No stuffing mix, the only turkeys are inordinately expensive free-rangers, and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie filling require trekking to every local grocery store to locate. Nonetheless, we hardy American expats found that where there's a will, there's a way...
Nate makes some awesome pasta dish for us.
Steph (my sister) works on the gravy.
Part of my contribution! A beautiful lemon-garlic-rosemary-butter-infused turkey! The most surprising bit is that I managed to handle cleaning it by myself...although it wasn't my kitchen sink that I used as a bathtub!
Laura's quiche, aka broccoli pie.
YouTube teaches Dave how to carve a turkey...
Success!
Michael approves of our feast.
Part of the gang and our feast. Food we ate that may or may not be pictured: Turkey, mashed potatoes (40 potatoes' worth for 7 people...), green beans, pasta dish, sweet potatoes with marshmallow, AMERICAN STUFFING (thank you Steph!), quiche, cranberry sauce, and then pumpkin pie and apple crumble for dessert (also my contributions)!
But celebrating Thanksgiving in London was quite a challenge. Firstly, turkeys, if you can find them, cost the equivalent of $6/pound. Our prize cost us 30 GBP, which is just shy of $50. Secondly, American-style stuffing mix must be imported. They only do chestnut stuffing, and only at Christmas. Thirdly, cranberry sauce is located with the ketchup. Yes, the ketchup. Fourthly, watching The Italian Job as an interlude between dinner and dessert is a most excellent idea. Fifthly, Michael rocks for choosing to wash ALL the dishes instead of cooking.
Sixthly, we totally played Born in the USA as our cooking music. Rock on, America.
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