American Thanksgiving

As we have a large kitchen, our American friend Monbill wanted to host (and cook) a Thanksgiving dinner for a few friends at our place. I thought this was a great idea – especially since he said he was going to cook a Turducken. For those who have never heard of this, a turducken is a turkey, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken.

The facebook invite went out, and before we knew it, 35 guests had confirmed. This wasn't including all the people who weren't on facebook. A few days before, we thought there might be as many as 50 people. I admit, I started to panic a bit... 50 people coming to our house FOR DINNER!!! My roommate and I made a trip to the bulk store one lunch to get lots of paper plates, and plastic cups and cutlery as we weren't about to do dishes. We also delegated various people to bring chairs and obviously more food.

Monbill arrived at 9:30 on the big day to start cooking. He obviously had it all under control by the amount of food he'd brought. And once people had arrived and the food was all laid out, I could see that nobody would go hungry. Aside from the Turkducken, there was another turkey, ham, fish, lasagna, 2 kinds of stuffing, rataouille, 2 green been dishes, mashed potato, scalloped potato, salad, Boston fish chowder and pumpkin soup (and that's all I can remember). Then there was desert with homemade key lime pie, papaya cheesecake, chocolate cake, pumpkin squares (made by yours truly), brownies and ice cream. Everything was delicious! The amount of leftovers is insane. I froze some of it, and made 3 kinds of soup last Sunday.

Dinner was followed by performances on Rockband on the Xbox (I was happy because I got my karaoke fix). Our neighbours also came that night, and as rock music isn't their thing, I think they were quite entertained with this game. Once most people had left, those of us still there turned off the game and turned up the tunes.

For more photos, visit the album on Facebook.