Wednesday Miscellany

I attended my friend Murro's (fifth?) annual turkey dunk this weekend. Fun times. If you think deep frying a turkey sounds delicious, try doing a whole duck! Decadent.

The turkey and sweet potato fries were great, too. The one sad part: we never got around to deep frying pumpkin pie, as was threatened at about 11 p.m.

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Another thing I wish I'd thought of: Car-B-Que.

This idea of cooking food from an engine's heat is a great use for excess engine warmth, provided your meals don't spill out and ruin your engine. It brings the Hot Dogger idea to the masses by expanding from snowmobiles to cars.

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Local update: The grand opening of the Chapel Hill Trader Joe's will begin with a ceremonial lei cutting at 8:45 a.m. Bet they'll sell a lot of coffee.