Happy Thanksgiving

To celebrate Thanksgiving yesterday, a group of about 25 of us got together- Americans, Irish, Spaniards, Venezuelans, Australians, etc. It was interesting trying to get traditional food, but with some effort we were able to make most of it! We ordered the turkeys from the butcher a few weeks in advance, and they came with the feathers still on them. Many trips were made to the American food store in Madrid to obtain ingredients for pumpkin pie, apple pie, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, cornbread, etc. The bread filling/stuffing was particularly challenging as the bread had to be cut into cubes from the slices it comes in, then they had to be baked, and then the stuffing was assembled and cooked. Luckily my oven works (although I have to light it by hand and I have no idea what temperature it's at, at least it functions properly!) so I cooked a turkey. We had the gathering at a friends apartment, but they have an electricity cap and so if the oven is on the rest of the electricity in the apartment goes out, so that was entertaining! There were also some Spanish dishes, such as torta espanola. It was definitely Thanksgiving in the fact that there were a lot of friends, and more than enough food :) Hope everyone stateside had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well!