Preparing Thanksgiving dinner
For the first half of yesterday (Thursday), I had a feeling that I’d regressed in time to the caveman era, where the men were the hunters and the women were the gatherers. I spent most of my morning trying to “gather” canned pumpkin for a pumpkin pie.. without success :( It turns out that in this entire vicinity, the only pumpkin to be had is either a whole pumpkin, pumpkin seeds, or sweet-sour pumpkin in a glass jar.
Luckily I did manage to gather most of the other things I needed, down to the cranberries (got the last box at the 5th supermarket I visited); the baking soda (got this on a return trip to the supermarket in the afternoon, turns out the stuff is available here but it’s called Natron); and the chocolate chips (had to laugh at the small size of the chocolate chip packages, 1 package is 75g so I had to buy 3 of them for the recipe).
After the groceries were done, I started right in on food preparation. (more…)