Football, Food, Football, Food, Football, Sleep.
I mean for crissakes what day, if any, comes close to Thanksgiving.
Wake up, roll around in bed, check out the Thanksgiving Day Parade, maybe toss the pigskin around outside, hopefully it's chilly but not freezing and then off to wherever you go to gorge yourself like a fat road hog. It's awesome.
Going to the in-laws first then back to my fam's house. It's going to get ugly. Quick.
Spanish Thanksgiving first. Then Italian. It's the best of both worlds.
I'd say the speacialty from each would be the Arroz con Gandules Recipe here from the Spanish side and the homeade bread stuffing balls (or the Candy Yams, can't go wrong here) Generic recipe here, I don't know which one Grandma uses, it's her own from the Italian side. I can write so much more about other items but these two stand out. Italians do it a little different than the Spanish. Spanish there is no Antipasto. This usually includes a bunch of salads, some salted meats, cheese, stuffed mushrooms, a clam bake dip maybe, and other lusty appetizers. Spanish just rip right into the bird. Either way you can't go wrong.
Dessert is like wow, can I even eat right now. But it's always so solid you have to. Pies, cookies, cakes, pastries. By that time you want to puke.
I can really write forever about food so I will stop here. I'm sure I already have gotten your tastebuds jumping.
I mean for crissakes what day, if any, comes close to Thanksgiving.
Wake up, roll around in bed, check out the Thanksgiving Day Parade, maybe toss the pigskin around outside, hopefully it's chilly but not freezing and then off to wherever you go to gorge yourself like a fat road hog. It's awesome.
Going to the in-laws first then back to my fam's house. It's going to get ugly. Quick.
Spanish Thanksgiving first. Then Italian. It's the best of both worlds.
I'd say the speacialty from each would be the Arroz con Gandules Recipe here from the Spanish side and the homeade bread stuffing balls (or the Candy Yams, can't go wrong here) Generic recipe here, I don't know which one Grandma uses, it's her own from the Italian side. I can write so much more about other items but these two stand out. Italians do it a little different than the Spanish. Spanish there is no Antipasto. This usually includes a bunch of salads, some salted meats, cheese, stuffed mushrooms, a clam bake dip maybe, and other lusty appetizers. Spanish just rip right into the bird. Either way you can't go wrong.
Dessert is like wow, can I even eat right now. But it's always so solid you have to. Pies, cookies, cakes, pastries. By that time you want to puke.
I can really write forever about food so I will stop here. I'm sure I already have gotten your tastebuds jumping.
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For my degenerate buddies out there the 4 games on Thursday, all are worth watching.
12:30 ETA - Packers @ Lions (Pack -3.5)
El Pad's Pick : Packers and the under
Pack are hottttttt, Lions are on their way to a collapse that all the Detroit fans have been telling us about. Remember when the Lions would always find a way to win on Turkey Day and save Wayne Fontes job? Those were the days. BTW Under is 11-4-1 in GB's last 16 vs NFC North and it's also a stellar 7-2 in Detroit's last 9 home games.
4:15 ETA - Jets @ Cowboys (Boys are -13.5)
El Pad's Pick : Lay the two TD's. That Jet win was a fluke and no one other than Brady/Moss is hotter right now than Romo/T.O. (A sharp pain just throttled my heart as I typed that). The Jets stink. Dallas is 8-3 ATS in the last 11 games (all season).
8:15 ETA - Indy @ Atlanta (Indy is -12)
El Pad's Pick : Again, lay the wood. Atlanta is a terrible team with no direction right now. Indy squeaked by a very underated KC team and is troubled by injuries. However when Jeff Garcia blows up your secondary what do you think Peyton Manning will do? Indy has covered 10 out of the last 14 games.
The Turkey Day Teaser
Don't feel like laying the wood? Think all three favorites will win outright? Tease it!
Pack +6.5, Boys - 3.5, Indy -2
Sounds better right.
Bonus NCAA game!!!!!!
8:00 ETA - USC @ ASU (USC -3.5)
El Pad's Pick : ASU +3.5
USC has beaten them 7 straight times, dating back to 1999. I think it's time for some Pac-10 Sun Devil revenge. At home, the whole country wathcing, a chance to throw their hat into the national title talk and , and a chance to beat a team you should absolutely hate. One could argue that this is ASU's biggest game in years. I have to take the home team. By the way if you wanted to throw this in the tease it would look like this:
ASU + 15.5 and the above bets would move up two points each.
Have fun and enjoy. Daddy is off til Friday.
6 comments:
Good stuff(ing), El P. Good analysis of the games. Oddly enough, tryptophan doesn't make me want to sleep, it just makes me want to smoke a bog ol' bag of pot.
this is troof
it's all the carbs/beer/fat/overeating that makes people want to sleep
You mentioned eating, football, and sleep ... shouldn't there be alcohol in there somewhere, as well?
Happy Turkey day!!
~tips drinks~
Cheers.
I'm gonna petition my government. We need to have some eating holiday like that too.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. This year I made a layered pumpkin cheese cake and spinach dip. there were no leftovers. SCORE!
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