Thursday, November 27, 2008

Thanksgiving ND Style

My partner and I splurged today. We went to the only place that sells turkey: Subway.
For dinner we went to a friends house and we had a meat-less feast. We played guitar hero and pin the tail on the turkey. It was great. It's worth becoming a tradition.
This is our new oven w/ lime muffins in it. We made them for Thanksgiving gifts. Everyone here is vegetarian, so the only thing I could find to bake that didn't require eggs was a lemon muffin recipe. Turns out what they call lemons we call limes. It took us awhile to figure this out. We went to the fruit stands and ask for lemons and they would point at green things. Eventually we realized lemons were no where to be found, and went with the limes.



I'm so thankful for this oven. It's the biggest one available. I cooked a mean macaroni and cheese in it for Thanksgiving dinner today. My partner thought it was weird that I was making it for Thanksgiving. My family has it at almost every meal no matter the occasion, so it was my South Carolina contribution.
During the lime muffin making, we had another pipe to spew. It went everywhere including my computer, and the batter. Thankfully everything survived.
Just about every neighborhood has a security guard. As we were leaving our friends house tonight around 9ish, their guard was asleep. Our guy is so skinny, I'm not sure who he could scare away. While I was sitting at our table, I saw this out the corner of my eye:

That's our security guard on a neighbor's roof. I'm not sure what he was doing. For Thanksgiving we gave him some lime muffins. He looked at us like we were crazy. I wonder what he thought of them. I didn't like them, so I doubt he did. The thing is that when we're offered food, we have to eat it. We say we like it even when it's gross. However, they'll straight up tell you if they don't like what we offer. This guy can't tell us if he doesn't like them b/c he can't speak English and we can't understand him...yet.

I hope you had a Great Thanksgiving.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love it Allsion! You're a great blog writter!

Anonymous said...

Helpful (or maybe not so helpful) hint: we made chocolate oatmeal cookies (the no-bake kind) for our pure veg friends. The only difficulty is finding the peanut butter. By the way, I'm Jenny King's sister, and I used to live in South Asia but came back to the States in August. I think I was at debrief when you were at RVA.