Thanksgiving

I spent Thanksgiving at my friend JJ’s place. It was her first time cooking thanksgiving dinner and she did an extraordinary job. We had 2 types of turkey – normal and smoked, caramelized roasted sweet potatoes, mashed redskin potatoes, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce. Then for dessert (which we had to wait at least 2 hours to consume as we had er, ever so slightly, overindulged) there was a choice of cheesecake and apple pie.
I was seriously impressed by JJ’s commitment to Thanksgiving dinner. She had a carefully planned timetable of what needed to happen when. She had laid the table the night before and was up until midnight chopping vegetables. By contrast my Christmas dinner cooking seems very ill planned, but I doubt I will even try to change this year.

Also participating in this feast were JJ’s parents and friends of JJ who had recently become parents. Their very cute and surprisingly silent son was also there but he’s not on solid food yet.

Afterwards we played Rummikub. Its like a cross between gin rummy and Mah Jong. JJ’s mother was by far the best winning 4 games. I won 2 games but badly lost some others.
Tomorrow I will not be going shopping, I will be sleeping late and meeting people for lunch and dinner.

Thanks JJ for a lovely thanksgiving