Friday, November 19

OPERATION: First Thanksgiving Without Parental Supervision

This is our mission if we so choose to accept it:

SVEEDISH SMÖRGÅSBORDAGE:
    • Pickled beets
    • Pressgurka (cucumber salad)
    • Lingonberry relish
    • Sveedish Meatballs
    UNITED STATES STAPLES: 
        • Garlic mashed potatoes with creme fraiche
        • PEAS!! I LOVE PEAS. LOTS & LOTS OF PEAS.
        • Spice-cured turkey
        • Cornbread stuffing with green apples
        • Sweet potato biscuits

    DESSERT:
        • Sacrificial pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust
        • Pears poached in GLÖGG

    DRINKS:
        • Steaming hotGLÖGG

      Percentage of these recipes I've never tried before:
          63%

      Likelihood that I will forget to convert °F to °C and burn the living dickens out of something:
          89% (That's okay, I generally prefer my food dickens-free.)

      Does our smoke alarm work?
          DEFINITELY. I have "tested" it quite often while we've been
          here. 

      Do we have the proper equipment?
          BAHHHH YEAH RIGHT
      Why yes, a bottle opener IS a cooking tool in this house (wink).


















      T-MINUS 144 HOURS.

      8 comments:

      April said...

      P.S.:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF_5OvK2D8A&feature=player_embedded#!

      ...my sentiments exactly.

      Mike H. said...

      Ah yes. The first adult Thanksgiving. Ours was in Ashland in the small apartment. We ate at the coffee table since we didn't have anything else. Spent all day cooking. I had to wash the one pot he had a couple times. Thank goodness for microwaves for reheating.

      April said...

      Um, about that... no microwave here : (

      But your first Thanksgiving sounds adorable!

      Kristie said...

      Can I have the sweet potato biscuit recipe? I blew a few circuits in my head when I realized that exists.

      April said...

      Kristie-- the peas, biscuits, and turkey pictures are clickable ; )

      Jocelynn Gebhart Stacy Hsu said...

      your blog just made my day. ;)

      Jocelynn Gebhart Stacy Hsu said...

      by the way this is Stacy.
      Jocelynn and I decided to merge identity a while ago, but it is a long story.

      April said...

      Hiiii J. G. S. Hsu! I wouldn't mind merging identities with the two of you either : ) Glad I could brighten your day a little.