Today was a work and school day in Valencia. Our "real" Thanksgiving will be Saturday when we are hosting at the house 40+ expat Cup friends, mostly from BMWOR but not exclusively, for a pot-luck holiday dinner. Leslie and a number of the other ladies are cooking turkeys and everyone is bringing a dish or two to pass. Hope the weather is nice so we can also hang outdoors -- the house is good-sized, but sit down dinner for 40?
Nonetheless, today Leslie cooked up a turkey and some of the usual trimmings, more as a practice run with the new oven in the new house. She had a bit of a shock when she unwrapped the bird that she bought last evening at the butcher in Puzol. Unlike those you get in the States, here they come rather more complete. Photo below.
Am reminded by a discussion Leslie and Meg were having earlier abour the origins of Thanksgiving in the USA that I did a post on that on the EFB a year ago.
This is probably the only holiday for which I really miss being in the USA. It's now early Friday morn here, and trust all of our friends and family in the States are enjoying a very Happy Thanksgiving.
Yikes -- what would Martha Stewart do with that!?
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