Get stuffed!

Well hey ho folks, it's that time of year again. The rains are coming, the pumpkins sprouting, and that means one thing: the harvest is upon us and it's time to get stuffed. So, in the spirit of ensuring my friends bellies were suitably bursting, we went on a 2 1/2 day cooking extravaganza. We had sweet potato, we had gingered carrots, we had turnip, we had mash, we had gingered carrots, we had baked butternut squash. This was then completed with a massively stuffed turkey with 2 kinds of stuffing, one being sausage leek and cranberry and the other being classique, if you will. Dessert was with 3 different kinds of yummies: cranberry cheesecake with a cointrea cranberry sauce, plus a pumpkin cheesecake pie and a traditional pumpkin pie. So yes, we, and the turkey, were well stuffed.

Now, while I would like to say that everything about last night's Thanksgiving activities were fantastic, there was one uncontrollable hitch that no one could do a thing to fix. In typical fashion, our dearest Alex came all the way from Dublin to enjoy in this orgy of gastronomical proportions, only to be slammed with an epic stomach flu to match. Braving it like a trooper, he politely sat, watching everyone mmm and groan at the food he couldn't eat, and THEN, he did the dishes! What a prince.

Anyhow, regardless of the abdominal discomfort, Alex is glad to be here and now that he is feeling a bit better, we look forward to getting out of the house today and checking some things out, like Spitalfields and maybe a play today or tomorrow. It will be good times. So anyhow, as we give thanks at Thanksgiving, I am just stoked that Alex is on the mend and will be able to enjoy his forray into London, if only a day delayed.