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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hi, Bluesky! If you already have a dressing recipe that’s your “if I don’t have my grandma’s dressing I’ll die” thanksgiving requirement, you should make that one and have a great Thursday.

If you don’t have one, now you have mine, with duck fat and focaccia. With all my heart, I hope you enjoy it.

A casserole dish of Thanksgiving dressing made with duck fat and focaccia

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Are you sick of Thanksgiving advice yet? Here's some more of it.

- The thing your spread is lacking is acid. Make a punchy green sauce of your choosing (chermoula, gremolata, salsa verde, whatever your favorite combination of fresh leafy herbs is) and put it on everything.
- Add a splash of sherry vinegar to your gravy right before serving. Acid!
- Make your own stock. Store-bought is a fine weeknight stand-in, but you're better than that here.

And now we're going to talk about dressing. This is a multi-day ordeal, and if you're already thinking "I'm not doing that", that's totally fine, it's 2024 and if you're done you're done.

But if you're us, which is "people who need a really elaborate project to make themselves feel anything", great! Let's make focaccia.

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Tuesday night, start Samin Nosrat's Ligurian Focaccia recipe. Yes, you're going to make focaccia. Great news: it's to make into cubes for stuffing, so who cares if you've been making focaccia for fifteen years and can't shape a loaf for shit?

Her recipe is perfect so we won't waste more precious characters here. Bake the focaccia Wednesday. Eat like half of it; you deserve a treat.

Now we're to Thursday. Set the oven to 350. Cube up the focaccia you didn't eat in chunks as big as you like 'em for your stuffing. Bake the cubes for ten minutes or so to dry 'em out. Pull when crunchy.

You need a leg of duck confit. Homemade if ya nasty, store-bought if you're now in "bitch I already made focaccia" territory. Crisp up the leg of duck confit in a skillet. Add a stick of butter and melt it.

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In that resulting duck fat/butter, you're gonna soften 2.5c onion and 1.5c celery.

Now in a big-ass bowl you're going to combine:
- The now-toasted focaccia (like 10c if you're measuring)
- That onion/celery combo
- Shred that duck leg
- 1/2c parsley
- 2T sage
- 1T rosemary
- 1T thyme
- 2T salt
- Healthy cracks of black pepper
- 2.5c broth (again, homemade preferably but love yourself
- 2 eggs

Pour into a 9x13 casserole and cover. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes covered, then uncover it and give it an extra 40.

Happy thanksgiving! Don't fuck up your turkey.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 16h

It’s 11:45. I have not taken a shower. Final pork shoulder just came off the smoker. I need to be in the kitchen in four and a half hours. I spent twelve hours cooking today. I am definitely absolutely not done packing the car. Condiment bottles not filled.

Come eat. Bring your favorite hot sauce.

Two pork shoulders snuggling in a hot smoker, which sounds like a euphemism but isn’t

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 1d

These are my favorite kinds of AI search results. I'd like to think that one percent of Lake Erie vanishes with each return like this.

A fake screenshot of someone querying "the name of a local business (I just want to see their hours)" on Google. The AI overview responds with:

Oh, shit. Don't panic. We'll get through this. Here is what your mysterious query might actually mean.

• Local businesses tend to have names: This helps people distinguish different businesses from each other. For example, Target can't be also called "Home Depot" because that would create confusion.

• Businesses that are local take less time to reach than businesses far away: If choosing between two businesses, keep in mind that if one of them is in a different state or country, it will take you longer to get there.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 2d

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 2d

today is the day I truly joined the hospitality industry*

*cried in the Restaurant Depot parking lot

Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 2d

Truly, leave the non-bakers among us alone. I live in San Francisco. I can walk to a bare minimum of twenty varieties of bread in ten minutes, and they’re all better than mine. Bread is homebrew for the COVID era.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

a big thing i learned about myself during covid is that i just want to buy a goddamned baguette from the store or the bakery, i literally never want to make the damned thing myself

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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 3d

lesson: never let people’s “feedback” get in the way of jokes that are fucking stupid that you find tremendously funny

Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 3d

the first time I ever taught a 3D rigging course to a room of 600 freshmen I stood in front of a giant lecture hall and said “okay say I’m a model” and I kinda held for laughs and they were all so either disinterested or terrified to laugh that I kept that joke in for YEARS of teaching

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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 3d

As a woman running a BBQ popup who used to teach animation, I am gonna need to figure out a better way to describe what brisket is.

