Our friends from Albuquerque, Seth and Luci, joined us in Miami for
the festive occasion.
Much to our surprise, he PROPOSED to her on Thanksgiving. Yep, the
wedding is on the horizon. (Photo at left) Our local friends, Philip
and Gray also came over. Unfortunately the kitchen sink clogged during
meal preparation, and Phil & Gray spent heroic hours attempting to
unclog it. The in-sinkerator overheated and died, and the sink stayed clogged.
We had to pay a plumber $140.00 the next day to fix the sink.
Back to the focus of this production: the turkey. We had joked about frying a turkey for years. Stories of deep-fried turkeys seemed to be more myth than fact, and we took great joy in speculating about the cardiac health of anyone foolish enough to come within ten feet of a turkey fried in peanut oil. Our mockery ended when the November issue of Martha Stewart's Living Magazine featured a fried turkey for her bourgeois multi-death corporate posed-as-real-human-being Thanksgiving dinner. This was all the validation needed. We decided to prepare our turkey the heart-stopping way -- by frying it in peanut oil.
The basic elements of our enterprise were simple: