How to Prepare Turkey Dressing Cincinnati Bed Bug Style!

Thanksgiving will soon be upon us and we have so much to be thankful for here in Cincinnati and yes, that includes bed bugs.

Instead of just letting those little bugs run loose in your sofa or bed, make them a part of your Thanksgiving!

Here’s now to make turkey dressing, Cincinnati bed bug style.

Prep: 20 minutes
Bake: 30 minutes

Serves: 11

ingredients

2 1/2 cups chicken Broth (Regular or Certified Organic)
Generous dash ground black pepper
2 stalks celery, coarsely chopped (about 1 cup)

2 cups of Cincinnati bed bugs
1 large onion, coarsely chopped (about 1 cup)
1 pkg. (16 ounces) Pepperidge Farm® Herb Seasoned Stuffing

Caution: Put a cover over those two cups of Cincinnati bed bugs. They may try to escape!

directions

Heat the oven to 350°F. Heat the broth, black pepper, celery, bed bugs and onion in a 3-quart saucepan over medium-high heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for 5 minutes or until the vegetables and bed bugs are tender. Remove the saucepan from the heat. Add the stuffing and mix lightly.

Spoon the stuffing mixture into a greased 3-quart casserole dish. Cover and bake for 30 minutes or until hot.

Tip: For crunchier bed bugs, bake the casserole uncovered.

Tip: Cranberry & Pecan Stuffing: Stir 1/2 cup each dried cranberries and chopped pecans into the stuffing mixture.

Tip: Sausage & Mushroom Stuffing: Add 1 cup sliced mushrooms to the vegetables during cooking. Stir 1/2 pound cooked and crumbled pork sausage into the stuffing mixture.

Tip: Add live Cincinnati bed bugs to the top of the dressing to give the dressing some motion.

Serving Suggestion: Serve with a store-bought rotisserie chicken or turkey breast and steamed whole green beans. For dessert, serve Cincinnati bed bug key lime pie.

Enjoy your Cincinnati bed bug turkey dressing. Take a bite of those little bugs before they take a bite out of you!

(Photo of delightful Cincinnati bed bug turkey dressing found on Google)

My Goose is Cooked

No, actually my goose isn’t cooked at all, but hopefully my one o’clock this afternoon, it will be.

Since I’ll be on the road to Pittsburgh on Thanksgiving Day, I’m having my kids over later for dinner and this morning, I’m roasting a goose.

I ordered it from Kroger and picked it up Friday afternoon. I spent forty-four dollars for an eleven pound goose. Kind of expensive—don’t you think?

I think it will be worth it. A few years ago I fixed my first goose and it turned out pretty well. Let’s see if history can repeat itself.

Some of you have been asking when I’m going to get back to doing those “That Was the Week That Was—In Blogs” posts on Sunday. I’ll start those up again at some point, but not today. Today, especially this morning, I’ll be draining fat from that goose in the oven.

(Photo from realfoodmyway.com)

The Magic Touch of Roger Ach

Have you read the Living Out Loud column in CityBeat this week? I got Doug Taylor to write one—“Unemployed: My View.”

I’ve known Doug for a few years now. We agree on almost nothing. He’s very conservative and I’m a bit of a liberal, but he’s a good guy and yeah, we’re friends.

In the column, he talks about his unemployment days and about getting screwed “without the proverbial kiss.”

The person doing the screwing in this case is a dear, dear friend of this blog, Roger Ach.

Yes, good old Roger and his magic touch. What would we do here in Cincinnati without him? Oh yeah, perhaps have a better life.

Doug and Lucy Plum, if I don’t see you before Thanksgiving, have a great turkey day—and to Roger Ach, of course, you are the turkey.

(Photo of turkey from Business Courier)

Question of the Week

You know what next Thursday is, right? It’s Thanksgiving Day.

For the past few years, a friend here in Cincinnati has invited me to drive down to Pittsburgh with him on that day. Most of his family still lives there and he usually spends Thanksgiving weekend with them.

Every year I find a reason not to go, but this year, I’ll be making the trip with him. On Thanksgiving morning, I’ll be on the road to Pittsburgh.

That’s my plan for the day. What’s yours?

(Photo from oshea.net)

Exciting News: We’re Adding a New Category!

As we start our second year, we’ve decided to add a new category. From time to time, we’re going to talk about . . . . . books!

keep it down, people. Keep it down.

The most talked about book right now is Sarah Palin’s, but she’s not really a writer at all. Who’s the writer’s writer?

You can vote on this by taking part in a voting game put together by The Huffington Post. Click here to get to it, or you can simply tell us your favorite writer right here in the comment section.

