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cattitude, adrian_turtle, and I) had Thanksgiving dinner with my mother yesterday, and everyone had a wonderful time (though we're pretty tired today).
This is the first time we've seen my mother -- and the first time she's been in the United States -- since February 2020. She's here until tomorrow afternoon, and is then going to New Orleans to visit my brother.
The menu was mostly what the three of us usually do, plus an odd slaw (involving shredded Brussels sprouts, pickled onions, and pomegranate seeds) that everyone else liked. Adrian had offered me a sample last week, and I decided that I didn't really like it, unsurprising given that I generally don't like sprouts.
We had a minor problem with dessert, and Adrian had to find a replacement recipe for the apple crisp topping--I'd been sure we had rolled oats, but that seems to have been me remembering seeing them at Adrian's. (There are some disadvantages to regularly cooking in two kitchens.) What we wound up with was fine, if not as good as what we usually make, but finding it was part of why things took longer than we'd expected. While the crisp was in the oven, I realized, and said, that the failure mode of this would be that we had to eat chocolate cake, which I was pretty sure we could all cope with.
cattitude, adrian_turtle, and I) had Thanksgiving dinner with my mother yesterday, and everyone had a wonderful time (though we're pretty tired today).This is the first time we've seen my mother -- and the first time she's been in the United States -- since February 2020. She's here until tomorrow afternoon, and is then going to New Orleans to visit my brother.
The menu was mostly what the three of us usually do, plus an odd slaw (involving shredded Brussels sprouts, pickled onions, and pomegranate seeds) that everyone else liked. Adrian had offered me a sample last week, and I decided that I didn't really like it, unsurprising given that I generally don't like sprouts.
We had a minor problem with dessert, and Adrian had to find a replacement recipe for the apple crisp topping--I'd been sure we had rolled oats, but that seems to have been me remembering seeing them at Adrian's. (There are some disadvantages to regularly cooking in two kitchens.) What we wound up with was fine, if not as good as what we usually make, but finding it was part of why things took longer than we'd expected. While the crisp was in the oven, I realized, and said, that the failure mode of this would be that we had to eat chocolate cake, which I was pretty sure we could all cope with.
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