Thanksgiving NI style
As you all know, we had Thanksgiving at our house a week ago and I finally have some time to tell you all about it. Davina and Bryan came, along with Jonny and Suzanne, Homer and Sharon, Colin and Steven (Guigsy). We told them to all come at 2, to have dinner at 3. Which was a good thing because nobody arrived until 2:40 and the last people didn't come until 3:10. Anyway, Andrew and I cooked our first turkey, which came out really really well. It was nice and golden and moist too. yay. (see picture) (p.s. we got our turkey from a butcher and when it came it still had a few little feathers on it and part of the scaley leg bit. It was gross. I, Brittany, couldn't handle it and Andrew had to do all the pre-cooking turkey prep.)
We also made green bean casserole, along with plain green beans and plain carrots for the non-adventurous. And I made pumpkin pie using my own recipes and real pumpkins. It turned out really good too, despite the fact that only Davina and I had full size pieces. Andrew had a small piece, and even said it was good, which has to be a good thing because he has never liked pumpkin pie before. Everybody else tried a bite and although most of them said it was good, none of them were brave enough to take a whole piece. We also had mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, rolls, two kinds of stuffing (NI style with sausage in it, and american style), gravy, and cranberry sauce. Everything turned out really well, and everybody ate as much as they wanted and we had very little left over.
After dinner we played a game called Scene It, which is a DVD game about films. There are some trivia questions and some questions you had to watch a part of a movie and then answer who the actor was or who the director was or what the character's name was or something like that. It was really fun. Then we had dessert. We had the pumpkin pie with whipped cream, apple pie with custard, and a chocolate mousse cake with ice cream. After dessert, Davina and Bryan left and the rest of us played Apples to Apples. Then Colin and Guigsy left, and we played Jenga. Everyone else left about 9pm. It was really fun.
Here's a picture of what our table looked like. The table cloth, table runner, wine glasses and placemats are ours. Andrew's work let us borrow all the plates, cups, and silverware.
posted by Brittany @ 12/04/2005
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2 Comments:
Sounds like you had a fun Thanksgiving. That is impressive that you made the whole dinner. I haven't done that yet. Plus yours was a little more authentic then ours. After we had all finished eating we were sitting in the front room and realized that we didn't have any cranberries. Somehow it got left off the list I guess.
We have scene-it too, but we haven't played it much. We talked about playing Apples to Apples here at Thanksgiving but you are the only one that has it so we couldn't play it. So we did 4 on a couch instead. Everyone really liked that game, but Nannie was confused.
I am impressed that you made all of that yourselves. Especially the pumpkin pie. That's gross that the turkey still had the feathers on it. Who needs the cranberries anyway? I definitely don't think that they're vital. Oh, and I own Apples to Apples too, but I left it here at school when I came home. It was wierd, Nannie got her own name every game, and no one ever called it. :)
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