Goose Watch

[revena]

Mom: Can I borrow the Joy of Cooking I gave you for Christmas? I want to check how long it takes too cook a goose.

Me: Sure. And the answer is "longer than you think."

Mom: *reads* *mutters* *counts on fingers, and makes strange, goose-semaphore-type signals* Three hours. So if we want to eat at six, we should put it in at three.

Me: There's no way that the goose will be done in three hours. You have never cooked a goose in three hours in your life. You should really put it in now.

Mom: It's only noon. I don't want Christmas Dinner at three.

Me: But it's gonna take like five or six hours, not three.

Mom: Well, I guess I could put it in a little early. It's hard to overcook a goose. But I still think it'll be done in three hours.

Me: Why don't you put it in at, like, one thirty? Or maybe two?

Mom: Okay.

Mom, at three: *begins preparing goose*

If we actually sit down to eat at six, I will ingest a chapeau.

ETA: Here's a pic of me wearing some of my Christmas clothes, using my graduation camera, and transferred to my laptop via the card reader I just got. I'm standing in my mother's bathroom, btw, if anyone is curious. God, that bathroom is nice. The tub is a thing of great beauty.

Comments

[aphrodeia.livejournal.com]

Ah, moms. They're so special. :D

[revena.livejournal.com]

Indeed they are.

*loves my mother* *also wants to strangle her, a little*

[aphrodeia.livejournal.com]

AHA. That's the way of the world. I'm flying home tomorrow morning, and I'll have a whole week to remember why I'm glad I moved to Ohio.

[miggy.livejournal.com]

Three hours for a goose.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Um, eat snacks between now and the eventual dinner?

[revena.livejournal.com]

Oh man, yeah. I've already eaten the novelty snacks that came in my stocking this morning... And Mom's frying the goose giblets in order to make gravy right now, and she says I can have some of them when they're cooked.

Hehe... Goose liver is even tastier than chicken liver, you know!

[miggy.livejournal.com]

AUGH WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.

[revena.livejournal.com]

I JUST ATE THE LIVER. IT WAS DELICIOUS. I WOULD DO IT AGAIN, GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY.

[miggy.livejournal.com]

You know who else liked liver?

Rosemary.

To feed her HELL BABY.

[revena.livejournal.com]

My mother had liver for dinner the night she went into labor with me. Perhaps this is all somehow related?

[moonglows.livejournal.com]

Oooo, I love that tub, and I love that outfit! :)

[revena.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The cardigan came from J. Jill, I know. Not sure where Mom got the tank top.

Oh man, that tub is big enough that I can actually get fully submerged in it. Beautiful.