Last week I headed back to Columbus to spend Thanksgiving with the Bornstein family. We typically have a small affair in Galveston, with 5-6 people, but early reports form intelligence officials had the Bornstein count at 24ish.
I arrived in Columbus on Monday night---it was quite a shock to remember how cold it gets in Ohio. I got on the plane in San Francisco at the temperature was in the mid seventies, when I got off of the plane in Columbus, it was mid thirties. I, for one, am perfectly happy knowing that snow exists somewhere in the world. I am also perfectly happy knowing that that somewhere is far away from where I reside.
Bryanne's father works for the NHL team in Columbus---he is an expert on concussions, and is employed by the Blue Jackets to keep hockey players from playing through the pain. Consequently, they have season tickets, and I caught a couple of hockey games while in town. I had never really watched a hockey game, and I have to say that it is a fast paced and exciting sport. There's not a lot of strategy when it comes to offense or defense---in this sense it is a bit like basketball, where you rely mainly on the ability of the defense to react to the offense, rather than on the ability of a coach to predict what the offense will do. It looks like (to my untrained eye) that you have to rely a lot on individual players doing their jobs. In a sport like football, though, playcalling and game management is much more important.
Bryanne's mom was very prepared for Thanksgiving dinner. She baked four pies the night before, and had ordered two ten pound turkey breasts from the turkey farmer at Columbus's
North Market, and had them brined. The day of Thanksgiving just involved cooking the turkeys, and preparing the various side dishes.
Of course, I have to have my grandmother's zucchini casserole, which is actually pretty easy to make. It's like Atkins friendly stuffing: there's zucchini, red bell peppers, onion, garlic, bread crumbs, parmesean cheese, breakfast sausage and eggs in it. Basically, you boiled the zucchini until it gets mushy, then saute the peppers, onions, sausage and garlic and dump everything together in a big mixing bowl and mash it up. I boiled the zucchini in chicken stock instead of water. Then you add an egg or two, some bread crumbs, and I added some parmesean cheese. Put the whole thing in a casserole dish and top it with parmesean cheese, and bake it for a while until it's firm and delicious. I think it went over pretty well.
It was a pretty grand affair, if only 14 of 24 people actually made the trip to Columbus. Mrs. Bornstein got the opportunity to showcase her new table, and there was more than enough food and pie to go around. Overall it was a wonderful week off, although I did sneak some physics in at odd times.
I arrived in Columbus on Monday night---it was quite a shock to remember how cold it gets in Ohio. I got on the plane in San Francisco at the temperature was in the mid seventies, when I got off of the plane in Columbus, it was mid thirties. I, for one, am perfectly happy knowing that snow exists somewhere in the world. I am also perfectly happy knowing that that somewhere is far away from where I reside.
Bryanne's father works for the NHL team in Columbus---he is an expert on concussions, and is employed by the Blue Jackets to keep hockey players from playing through the pain. Consequently, they have season tickets, and I caught a couple of hockey games while in town. I had never really watched a hockey game, and I have to say that it is a fast paced and exciting sport. There's not a lot of strategy when it comes to offense or defense---in this sense it is a bit like basketball, where you rely mainly on the ability of the defense to react to the offense, rather than on the ability of a coach to predict what the offense will do. It looks like (to my untrained eye) that you have to rely a lot on individual players doing their jobs. In a sport like football, though, playcalling and game management is much more important.
Bryanne's mom was very prepared for Thanksgiving dinner. She baked four pies the night before, and had ordered two ten pound turkey breasts from the turkey farmer at Columbus's North Market, and had them brined. The day of Thanksgiving just involved cooking the turkeys, and preparing the various side dishes.
Of course, I have to have my grandmother's zucchini casserole, which is actually pretty easy to make. It's like Atkins friendly stuffing: there's zucchini, red bell peppers, onion, garlic, bread crumbs, parmesean cheese, breakfast sausage and eggs in it. Basically, you boiled the zucchini until it gets mushy, then saute the peppers, onions, sausage and garlic and dump everything together in a big mixing bowl and mash it up. I boiled the zucchini in chicken stock instead of water. Then you add an egg or two, some bread crumbs, and I added some parmesean cheese. Put the whole thing in a casserole dish and top it with parmesean cheese, and bake it for a while until it's firm and delicious. I think it went over pretty well.
It was a pretty grand affair, if only 14 of 24 people actually made the trip to Columbus. Mrs. Bornstein got the opportunity to showcase her new table, and there was more than enough food and pie to go around. Overall it was a wonderful week off, although I did sneak some physics in at odd times.
1 comment:
There were also enough mashed potatoes to go around.
Bwa ha ha!!!!
<3
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