Thanksgiving Down Unda!

Although most Aussies have heard of Thanksgiving, it is certainly not a celebrated holiday here. However since Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday it worked out really well for our regular staff Thursday night dinner to be turned into a Thanksgiving celebration!! We had a sign up sheet for things to bring and there ended up being at least 20 people there all gathered around the table!!

Mel and I had the day off so we spent the afternoon cooking 2 Pecan Pies, Green Bean Cassserol, and sweet potatos with marshmallows!!!

Mel mashing the sweet potatos. Sweet potatos with marshmallows was a very new concept for the Aussies, and one most of them couldn't quite handle!! lol. It didnt' help that their marshmallows are a bit different and denser than ours. Oh well!!

Our green bean casserol (with onion flakes because we couldn't find any fried onions) still tasted alright.

Our two pecan pies turned out pretty good although we had to make the corn syrup from scratch and we apparently used plain flour when we were supposed to use corn flour!

Tim (the boss from PA) carving the bird! It was quite good - very moist!!

Tima nd his wife are in the middle of renovation their kitchen so Naomi went to a friend's house to cook the turkey and we ate off paper plates! :)

It was a bit crazy with around 20 people gathered along two tables put together end to end. There was lots of "Can you pass the bread?" and "Can you put some potatoes on that plate?" "Is there any corn left down there?" But the food was really good and actually tasted pretty authentic! Not biscuits or cranberry sauce but if you focus on what we did have as opposed to what we didn't it was a pretty amazing and a very impressive attempt from teh other side of the world!!

Little Johnny got to bite into the huge turkey leg!!

We had six pies of three varieties!! Apple, Pumpkin and Pecan!
The pic didn't turn out so good.

It was a different Thanksgiving but a great one none the less!!!