Preparing to cook our fresh pumkin!Well, this year the turkey drama continues. Last year's turkey dude was just too much for me to deal with this year, so I decided to ask my local butcher if he could get a Thanksgiving turkey for me. He assured me that he could get a turkey for me without any problem and told me that I would just need to order it about a week in advance. When I went to place my turkey order, he told me that he could only get me a turkey "ordinaire" as the turkeys for Christmas are not ready yet. It is times like this when I really miss living in the US where Butterballs are in abundance around Thanksgiving! I mean if we are going to celebrate Thanksgiving, I want to have a nice turkey. I brought cornmeal from the States so that I could make cornbread dressing this year. We also bought a pumpkin so that we could make pumkin pie. But what kind of Thanksgiving would it be without a turkey?
I had just about decided that I would have to roast a chicken and deal with my disappointment, when I thought of one more store to try. It was the store that has fresh cranberries at this time of year! They said that they could order me a turkey "fermier" (aka farm raised and really good quality) without a problem. Elated, I asked for the price and made an appointment to pick up my turkey on Friday. When I picked up my turkey, the price was about twice as much as I had been quoted, but I took it anyway. It seems that Thanksgiving turkeys are hard to come by around here. Nevertheless, we had a real American Thanksgiving with turkey, dressing, roasted pumkin and butternut squash, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, and pumkin pie!


3 comments:
what bothers me is how you don't look anything like you just had a baby! the gene distribution amongst the three of us is frightfully unfair. you look great! well done :) and your feast sounds fabulous!
I'm jealous! LOL
Miss you. Love SA's tights. A must for a little girl's wardrobe!
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