The family’s all here and ready to eat.
A couple weeks ago, Shefali, Kaya and I had the good fortune to spend Thanksgiving with my parents, my sister and her family and Shefali’s mother and sister. This was our first Thanksgiving since we moved back the West Coast, so it was a real treat to be able to spend it with both sides of our families. In addition, our good friends, Simon and Jen and their kids, and PK (and his two crutches) also joined us for what proved to be a delicious and nutritious (calories are nutritious right?) feast.
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- Simon, Jen, Ani and Kat
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- Cheryl’s a really nice person. Me? Not so much.
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- A Tale of Two Stuffings (sausage and oyster)
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- Dessert Overload: apple galette, cheesecake and of course pumpkin pie
As usual, we spent several hours preparing and cooking the requisite T-Day food – stuffing (sausage stuffing from me, oyster stuffing from my mom), turkey (grilled in record time on the Weber by my dad), mashed potatoes and brussel sprouts (prepared by Cameron and Cheryl) and three different desserts (apple galette and cheesecake from Jen, pumpkin pie from Shef). Also as usual, the eating/ inhaling food part took all of about 15 minutes and left us all slouched uncomfortably in a haze of culinary excess. Another year and another successful Thanksgiving. But don’t just take my word for it. Watch the two part documentary masterpiece which so compellingly captures our Thanksgiving, 2013!