Let me explain. Caveat that I’m a larger person.

A man just asked and I hunched over and was like “okay pretend I’m a cow” and his face told me that was the wrong way

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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 3d

I know leaving the parking lot at Dodger Stadium sucks, but 2/3 of the stadium leaving an NLDS game in the eighth inning because your team’s losing is and will always be pathetic.

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 4d

Blue Jays fans have their own "Wow" GIF now. Take it from Giants fans, it's the GIF that keeps on giving.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 5d

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d

Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, is asking for people to pray for her sister’s health.

Verified Facebook post by Freida Parton. The caption reads:

“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you! ❤️”

Below the caption is a photo of Dolly Parton standing outdoors in front of lush green ivy, hands clasped in prayer, wearing a shiny silver outfit with lace-trimmed sleeves, her signature blonde hair styled in soft curls, looking upward serenely.

Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 5d

This fucking glop. And I do not mean the general concept of onion dip - that is very good! No I mean this shit that when the jar is low I straight up shake Ruffles into the jar, crush them up and eat it with a spoon.

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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 5d

My message to Bengals upper management

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 5d

Truly: why

Dianna Russini @diannarussini.bsky.social · 5d

TRADE: The Bengals are acquiring Joe Flacco and a sixth-round pick from the Browns for a fifth-round pick, sources say.

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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 6d

San Francisco heat update:

you can bring a milkshake to your local bar and the bartender will put whiskey in it as long as you bring them one too

Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 6d

the caption of the photo underneath the paragraph that mentions me made me laugh out loud and I recommend it very much

TK @40goingon28.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote about Hardly Strictly at 25, the living room chair of music festivals

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The Billionaire's Treat

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass turns 25

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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 7d

I am personally responsible for a very real percentage of the views on this video, it’s my favorite

Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 7d

omg THIS is how I learned that, she’s an angel

Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 7d

They’re playing HSB at 2:10 today and while I really think my festival days are behind me, I’m on the edge of going just to see them

Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 7d

Serotonin boost for your Sunday:

I think a lot about the moment in this I’m With Her performance at 3:53 where the camera cuts to Chris Thile inconsolably losing his shit

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Hannah Hunt (Vampire Weekend) - I'm With Her | Live from Here with Chris Thile

YouTube video by Radio Heartland

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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s our pork shoulder or whatever. We’re doing smothered tots. This is all very silly and I’m exploding with excitement.

Two giant chunks of smoked pork shoulder propped up against each other on a sheet pan on my railing

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Jen Watson @jwatson.bsky.social · 7d

Late night Bay Area sky:

Starting a residency with my barbecue popup at the Fishbowl on Divis next Sunday during the Niners game. It is a bonkers opportunity for me and current projections for the menu are way too ambitious but I’m dumb and wanna.

Roll through. Holler @ me if we know each other 🥰

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haunted Je-ride 🎃 grampy radish @naptime.theolive.garden · 7d

I truly hope someone who does this submits a piece to @tacobellquarterly.org, an unaffiliated literary magazine that’s in the library of congress

NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 8d

The race, now in its eighth year, is described as the “World’s Most Gastricly Demanding Ultramarathon” and asks its participants to run 50 kilometers, stop at 10 Taco Bells and eat a menu item from at least nine of those stops, all in under 11 hours. on.nbcboston.com/ikB15Dp

Hundreds plan to run the ‘Taco Bell 50k,’ the ‘World’s Most Gastricly Demanding Ultramarathon’

The organizers highly recommend engaging in “gastric training” prior to the event.

on.nbcboston.com

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