Happy Thanksgiving

From All of Us At Haydocy Chevrolet Buick Cadillac, We Would Like to Wish You and Your Family a Very Safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

Traveling by Car for Thanksgiving?

Here's a few tips for Car Safety & Snacks:

Car Safety - Prepping for Your Trip
Cellular Security: To stay in touch with work and home, as well as handle unexpected events on the road, a cell phone is essential. Before leaving on your trip, ask your service provider about roaming fees and countrywide coverage.

Overall Checkup: Whether you do it yourself or go to a garage, pre-trip auto maintenance is key to comfortable cruising. Check the wiper blades, all fluid levels (oil, water, etc.), belt and hose connections, tire pressure, turn signals, horn and headlights. If your car is still not instilling confidence, consider an all-out professional inspection.

Trunk 101: Exactly how prepared you want to be as far as your in-car tool kit is up to you, but a few items go without saying (OK, we'll say them anyway). The following should always be within easy reach when you open your trunk door: a tire iron, bottled water, fire extinguisher, first-aid kit and reflectors/flares.

Spare Care: Just because you have a spare tire doesn't mean it's in working order. Give it a good look before hitting the road to ensure it's properly pumped and the treads are intact. If you've got the space, swap out doughnut tires for a full-size spare.

Wondering what Munchies to Take?
Trail Mix: Make your own by combining dried fruit with pretzels, nuts, chocolate chips and granola for an energy-packed snack.

Bottled water and Juice boxes: Individual frozen bottles of water and juice boxes work double duty, quenching thirst while keeping cooler contents on ice at the same time.

Spreads: Peanut butter and Nutella are good stick-to-the-knife spreads that are easy to employ when you're in motion (jelly, on the other hand, is bound to make a mess). Favorite foods for getting your spread on? Try sliced apples, celery sticks, crackers and cookies.

Hard cheeses: Opt for a block of cheddar or gouda over gooey brie and camembert. Hard cheeses keep longer once the cooler starts to warm up, and leave less mess.

Hard-boiled eggs: Protein-packed and easy to eat, they're the ideal road-trip snack.

Cut veggies: Baby carrots, celery sticks, radishes, sliced green pepper and cherry tomatoes (neatly packed in Tupperware) are easy to pass around the car to share.
Ref: http://www.travelchannel.com/interests/road-trips/articles/road-trip-tips

How to cook a frozen turkey

Uh-oh...forget to take the Turkey out to thaw?  That can be fixed - here's how!

How to cook a frozen turkey

It's the Thanksgiving nightmare scenario. You go to the refrigerator Thursday morning and realize your 15-pound turkey is still a frozen block. But food-safety experts have a solution, one that will not only will get dinner on the table by 3 p.m., but that's also a lot safer than trying to soak Mr. Tom in a sink of hot water (and potentially splash salmonella juice all over your kitchen).

It involves a hot oven, an icy bird and six hours to hang out with your relatives.

• Take one frozen turkey, 12 to 13 pounds.

• Place a low wire rack on a cookie sheet with low sides.

• Remove the plastic cover from the turkey.

• Put the turkey on the rack.

• Put it in a 325-degree oven.

• Wait 4½ to five hours.

• Eat.

While the technique turns out not to be new, it's gaining traction because of a Web publication outlining how to do it by Peter Snyder of the Hospitality Institute of Technology and Management, which does safety training for food companies.

Snyder recommends using a cookie sheet or another baking sheet with a low rim, not a high-sided roasting pan. "You want the hot oven air to evenly circulate all around the turkey," he says.

He also recommends putting the turkey on a rack on the pan so that the hot air can circulate underneath, as well. If you don't have a roasting rack, pull the metal rack out of the microwave and use that, he suggests.

Read more at:  http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011111122009