Showing posts with label Thanksgiving dinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving dinner. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Thanksgiving Meal

It's funny. I talked to my sister before Thanksgiving and although we had to spend the holiday apart we both decided to have our traditional Thanksgiving meal.  So we both cooked all day and then we had our long distance family phone call.  So we started to compare notes, since we obviously would have made the same things. It turns out we had not one single item in common! She had turkey. We made leg of lamb. They had stuffing of course and we did not, but we had lamb gravy. They had mashed potatoes and we had mashed sweet potatoes. They had corn pudding and we had corn bread muffins. They had broccoli and cheese casserole and we went the green bean route. For dessert pumpkin pie here and mince meat there. Both meals sound pretty good, but funny how our childhood traditions seem to have been so different.

So here is a picture of our feast. (I chose this picture because I thought maybe it would look like the dogs were on the table, but it doesn't really. They are at the edge of the room enjoying their own feast of the cooking pots. You can see Copper licking his lips!)


Thursday, 26 November 2009

Thanksgiving Dinner


So here's what we had this year: Leg of Lamb roasted with garlic and lemon, baked potatoes and gravy, asparagus with butter lemon dressing, brussel sprouts with enoki mushrooms in a shaoshing sauce, mixed green salad and pumpkin cheese cake.


It was accompanied with a lovely Daiginko Onikoroshi sake - Wakatake. A bit sweet but very mellow.






I also worked on the sweater. It now has one sleeve.

One more to go!