Our friends Justin and Jyoti have a lovely villa with oven that they generously opened to us. We also invited our friends Colin and Nathalie. O. started cooking days ahead of time, baking the cornbread for her pecan-cornbread stuffing, concocting her savory cranberry-jalapeno salsa, and making turkey stock to flavor said stuffing (she actually made two versions--vegetarian and non).
The kitchen was a flurry of mad cookery.
Justin wrestles the 19-pound bird into submission.
Jyoti made some delicious dahl to enhance the feast. She's a strict vegetarian,so hosting Turkey Day was doubly generous on her part.
O. readies the stuffing for...well, stuffing.
Nathalie brought some amazingly tasty sweet/sour, red/white cabbageand some excellent macaroni and cheese.
Colin brought his jovial self.
Unfortunately, they also brought the news
that they're moving to Saigon in January. We will so miss them.
I manned the bar. Colin and Nathalie gave us a cocktail shaker,so Martinis and Margaritas flowed freely.
The results were spectacular, as well as satisfyingly delicious.
A bird we were truly thankful for.
The table heaped with bounty.
Justin even found a patisserie that made us a lovely pumpkin pie.
We were thankful, we were happy, we were stuffed.(Photo by J & J's housekeeper, who did all the clean-up.)
P.
4 comments:
That is a beautifully done turkey!
We had to spice it up for the Indian contingent...found a jalapeno cranberry sauce recipe...and brussel sprout recipe that called for siracha sauce...but the yummiest was a sweet potato with marshmallows! Aston went on a Turkey adventure...cooked the deboned legs into a dish...so the turkey took only a couple of hours and the dish with the legs was pretty amazing...the fried turkey was the show turkey. Memories of t-days together...miss you.
Hi P & O!!
I just read your whole blog since all things blog are blocked in China - even Twitter. Brian and I are home for the holidays. I sympathize with the ice block house since I am staying with R & G in Ensenada for a few days. It's warmer outside than in. I will email more because we hope to visit you before or during April. Lots of love, Jennifer
What a great, typical American Thanksgiving.(BTW do you know why they call 'em 'mericans?) I was really struck by how both your home and your friends home look so much like a standard - say Union City tract - home. Some of the details are different, but it just looks like a typical house.
Years ago, when the Brits were getting ready to give Hong Kong back to the Reds, lots of Hong Kongese were blowing town. Many of them were going to Cupertino, where we were building new houses - others were going to where ever they could get. At about the same time, Michele and I found ourselves in Singapore with some time to kill. I suggested we check out the local building scene. We were shocked to see the locals, there, building the same houses for, apparently, the same customers.
It is a small, small, world after all.
looks delicious!!!
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