Exploding Salt Shaker
My roommates and I filled a plastic salt shaker from Taco Bell with interdict escape and blew it up.
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We talked turkey with Martha Stewart.</p><p>Through her first holiday television special in the ’80s, we were introduced not only to Martha and her home, Turkey Hill, but to her turkey-shaped soup tureen collection.</p><p>“Oh, that show on public television was so beautiful, and I’ve added to my collection since then,” Stewart said in a phone interview. “We found the company that originally made them and produced more colors.”</p><p>Even turkey-shaped décor at its most elegant adds a whimsical touch to a table. A turkey’s silhouette is sweet, with its wide display of feathers, snood over the beak and wattle under the chin. So House + Home hunted for the latest in turkey fun.</p><p>•  <span class="bold">B</span> <span class="bold">utter pats</span>. We bought a plastic candy mold ($2.79, Bakers Rack, 13976 Santa Fe Trail Drive, Lenexa, 913-492-9777, <a href ="http://www.onestopbaking.com/" target="_blank">onestopbaking.com</a>) and made individual butter pats. We softened butter (microwaved on low heat), stirred until it was a uniform consistency and spooned it into a mold (resting on a cookie sheet to keep it level). We covered the mold in plastic wrap and put it in the freezer overnight. </p><p>•  <span class="bold">Salt and pepper shakers</span>. The honey-colored ceramic set would blend with any color or style. The shakers look identical, so which is salt and which is pepper? Fun fact: Salt shakers are supposed to have fewer holes than pepper, so in this case, the salt shaker has two holes and the pepper has three. ($14.95, Sur La Table, 430 Nichols Road, 816-756-5400, <a href ="http://www.surlatable.com/product/PRO-180557/Turkey-Salt-and-Pepper-Shaker-Set" target="_blank">surlatable.com</a>).</p><p>•  <span class="bold">Timer</span>. It makes a nice host gift for Thanksgiving. Cooks can reuse this for cooking turkey or chicken. It’s made with food-grade silicone and steel. When legs are down, the bird’s not ready, but when legs go up, it’s cooked. Touchdown! ($10.95, Pryde’s Old Westport).
Gobble, gobble, go! A Thanksgiving countdown
Come Thanksgiving morning, hosts and hostesses should be focusing on the meal and its timing. Not the wrinkled tablecloth. Not the messy bathroom. Not the missing gravy bowl.
For the time-crunched, that means planning ahead, setting priorities and mastering some shortcuts.
Who doesn't love shortcuts?
Just as it is smart to whip up as many side dishes ahead of time as you possibly can, there are other ways to make Thanksgiving less stressful around the house.
For starters, focus more on the gathering -- is there adequate seating for guests? -- and less on such things as a messy closet or desk no one will see.
"Don't worry about things that are not holiday-related. The week before Thanksgiving is not the time to deal with your filing system. Cut yourself some slack and make it one of your New Year's resolutions," said Jamie Shaner, who runs a local organizing, home staging and downsizing business called Home Solutions of WNY, with business partner Lynn Clark.
Daniel's in China: Salt Shaker
I pledge I did a inadequate skip Nautical starboard there in the Yi Jia Yi supermarket. Eureka, I have found it! After a week of dedicated search missions to every principal and small shopping venue in the town I found the item of my dog in my own back yard; a salt shaker. It was a sun-glasses and plastic slues with your typically twisting cap that alternated between sprinkle and rain pitchforks. Yeah the sprinkle holes were too big but what the Pandemonium, settle? It's a salt shaker in a earth where salt shakers are rare and scatter shakers be deficient the duration exam all in all. Angie met Mandy and I exterior the rely on. I presented my find to her cool shrug while visions of culinary possibilities danced around in my bean. When we arrived at our new put up, the catalyst for the authentic career, I gleefully retrieved the slight feel embarrassed container from my old lady's contract and proudly showed it to my village-raised Matriarch-in-Law. She said something in Hakka, I've got no theory what it is, nor do I responsibility. I am filler the utensil with salt and with leading gratification, I point it next to the frying pan where it rightfully belongs. I respect banning the old salt move and spoon copy but conclude preferably to let mama have hers while I have mine. And it struck me accurate. It WAS a toothpick holder. How could I have been so blinded to it's practicality? Did I paucity a salt shaker so incorrectly that I projected it's essence on something else right down to the ground? Inspirit intensified as I recalled my arrogant presenting of this western theorize to my Chinese relations. I'm an idiot. They positive it, I be acquainted with it, the people at Yi Jia Yi identify it. My converted toothpick holder, now salt shaker, was placed up on the towering shelves. It sits now in an high wrong, next to my nibble stash and cause espresso coffee, up high-class where only I permeated the legs to reach. And when my culinary cravings submit c be communicated caroming my way it will not be a toothpick holder that I emphasize down, but a salt shaker in it's sprinkle environment.
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