Turkey Pot Turkey Pot Turkey Pot Pie

Do you ever cook food that smells or tastes so good you're like "where's my camera?" Ginny cooks food like that all the time. It's awesome. Here's a Turkey Pot Pie she made the other day:

The J. Peterman Catalogue

I once believed, perhaps as you do even now, that J Peterman was simply a fragment of Seinfeld's imagination. I tell you- J Peterman lives and breathes as surely as you or I. He is a real man. Made of flesh and blood, clothed in fantastic and exotic fabrics. His life is full of passion and romance. He has experienced things that the average man can only dream of. And he tells his tales in a catalogue- that he calls an Owners Manual- so that you can wear the clothes that he wore while he was on his adventures.

Ginny recently made me aware of the existence of the manual, and I can't tear my self away. It is intoxicating to read and imagine myself in a far away place and time... Perhaps London, Paris, Munich, or Milan. I see myself standing at the end of a coffee bar having perfected dressing as only Italians seem to know how to get away with. I look spectacular. Beige wool tie. Purple check shirt. Dark Orange scarf. And this amazing three-quarter-length lambskin blazer. Fully lined, hand cut 100% ultra soft lambskin. Four button front with real Corozo buttons. Center back venting. Two besom pockets with flaps, as well as a welt chest pocket. All in a 3/4 length Italian cut. Splendido. Men's even sizes: 38 through 48. Imported. Color: Milano Chocolate. Price: $498

Gina (or Jenna)

We were out for a neighborhood stroll today when we saw a dog running down the middle of a major street.

My wife, being the dog lover she is, knew we had to do something. So... being the athlete that she is... took off running after the dog in her big clompy boots. We finally caught her using Gidget as bait. She had no tags.

After asking several passersby if they recognized the dog, we began to think that we may have a new member of the family. I knew we couldn't take her to a shelter because I've seen that awful Sarah McLachlan commercial too many times- it's all I could think about.

Gina took to us quickly but was badly in need of a bath. Eventually we decided to take her to a nearby animal hospital to see if she was microchipped. She jumped in my car, slobbered on everything and breathed in my face the whole way there. When we arrived we scanned her and found out that she was indeed microchipped (whew).

They called the owner who said her name was Gina and that she had run away while they were stopped at Trader Joe's. They are not from here... they are on a road trip. So we waited around and said our goodbyes and Gina's family pulled up in a big Winnebego. Two little blonde-haired kids tore open the door and sprinted across the parking lot to the animal hospital. Gina saw them through the window and went nuts. They had australian accents so we realized that they might have been saying Jenna, not Gina. Hard to tell.

We will be getting Gidget microchipped. If it weren't for that, there would have been two very sad australian tourist kids in a winnebego.

But she was. So... Gina/Jenna lived happily ever after.

My Favorite Movie This Christmas

I love Christmas and Christmas Movies... Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Elf, Die Hard... I can't get enough.

This year the movie that stirred up the most Christmas Spirit for me was Smile Pinki. You probably haven't heard of it... but it won the Academy Award last year for Best Documentary Short. The film-maker, Megan Mylan, followed an organization called Smile Train that provides cleft palate surgeries for kids all over the world who cannot afford it. Most of them do not go to school because they are believed to be "cursed", so they are outcast. This film is about a little girl named Pinki who got this procedure done and can now have hope for a normal life. It was a beautiful story.

Smile Train has performed over 500,000 cleft surgeries. One surgery takes about 45 minutes and cost about $250 and changes a life forever. A great Christmas gift...

Just Beet It

I've recently begun juicing things. Let me tell you... there is nothing like a room temperature glass of beet juice to start your day. I recommend only using the finest beets.