Happy belated Thanksgiving!!
Steve and I had some friends over for Thanksgiving. Steve made his awesome Alton Brown turkey for us and some great mashed potatoes, and I made carrot casserole, sweet potato casserole, stuffing and 2 pies ( 1 with homemade crust, my first time!) a zapillo (which is a type of pumpkin) and an apple. Del brought asparagus and broccoli ,and Stella and Jenny brought appetizers.I think I drove Steve crazy with my worrying about the food. It’s just that it’s hard trying to use recipes from the states here in Chile, since you can’t find a lot of the ingredients in the supermarkets or what is here is completely different. For instance, the sweet potatoes here have a purple skin, are irregularly shaped, and the inside is kind of off white in color. In the end though, everything turned out perfect and we all had a blast. The funny thing was the we were the only americans, Stella is from Greece, Del and her family are from Australia, as is Jenny and her family. Apparently in Australia turkey costs around $80, so they never get to eat it. We also had great Chilean wine of course. Missed all of you!!!!
Comment by Danielle
Lisa it sounds like you had a great Thanksgiving even if it wasn’t at home. I actually didn’t do much on Thursday but soon I will be cooking dinner for my friends here in London. I even made pumpkin pie:) Well hope to talk to you soon and looking forward to more stories (really missed them the past week).
Posted on November 27, 2005 at 9:39 am
Comment by Mom
Looks and sounds like you had a great time. Thanksgiving is all about sharing our good fortunes with our friends and family. So even though you, Steve and Danielle are thousands of miles away from us, your spirts were with us.
Counting the days until we’re together.
Posted on November 27, 2005 at 7:59 pm
Comment by Cara Resig
What a success, you should be very proud! Those pies look yummy, I hope you have lots of leftovers.
Posted on November 28, 2005 at 12:56 pm