Happy Latw Thanksgiving Everyone! Internet's been out since Tuesday, so I didn't have a chance to give an eary or on-time Happy Thanksgiving. I hope this one works.
The Silistra American contigent and co. had a great Thanksgving dinner last night. Our supermarket is selling turkey these days, so we got an 8-pound bird for about 6 people. This was pretty much the first Thanksgiving where I was involved in just about everything that went into the oven. I basted the turkey and decided when it was ready (It came out beautifully, incidentally. Honey seems to work well, and my nightmare of the dinner scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation went unfulfilled. Although the turkey was maybe a liiiiiitle bit dry, I'm blaming that on the oven we used being the size of my laptop.), I mashed up the potatoes after the were strained. And as a piece de resistance, I did pretty much the entire apple pie. From peeling the apples to mixing the dough for the crust, to pulling it out of the oven.
I wouldn't be nearly as proud of these things if it hadn't felt like Thanksgiving eating them, and it certainly did. Right down to the Tryptophan and ballooning stomach. Everybody ate tons of food and left full.
In class things have been interesting too. I've been covering the holiday these last few days, and some of the basic ingredients that pique the kids' interests aren't here in Bulgaria. These mystical foods like cranberries, sweet potatoes, and marshmallows never fail to delight or disgust. The idea of sweet potatoesgets their tastes buds gagging, in particular. Marshmallows, they seem hesitant about and cranberries just don't interest them beyond the explanation of the name of the band.
And that's pretty much the Thanksgiving news. Hope everyone had a great one. It's back to reading Chaucer for me.
Posted by Rob at November 25, 2005 05:39 PM