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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2013 18:46:16 GMT -5
I am SUPER excited! For the first time in about 20 years, I will be eating turkey on Thanksgiving! DS3's close friend's mom (we are pretty good friends) works from home. She decided to do a real Thanksgiving this year, with a turkey, and she invited us over! She is American, of Polish origin (she lived in CA for about 20 years).
DH offered his traditional pumpkin pie, but she refused, because the parents always cook / bake Thanksgiving lunch for the teachers at the American section of our International Lycee, so she said I'm already committed to baking one pumpkin pie, so it's no hardship to bake two.
I said, so what else can I bring? She said, you're American, I'm Polish, I don't know, you tell me! I thought of sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top, and thought, YUCK. Unfortunately we don't have the ingredients here for the traditional green been casserole, believe it or not, I miss it, I'd be happy to eat it once a year.
So I'm thinking good chocolates (she ABSOLUTELY LOVES chocolate, we all went to Bruges together last spring, and she tried to go to literally every single chocolate shop) and champagne are in order.
But I'm open to suggestions!
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Post by chiver78 on Nov 26, 2013 19:52:50 GMT -5
debt, you can bring a cranberry sauce. if you can't find a simple canned where you are, I've seen a few easy recipes on this board and more elsewhere that I'd be happy to repost for you. I'm not a fan, but it's not T-day without cranberry sauce of some kind on the table! for the few expats that still post here, I'm so happy that I'm home for this so truly American holiday. with all the holidays I missed being here, I never missed this one.....but I always travelled alone... I hope you have a great time with your chosen family. the holidays are all about the important people in our lives, maybe these friends will become family for you
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Post by 973beachbum on Nov 27, 2013 9:41:21 GMT -5
I am SUPER excited! For the first time in about 20 years, I will be eating turkey on Thanksgiving! DS3's close friend's mom (we are pretty good friends) works from home. She decided to do a real Thanksgiving this year, with a turkey, and she invited us over! She is American, of Polish origin (she lived in CA for about 20 years). DH offered his traditional pumpkin pie, but she refused, because the parents always cook / bake Thanksgiving lunch for the teachers at the American section of our International Lycee, so she said I'm already committed to baking one pumpkin pie, so it's no hardship to bake two. I said, so what else can I bring? She said, you're American, I'm Polish, I don't know, you tell me! I thought of sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top, and thought, YUCK. Unfortunately we don't have the ingredients here for the traditional green been casserole, believe it or not, I miss it, I'd be happy to eat it once a year. So I'm thinking good chocolates (she ABSOLUTELY LOVES chocolate, we all went to Bruges together last spring, and she tried to go to literally every single chocolate shop) and champagne are in order. But I'm open to suggestions! I make a non sweet sweet potato casserole without marshmellos. Personally we love it. This one is pretty good but we use MUCH less sugar. We use 1/4 cup of each in the sweet potatoes and topping but even if you did half it would taste great! allrecipes.com/Recipe/Yummy-Sweet-Potato-Casserole/this is the recipe we use normally and it tastes wonderful hot or even warm to room temp. www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/sweet-potato-casserole-recipe/index.html#! I hope you have a great Thanksgiving!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2013 10:45:21 GMT -5
Thank you for the suggestions! I called my friend, and she is making sweet potatoes and homemade cranberry sauce. But I will print those recipes out for another time!
So I'll make cornbread, and bring some nice wine.
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Post by weltschmerz on Nov 29, 2013 4:04:56 GMT -5
To me, sweet potatoes with marshmallows and green bean casserole are strange Thanksgiving foods.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Nov 29, 2013 8:11:43 GMT -5
My neice is a dedicated ovo-lacto-vegetarian, and every T.G., we have cous-cous or quinoa with roasted peppers and cheese (and other stuff in it ), which my sister makes for her. It tastes very nice, but it just seems so out of place alongside the turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and such. I guess it's a T.G. tradition at this point, though.
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