Isn’t this great! Aren’t you excited?

(Image from artsjournal.com)

A Year of This

This is a big day in Cincinnati. Why? This blog turns one year old!

What? Mr. Mayor—no key to the city?

When we started this thing a year ago, we didn’t want it to turn into the old CityBeat LOL Blog where we were doing 16 to 20 posts a week and where it turned pretty dumb at times. Here, we’ve kept it to six or seven posts a week and while we can be silly at times, I don’t think we’re very often stupid.

Over the past year, we haven’t done much to promote ourselves. Rick Hines was nice enough to put us on his Cincinnati Nation blogroll, but we decided at the beginning to keep it small and let people find us.

And they have. Thanks to all who visit us here on purpose. Really. People do click on here intentionally.

Some don’t. It’s interesting how some people find us.

If someone is doing a Google search on bed bugs, sooner or later, they will end up here. The same holds true for people searching for thongs, kittens and naked people (naked people? What’s that about?)

Over the past year, we’ve written a lot of posts about local businessman Roger Ach and everyday someone is looking for him. I consider this a good thing.

And lately, a lot of people living in the UK have been visiting us because of Stacey Solomon and that X-Factor television show. Do you think people over there know what Skyline Chili is?

Anyway, again, thanks for thinking of us and coming here. We’ll keep doing it. Blogging has become a habit. A good one or a bad one? I haven’t decided yet.

(Image from blog.clarian.org)

Queen Stacey Solomon

No, Stacey isn’t really a queen—just a play on words. Yes, I’m attempting to be clever.

Saturday night on X-Factor was Queen Night—you know the musical group—and Stacey performed their “Who Wants to live Forever” flawlessly. If you want to see her performance, click here.

And to see highlights of the show, click here and to find out who had to go home, click here.

And to those who complain about us doing these weekly Stacey updates, because they have nothing to do with us here locally, don’t read them. In other words, click out.

(Photo from virginmedia.com)

Waking Up to the Beautiful Sounds of — Starlings?

One of the things I like best in the spring and summer is getting up in the morning, going outside with my cup of coffee and listen to the birds sing. To me, it’s the perfect way to start the day.

Now its fall and winter is approaching. Now, when I go outside, I’m listening to the beautiful sounds (not really) of starlings. We seem to have a bunch of them here in Westwood.

I can’t force myself to call it singing. Actually it’s just an annoying noise—but watching starlings can be mesmerizing. Take a look at this video.

Interesting isn’t it? I’ve never seen robins do this.

(Photo found on Google)

Thinking of Jim Knippenberg

Reporter and columnist Jim Knippenberg passed away Friday at his home in Covington. He was 63 years old and worked for the Cincinnati Enquirer for 37 years. It did my heart good to see that the Enquirer did a very nice tribute to him. Click here to read it.

Before I gave up on the Enquirer all together, for me, there was only two reasons to pick it up—to see Jim Borgman’s political cartoons and to read Jim Knippenberg’s column. He was humorous and irreverent, not your typical Cincinnati writer.

He, along with Borgman, got forced out at the Enquirer in September of last year, calling it “retirement.” I know newspapers all over the country are suffering and cutting back, but I could never figure out why the Enquirer would let their two most important assets in print slip away.

For whatever reason, Knippenberg and I never met. If we had, I would have asked him how he felt about his retirement, if he missed writing a column. Something tells me would have said he did miss it. Just recently he had started writing a monthly column for Cincinnati Magazine.

From everything I’ve heard and read about him, Knippenberg was a great guy—a hometown boy who made good. He’ll be missed.

(Photo from the Cincinnati Enquirer)

Boob Carrie Prejean Should Have Known That Most Larries are Inappropriate

God loving and gay hating Carrie Prejean went on Larry King Wednesday night to promote her new book.

She looked so pretty with her fake smile and fake boobs, but then Larry, being the hard-hitting interviewer that he is (I’m so kidding here), started asking questions that Carrie didn’t want to answer.

Larry wanted details on her “confidential” lawsuit, but Carrie wasn’t having any part of it. Yes indeed, Larry was being inappropriate and Carrie let him know it several times. Here, take a look.

She looked so cute putting Larry in his place, but the thing that amazes me is that Carrie should have known that most Larries are inappropriate.

Carrie, I’m a Larry too and some weeks back, I wrote about your fake boobs.

Now so far I haven’t written about your home made sex tape, but no doubt I probably will because most Larries enjoy being inappropriate. Take this piece of information, my dear child, and learn from it.

God bless you, Carrie.

(Inappropriate image found on Google)