1. FreshDirect is running a promotion: an order of $40 gets you get a free 10-14 lb. turkey. Now, did you really think I could turn down a free turkey? Of course not! Why would I pay to have a nice relaxed Thankgiving in a restaurant when we could all stay home while I freak out, making a ridiculously huge meal for two adults and a preschooler, with my free turkey? Holiday memories! Yee-haw! So… yeah, any tried and tested, easy yet delightful turkey recipes for me?
2. In the last year, my husband and I have realized our kid is super sensitive to artificial food dyes — especially red. A piece of bubblegum-flavored pink Trident will turn our normally good-natured kid into a miserable, shrieking wretch. So, when I saw candy canes on the shelves Saturday, my initial reaction of yay, candy canes! was immediately replaced by shit, no candy canes? I can’t let there be Christmas without candy canes. I know this is a long shot, but do any of you know where (either online or here in NYC) I can find candy canes with no artificial color?
I have seen white candy canes in CVS and Walmart during the holiday season. Plus green and white candy canes.
Here’s a link for white candy canes
http://www.groovycandies.com/V2ProdDetail1.asp?Product_ID=7226
They also have blue candy canes ( I don’t know. For half Jewish kids???) but there still might be red dye.
Free turkey. Take it. Even if you ruin it, it was FREE.
Oh my. I’m going away for Thanksgiving and yet I’m trying to figure out how I can store a free turkey in my tiny freezer.
I believe Whole Foods has all-natural candy canes. They did last year.
Also, can you email me? I want to invite you to an NYC food bloggers holiday dinner.
My kid calls Whole Foods “the Nothing-Here-Has-Red-Dye-In-It Store” — I suspected they’d have candy canes. Good to know!
I’m emailing you now!