The mister did it again. He was in charge of purchasing airline tickets for an upcoming trip...he said he would take care of it - leave it to him - he's got this. Should have known better. Mister and Missus Indecisive (the mister and moi) changed their minds/plans after he had purchased the tickets, a little fact that the mister declined to inform the missus of...it wasn't until the mister was sent into a spasm of uncontrolled kanniptions when he was told by Delta, "Sorry sir, but we do NOT refund money, you have one year to use the tickets and if you want to change them, you'll have to pay a fee..." that the missus was given ALL of the facts. But it doesn't end there...nope, again without consultation, the mister paid Delta $500 and rebooked the tickets...I'm pretty sure we would have had a lot more fun just flushing 500 one dollar bills down the shi$$er than GIVING them to DELTA for yet another one of HIS mistakes! I'll bet you're wondering where the mister is taking me? Not to Washington, DC like we had planned, or to New York, like we had discussed, or to Banff, which is on my bucket list and the mister knows I really want to go...no, none of those places. So I should be given some kind of badge for containing my excitement when the mister informed me, all jovial and giddy that he had rebooked our tickets to Knoxville so we could go see a University of Tennessee Basketball game. Oh, he had already bought the game tickets. And he's so happy. Happy, happy, happy. Me? Not so much.
The mister is going to be the death of me. Nothing wrong with Tennessee, or Knoxville, nothing at all...but when you've had your heart set on one place and you get another...well, you get my drift. Now that THAT is off my chest, let's cut to the meat of this post - literally. Let's talk turkey. As in Fried Turkey for T-Day. We've talked a lot about turkey - I've chatted with many of you over the years about turkey...we all love turkey and a lot of us love fried turkey but we just don't want to risk an explosion or time in a burn unit or the house going up in flames! Watch the video clip above...who needs that?!? I was THRILLED to find out from my BFF Chris at Nibble Me This (who just so happens to live in Knoxville!) about this NEW oil-less turkey fryer!!! Chris is going to give one away on his blog - and I just had to tell you about it - I know you will want one as much as me, and what better way to get one than to win it?!
Look, this is a dream come true for me!! I'm getting nothing, nada, zilch from this telling you about this NEW fryer from Char-Broil - it's called The Big Easy. Go visit Chris, read all about The Big Easy oil-less turkey fryer and enter his contest...if you win, you can thank me by frying me up a turkey and Fed-Exing it to me by T-Day. That's all. I require so little.
Pic on left courtesy of Nibble Me This, hope you don't mind me lifting it Chris! By the way, when we come to Knoxville I will give you plenty of notice so you can fry me up a turkey!
The contest ends November 11th so get a move on.
I'm not lucky when it comes to contests so I checked with our local Home Depot about buying one - they are SOLD OUT!! I also checked with Char-Broil and they are on back-order...it will be 4 to 6 weeks before they get them in. So while we won't be having fried turkey for Thanksgiving (unless I win the contest, and then I'll be frying a turkey a day from now till Kingdom Come!) we will be having an oil-less fried turkey for Christmas!!! (Here' more good news...The Big Easy, with it's accessory kit AND shipping is under $175.00...not too shabby! Did you SEE that SANTA?!?!?!)
