Happy...Chicken Day?

Well, ok it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as Turkey day, but it was still a pretty tasty member of the fowl family over which to give our thanks to God for the abundance of the year. Thanksgiving for this rag-tag batch of MCCers from all over the place (ok, just Canada the US and Zimbabwe), came on Saturday, but the preparations began on Friday. So we cooked and baked and prepared for 2 days, the shopping the bread and pie baking, peeling potatoes and snapping beans.




Usually I just make the mashed potatoes (a duty which my brother Bob has taken over in my absence) so this was my first true experience in being responsible for all of Thanksgiving…a rather daunting task indeed. We started out the day with apple dumplings and icecream and argentine sweet bread, but the full Thanksgiving meal boasted roasted chicken, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy (a mysterious miracle), sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, jello salad, pumpkin pie (yes, it was delicious perfection), and peanutbutter pie, complete with homemade bread. Thankfully it was truly tasty and worthy of the gut-wrenching state of filled-ness that follows eating more than you should because you just can’t stop yourself from gorging yourself on the once a year wonder that is Thanksgiving - an event made possible by teamwork, good company and good food :)