{"id":3995,"date":"2009-11-28T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T20:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2009-11-28T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T20:18:43","slug":"thanksgiving-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=3995","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2009."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0023.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138964112\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2487\/4138964112_5e856682f7.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0023.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0029.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138207831\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2608\/4138207831_a7a062ef48.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0029.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year <a title=\"chicagometsfan.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagometsfan.com\">Julie<\/a> and I once again stayed in Chicago for Thanksgiving. \u00a0We had some friends over and fried a turkey. \u00a0As you can tell be the photograph above we&#8217;ve pushed our luck by going with a 13.9 lb turkey. \u00a0This was by far the most dangerous frying attempt we&#8217;ve ever made. \u00a0It took several tense minutes of easing the turkey into the oil to keep the pot from over flowing. \u00a0Moving forward we will stick to a 10-12 lb turkey (and I won&#8217;t wear flip flops during the frying process).<\/p>\n<p>All of the food turned out great and a good time was had by all.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0012.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138952602\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2771\/4138952602_f6df88150a_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0012.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0015.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138192079\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2748\/4138192079_7b439e18d5_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0015.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0008.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138181445\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2742\/4138181445_7d15dc82ef_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0008.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0038.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138982100\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2580\/4138982100_5ac1a614ec_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0038.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0033.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138976116\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2670\/4138976116_1205091eb0_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0033.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0048.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138233825\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2727\/4138233825_85d8e2ea87_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0048.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0045.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138993912\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2502\/4138993912_a6228e5b90_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0045.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0041.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138986062\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2694\/4138986062_0222262006_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0041.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Side notes:<br \/>\n* The aftermath:<br \/>\n<a title=\"DSC_0056.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/4138999774\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2743\/4138999774_cc1c89f004.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0056.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>** Previous turkey frying: <a title=\"Holiday (extended) Weekend.\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2762\">New Years 2008<\/a> &amp; <a title=\"NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field.\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=3104\">New Years 2009<\/a>.<br \/>\n*** At least it didn&#8217;t end this way: \u00a0<a title=\"Columbus Dispatch:  Turkey fryer ignites, spoiling family's holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2009\/11\/27\/turkeyfire.ART_ART_11-27-09_B5_OBFQJNL.html?sid=101\">Columbus Dispatch &#8211; Turkey fryer ignites, spoiling family&#8217;s holiday.<\/a><br \/>\n**** Everything I know about deep frying I learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/img_0081.jpg\">Jack &amp; Eddie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Julie and I once again stayed in Chicago for Thanksgiving. \u00a0We had some friends over and fried a turkey. \u00a0As you can tell be the photograph above we&#8217;ve pushed our luck by going with a 13.9 lb turkey. \u00a0This was by far the most dangerous frying attempt we&#8217;ve ever made. \u00a0It took several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6,7,9],"tags":[87,365,381],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-man","category-cookouts","category-food","category-holiday","tag-chicago","tag-thanksgiving","tag-turkey-fry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-12r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}