Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope that you had a wonderful time with family and friends.  This year (drumroll please) I made my first turkey!  A few weeks ago my host dad told me that he wanted to do the ´real american thanksgivng´ and so, we got ourselves a 12 pound, south carolina turkey (yup that´s right, imported). 



My host mom with the turkey all set for the oven!



The hardest part?  We only had 24 hours to defrost it!  After a frantic google search turns out you can leave the bird in water for a half and hour and then change the water, for 6 hours.  It worked!

Along with turkey, we had stove top stuffing (thanks to my mom, and my aunt Nancy and uncle Jim who brought it with them on their visit), steamed green beans, and rolls.  The whole family came together to sit down and eat (18 of us!)...

The evening ended with all the women cleaning up, the men watching tv and the kid cousins being crazy hooligans...