Greg In The Desert

New Mexico is in the news with video of a University of New Mexico woman’s soccer player beating the shit out of BYU players. The video of Elizabeth Lambert has been making it’s way across the web and although KOB says all of the video of Elizabeth Lambert has been removed from YouTube, I found a video from the Associated Press which shows some of the incidents.

The Lobo’s website has a profile page up for Elizabeth Lambert which states:

Born Elizabeth Ann Lambert on December 29, 1988 … enjoys camping and surfing in her spare time … favorite food is tacos … is majoring in University Studies with a focus on Occupational Therapy

There’s a Occupational Therapy joke in there somewhere. What the profile fails to mention is that she was indefinitely suspended from UNM soccer. Although her official statement was that she was sorry (I hope so), I really wonder what her deal is. I hope she tells more about why she was so rough.

I enjoy cooking. I’m no master chef, but I’m think I’m pretty good at the small list of things I can make. One of my favorite things to make is Thanksgiving dinner.

Assuming people aren’t just being nice, I’ve received good reviews on my turkeys. There’s no secret to how I make it, I follow Alton Brown’s recipe pretty much verbatim.

Thanksgiving isn’t thanksgiving without mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes are my favorite food. I’ve spent years trying to perfect the recipes and a few years ago I found something that allows me to cheat. The Steam’N Mash by Westinghouse. I does a good job at making mashed potatoes, but it’s nearly as fun to watch and/or demonstrate the machine.

Finally, I have started making home made turkey gray in the last few years. My favorite so far is generically called Turkey Neck Gravy. There’s many variations of it, this website seems to have the basic recipe that I use. I only use the neck, the heart and gizzard go in the trash. Animal organs shouldn’t be eaten as far as I’m concerned. I also like to add mushroom, then again I like to add mushrooms to everything.

I won’t be making the main thanksgiving dinner this year. I will be making 15lbs turkey on Saturday.