Logan's Thanksgiving in France

For my Canadian readers: I know i'm two months late

For my American readers: I know i'm one week early.

I wanted to celebrate the Canadian Thanksgiving, but it happened just after I returned from Oman (side note: Pictures and a full write-up are coming!! Soon I hope) so it was just too much to organize too soon.

So I figured, being half American, allowed me to celebrate the American Thanksgiving.

Find a Turkey was NOT easy!! They just don't sell whole turkey here in France. So I had to go to the butcher, who looked at me with incredulous eyes as I asked for "une dinde entier" . But finally they said they could "probably" order one from a farm.

I wanted to invite many more people, but was limited both by space in my little apartment and by the size of the turkey. So we were 11 people from all over this world.

One Portugese
One Brazilian
One Vietmanese
One Columbian
One Thailandaise
One Lebanese / Canadian
Two Spanish
Two French
and me

So I split up some of the cooking duties.

Myself with the help of Bruno cooked the Turkey, made the stuffing, gravy and a green bean casserole.

Julien made super Mashed Potatoes

Roy cooked a yam casserole

Gift made Ceasar Salad

Rosa made pumpkin pies

Thien-Phu brought us a special Vietmanese dessert.

Esteban brought the dinner rolls

All in all I'd say the dinner turned out great!!! Not bad for my first hosted Thanksgiving!

Here are the pictures :)

http://picasaweb.google.com/logan.jones/200911Thanksgiving#