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Entries from November 16th, 2008

Thanksgiving dinner 2008November 16th, 2008, 3 Comments

This year I was invited to Thanksgiving dinner at Craig and Catherine’s home. This was the menu, taken from Catherine’s blog:

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Thanksgiving Dinner 2008

Toasted Le Moulin baguette with:
Cream cheese & caramelised onions

Roast turkey with wild rice & cranberry stuffing
Kumara & orange gratin
Coleslaw

Apple pie & cream
Christmas fruit mince pie

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Catherine made everything from scratch, even the coleslaw! Here’s a photo of my adopted family in Wellington. Catherine (the chef) and Craig (the sous-chef) are on the right:

The start of dinner

And here we are at the end of dinner, waiting for dessert:

Look at those pies

So good! It reminded me of dutch apple pie, without the cinnamon.

Thank you so much C & C, it was superb!

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