Phrase of the day: Feliz accion de Gracias... Happy Thanksgiving!
I arrived in Quito last night to see Cristina, Julie, Pete, and Kenny, Marlena's cousins from Springfield, who are here in Ecuador visiting family. Thankfully, they wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving as much as I did. Not only did they want to celebrate it, they wanted to share the experience with their family. So Cristina decided we were going to cook for her 30ish family members at her uncle's place. Luckily, thanks to my experience at home and at The Garden Kitchen (www.gardenkitchen.com), this just seemed normal. [That's $5 for the reference Unlce B!).
So after breakfast we went shopping at this crucial grocery store and began preparing dinner. (Everyone should have woken up much earlier to begin).
We had a few mishaps during our cooking adventure. I guess that's not really a surprise, seeing as how we didn't plan our meal very thoroughly... or really at all for that matter. Salt in the ice cream instead of sugar? I thought that only happened in the movies!
Yeah, we had to throw that batch of ice cream out. But dinner turned out pretty well. We pretty much just went to the supermarket and bought everything we could find that was Thanksgiving-like... or at least good. (No pumpkin was found whatsoever, horrible!). We had a few random dishes, but it was her family's first Thanksgiving dinner, so they didn't know any better, ha. Mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, creamed corn, chicken, pork roast, bread, and greek salad. Yeah, no idea about the salad! But it was definitely the best dish. I stuck to eating it with bread and the mashed potatoes.
That's right, no turkey either. They usually only eat that for Christmas. But their uncle was nice and prepared chicken outside in his new grill. I didn't try it, but I imagine it was pretty sweet.
Oh! Lets not forget dessert. As usual, it was best parts food-wise. Cristina made a yam, marshmallow, and apple dish. And all of us helped put together strawberry ice cream(with sugar this time). If that wasn't enough, (it wouldn't have been; this was Thanksgiving!) we bought an apple pie and a chocolate cake to complete dessert.
It was nice to be in Quito with friends from back home, but the best part was definitely talking to many of you back home. I probably won't make next years either, but who knows... anything is possible.Side note: Apparently we can now grant write and try to actually accomplish projects... game on for when i get back!
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