Thanksgiving is not a holliday here in the Netherlands ,so we have to cellebrate it in the weekend. So that will be tomorrow turkey #7 is in the oven now.All the cakes are done. The soups are on the stove now for an other 5 hours. We have 3x12 liters of cocktails,120 mini clubsandwiches when people com in and wait for the dinner to start.Than we have 248,1/2 pound of turkey.116.-pound of ham. 14 liters of tomato soup, 16 liters of chickensoup. loads and loads of potatoes , macaroni and cheese.Corn, stringbeans in country saus with litle bit of turkey bacon. Inbetween the courses we have all kinds of salads. At the end we have strawberry cake ,lemon cake,vanilla butterscotch cake, double chocolate cake, cherry cheesecake , strawberry cheesecake, 2 pumpkin pie, 2 sweetpotato pie, apple pie, blackberry pie, cherry pie and fruitsalad. So today I and tomorrow I am up to my elbows in work and I love it. I will be sleeping so good on sunday night. Take care.
It will be a quiet relaxed Thanksgiving for my husband and I.That gives me time to reflect on all my Blessings and prepare myself for Christmas. I traditionally work on Christmas cards this day while my husband watches football.I love the smells of turkey cooking in the oven and all the trimmings. I hope you enjoy your holiday... Cathy
