfully ignored at least five other dogs.
Medium Pet of the Week: Light
More screaming than last week. Behavior otherwise the same. Failed to step up his game, but still a pretty good boy.
Naughty Pet of the Week: L
Threw his entire body into the office door in an attempt to open it and force a human to feed him breakfast. Cried and scratched at the door all night when mom and dad had to get up and do a long drive the next day. Attempted to play with all humans as if they were cats (teeth were involved).