This a very special blog entry. When we created this blog page it was for me to be able to send my stories, adventures and educational expierences home for everyone to read what I am up to. And as this weekend gets closer and my tan progressively darker from grape harvesting and the team is just busy getting through another average week at La Petraia. For me, my week is also filled with memories of cutting up turkeys at Burrowing Owl way back when, "turkey gold" (Chef Bernard's Turkey Gravy for those who don't know it), but most importantly I have memories of my family sitting around the table. We used to go to Grandma's house and now my parents house has become the place to go. It was always a family affair - parents cooked and I remember when I was young and my brother, sister and me playing board games or whatever till dinner. After dinner the kids did dishes as Grandma didn't have a dishwasher... stuffing, mash potatoes, and gravy - followed by the feeling of needing a nap that always comes with turkey!
So for this blog I am asking everyone at home to leave me comment, favorite memory, dish, thing about Thanksgiving. We won't have a full dinner here so please Canada I have shared alot of stories of my adventures and I have just shared my Thanksgiving memory... I wanna hear it BEST THING ABOUT THANKSGIVING!!! Please warm my Canadian Heart with fond memories from home, eh?
I love Pumpkin Pie! Give me a quarter of the pie with a huge scoop of whipped cream. It may be gluttonous and put me in a food coma, but I look forward to the delicious dessert at the end of every big meal this time of year!
ReplyDeleteI think my favorite part of thanksgiving is just the coming together of friends and family. As corny as that sounds, but it's just how it's always been done in my family. There was always alot of people and a lot of food, and you could never eat enough. It seemed my family would watch what would everyone would put on their plates, ready to pile on more if they thought you didn't take enough. It's amazing we all didn't weigh 300lbs after every meal. Ahh.. the holidays =D
ReplyDeleteIt is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your Thanksgiving stories with me! I love hearing from everyone.
ReplyDeleteI'm sharing all my adventures with you back in the Okanagan, so if you can share one memory of Thanksgiving that would be great. Here at Petraia we didn't celebrate Thanksgiving so I'll be celebrating through you.