What do you do when it is snowing outside and you have fry a turkey?  This is the problem I was presented on Christmas afternoon.  For those of you not familiar with the age old tradition of dropping a 14 lb turkey into a boiling caldron of hot peanut oil…oil and water DO NOT mix well.  So doing this in the snow was definitely a problem.  My overly anal neighbor would point out that I could have set up a tarp to cover the area I wanted to use as he has done just to keep himself dry, but I decided I was smarter than this and decided to go against all of the State Farm commercials and decided to set up inside the garage…right next to the fuse box (as my mother pointed out).  As you have probably gathered with the fact that I am typing this several days later, it was a success, but then again I am a professional that overheated the oil and at one point had to put it in the snow in order to cool it down before dropping the turkey.  What is surprising is that my extremely risk averse father went along with the idea and helped me in the process.