I know that I shall be very busy on Thanksgiving so I would like to wish you all a fabulous holiday of togetherness and lots of traditional dishes.
For those of you who are unable to meet with family or friends, know that we here in your blog family are wishing a peaceful day for you.
I'll be adding photos to this post later to show you how we spent our day.
Wednesday:
We started preparing for Thanksgiving yesterday setting up the tables and helping mom cut the gobo (burdock root) into thin strips. I also prepared the lup chong-mochi rice stuffing.
Today:
Art and I got up early this morning, had breakfast and Art began his pumpkin pie. I baked a mint chocolate bundt cake. My bundt wasn't as pretty as his pie.
We then made room in the kitchen for mom to begin her family favorite macaroni salad.
We were able to watch the Macy's parade while helping her peel, cut, dice, chop.
I'm so amazed that since I can't smell anymore, I can now dice onions and squeeze out the liquid for mom without tearing.
I baked small loaves of pumpkin bread with cranberries and mom made her namasu (pickled cucumbers).
And then we rested and waited for everyone to show up at 5:00.
8:30 PM: Everybody generously brought over so many wonderful dishes which we thoroughly enjoyed.
But wow! Art and I are so exhausted. Between all the cooking, hosting, clean up, putting away dishes, remembering where things go, finding containers for people to bring things home, etc.... sigh... we're ready to crash. However, it was truly a wonderful Thanksgiving and so fantastic to be with the whole family again. We really don't see them all often enough and it felt good to catch up on all the happenings since we last saw them.
We'll be looking forward to seeing them next at New Years!
I'll be adding photos to this post later to show you how we spent our day.
Wednesday:
We started preparing for Thanksgiving yesterday setting up the tables and helping mom cut the gobo (burdock root) into thin strips. I also prepared the lup chong-mochi rice stuffing.
Today:
Art and I got up early this morning, had breakfast and Art began his pumpkin pie. I baked a mint chocolate bundt cake. My bundt wasn't as pretty as his pie.
We then made room in the kitchen for mom to begin her family favorite macaroni salad.
We were able to watch the Macy's parade while helping her peel, cut, dice, chop.
I'm so amazed that since I can't smell anymore, I can now dice onions and squeeze out the liquid for mom without tearing.
I baked small loaves of pumpkin bread with cranberries and mom made her namasu (pickled cucumbers).
And then we rested and waited for everyone to show up at 5:00.
8:30 PM: Everybody generously brought over so many wonderful dishes which we thoroughly enjoyed.
But wow! Art and I are so exhausted. Between all the cooking, hosting, clean up, putting away dishes, remembering where things go, finding containers for people to bring things home, etc.... sigh... we're ready to crash. However, it was truly a wonderful Thanksgiving and so fantastic to be with the whole family again. We really don't see them all often enough and it felt good to catch up on all the happenings since we last saw them.
We'll be looking forward to seeing them next at New Years!
thanks for the early greeting from Hawaii-I'm up early and will soon start the preparations for our Thanksgiving dinner. We'll be celebrating alone this year as we don't like to travel on showy roads anymore...
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving to you and your family Kay!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving Kay!
ReplyDeleteThanks to you, too! You definitely feel like family to me, Kay. :-)
ReplyDeleteHave a good one
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving Kay to you and all your family.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving and all the days after, Kay! What a feast - TWO tables full!
ReplyDeleteActually it’s one table from two different angles. I forgot to take photos of people. The only one I have is of my nephew because he was first in line and then we were all eating the dinner and packing food for people to take home, cleaning up, etc. So I just plain forgot to take of photo of everybody. Sigh... I’m so forgetful.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about exhausted after preparing our little Thanksgiving feast for just us I collapsed in my recliner for a 3 hour nap. Of course I had trouble sleeping that night...now we have lots of leftovers!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds so yummily delicious... and...FUN! And, exhausting! Made me tired just reading about all you had to do. The photos are awesome! Glad you all had a wonderful time. Those are the best of times!
ReplyDeleteYour mom and my mom make macaroni salad the same way!! Diced potatoes, macaroni, olives, eggs (save the yokes to crumble over the top!), onions, peas or edamame, and pickles... "the kitchen sink" mac salad! And white, not black, pepper, to keep the salad looking nice & clean! So yummy!! Thank you for sharing the fun photos! Sandy
ReplyDeleteThis must be the Hawaii type mac salad. When I lived on the mainland, nobody made it quite the same way. Hmmmm... Wait, edamame? That sounds interesting. I would love to try that. And white pepper? That does add a different flavor. What fun!
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