Thanksgiving!

I am certainly thankful for all things in life, including the opportunity to celebrate and be a culinary part of the Thanksgiving experience with my host family! Almost the whole conception of the menu was from Shana, and I made tofurkey and cheese-cake with chocolate covered strawberries...Also helped with the mashed potatoes/gravy and stuffing preparation which were pretty much out of a box/package.

Dinner menu included real turkey, stuffed tofu-turkey, stuffing, mashed-potatoes with gravy, creamed corn, honey corn-bread, spinach and mushroom lasagna roll-ups, mixed greens salad with pomegranate topped with rasberry dressing, butternut squash soup which was so thick everyone just used it as a gravy. Dessert included cheesecake, but there was also pumpkin pie which people sort of forgot about... 

I may have forgotten something unintentionally. We were supposed to have herb roasted potatoes but most of those became a little too roasted (burnt) and inedible.

Almost forgot to mention one of the appetizers which was all just eatten with the rest of the foods...Crostinis! (Apparently it means "little toast" in Italian). Somewhat similar to Bruschettas, these are little toasts of bread (we used french bread/baguettes), and topped it with goat cheese, and then a fried blend of sundried tomatoes mixed with some other things...they were pretty delicious!

Oh, and we also had some devilled eggs.

My partner in crime also made a delcious cranberry and orange-zest jam that was pretty good.