I just realised I never posted about the dinner I decided to do on the spur of the moment. Obviously Thanksgiving isn’t a holiday here and it certainly isn’t harvest season. But we usually do something to mark the day even if it’s not a traditional dinner. I was vaguely aware of the date coming up due based on what I read online. The Scientist thought it was the following week and had planned to do some sort of dinner. But on the day he was hard at work when Game Fanatic asked me when Thanksgiving was. When I said it was that very day, the Scientist was upset as he’s mistaken the date…So just after noon on the day, I rushed out to the store and bought one of those boxed turkey breasts along with a few other supplies and brought it all home. It was kind of warm that day so the air conditioning was put to work while the kitchen heated up.

Along with the turkey I made mashed potatoes and some sweet potatoes with brown sugar for candied yams. The Scientist made some vegetables later in the day. Game Fanatic wanted corn bread so I whipped up some  batter using some corn meal mixture that comes from South Africa. This mixture was much finer and was closer to wheat flour texture. The end result was okay but not quite as nice as usual. I might have to tweak the recipe a bit to make this work for me. The South African product is a lot cheaper than anything else I’ve gotten here so it would be good to be able to use that instead.

The meal came out quite nicely although we weren’t able to persuade Lego Lover to indulge in any of it. After it was finished, I started thinking of how I would do it differently next year…here’s hoping I do a bit more planning. :D