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I had the best Thanksgiving dinner this week already. I bought fresh-cooked turkey slices (1 lb), fresh turkey gravy, orange sweet potato, cranberry-orange sauce, and a pumpkin pie - all already made from Whole Foods. I've been living off of it all week. And it was only $35.

This is off-topic pretty much, but I really loved the apartment in this issue's cover feature. Those green walls ... wow!

Over at Shelterrific, Angela actually put the one-hour Thanksgiving menu to the test. And it totally passed! So there is hope for those of us who have limited culinary skills.

I've got to agree with Ridge, even if it's off-topic: check out the cover story: you'll see this wonderful apartment is painted in Benjamin Moore "Oregano" (#2147-10), mm-MM!

I don't know that I would really want a Thaksgiving dinner that only took an hour to make. An hour to eat, YES !!!

Much of the trick seems to be cooking in small amounts, so that the stove time doesn't have to start hours ahead.

Other than ministering to the pumpkin cheesecake, which takes three hours the night before, and the year of the cassoulet, which had to sit in the oven all morning, I don't think I've ever spent more than 90 minutes on a holiday dinner, including getting into the oven such things as need an hour of baking time.

I'd like that cover better if it showed the owner/designer Nick Olsen, a protege of Miles Redd, instead of the "stunt babe" they used instead.

C'mon, Domino, give us some man candy on the cover for ONCE!!! You're an INTERIOR magazine, not Vogue, for god's sake.

And the sidebar in the issue "Is Domino ready for Dudes on the cover?" is just too "Tiger Beat meets Pottery Barn Teen" for comment.

P(too), hand me a chocolate croissant before I launch into how women-oriented magazines use attractive women on the cover to make female readers feel nervous and inadequate so that we're primed to buy more. (Once I start citing sources, it's too late...)

Yes, please, magazine publishers -- show us what a couch would look like with an attractive man on it!

I want to feel nervous and inadequate! I want to feel nervous and inadequate!