twelve hours

In twelve hours my neighborhood will begin it's annual fry-day. Every Wednesday before Thanksgiving, for the last several years my neighborhood (well street...well a few families) has gotten together to fry turkeys for Thanksgiving. There are precise mathematical calculations on how long to cook each turkey to it's full tastiness. After everyone's turkeys are fried, we then raid our cabinets and pantries and freezers to fry obscure and classic foods. The classics of course being french fries twinkies onions and candy bars...some of the more obscure have been butter, ice cream bars, pickles, among many others. This years addition: cookie dough and buttermilk pie. Buttermilk Pie is one of my favorite desserts for Thanksgiving...We always have to make it because it is often the only pie I will eat. This year for our fry-day experiment we made the pie (the recipe for the pie calls for no pie crust. we usually make it with one although for this we followed the exact directions). Tomorrow we will wrap it in pie crust dough and fry it. Stay tuned for how this turns out.

As weird as it seems this is probably my favorite tradition of the year. Especially now being in college it gives me a chance to see my neighbors who I don't see very often as well as getting to enjoy being around my family.

This is Danny's second fry-day and he will probably think we are all crazy but hey he's gotta realize it sometime.

While frying turkeys and other foods are good, it is important to note that the people who mess with the oil do so very carefully and don't mess around. They follow instructions on how to fry these foods so they do not cause damage to anyone or anything. If you plan on frying your turkey or anything make sure to use caution.

Stay tuned to see how our tasty foods turn out.

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and to all my fellow college friends have a great time at home with your friends and family and ENJOY the break from school. If you have school work do it but make sure you have a chance to relax and hang out with your family.

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and eat LOTS of food :)