Dec 01 2008
Thanksgiving
I’m tired, but damn, was it tasty…that’s all I’ve eaten for the past 2 days - I’m kind of hoping there are still some leftovers to eat tomorrow too!
The local chicken, after all was said and done, was closer to a cornish game hen size, while the chicken that was brought from UB was a normal-sized monstrosity of a bird. Bayan-Ulgii (a province further north) folks came in and one of em is an excellent cook and put together three amazing casseroles - corn, broccoli, and green bean. We then had a huge bowl of stuffing, two large bowls of mashed potates, homemade applesauce and pseudo-cranberry sauce, glazed carrots, biscuits, and corn bread. There were 5 pies of 4 different kinds - lemon meringue, pecan, pumpkin (2), and apple. All of the crusts turned out great this time and the meringue was amazingly easy due to a pinch cream of tartar from a package Bonnie sent me. I’m going to need to make more lemon meringue here - I have all the ingredients and it’s only 3 eggs - it was the first pie to go too.
After the main food, about half of the group of 12 was either laying on the ground or groaning about how they may be sick. Or both. So I consider that to be the sound of success. A couple hours later, after eating pies (we had about 1/2 pie baked for every person there), many laid down/groaned again. Today when we came back over to eat leftovers, same thing. This makes me pretty happy 
Still, we’re only making slow progress through the food - I may reacquire the cranberry sauce from Jen if there’s not a likelihood it’ll get finished - I made 3 good-sized jars’ worth and I don’t know if we even got through one yet.
I leave for UB this Tuesday but still haven’t finished everything I wanted to do - like laundry, cleaning, actual work…so…time to turn in so as to do it tomorrow…
