Thanksgiving

Some people have been asking what's happened at Maji for Thanksgiving, and unfortunately we did not have a turkey. I've seen them around, heading to Mawe Hai and other places, but they aren't really in the market. Lyn said she saw a man carrying one the other day, but before she could get to him the traffic started moving and he was gone. Oh well, there's always Christmas.

We have been looking for a pumpkin too without much luck. They are growing at Mawe Hai but there aren't any fruits yet. Thanksgiving day the girls came into the hospital, and there was Wilfrieda with a pumpkin. She had been out somewhere and got this pumpkin and they convinced her to give it to them, so we had pie (made by Christina) and pumpkin seeds.

A trip to the import store brought us apple sauce, apples, and canned corn. The apple sauce was done with just a little cinnamon and the canned corn was simple enough. The apples were expertly turned into a delicous apple crisp by Melisa.

The mamas made the chicken. It tasted delicous with the apple sauce. The stuffing was a combined effort and turned out pretty well considering we didn't have all the ingredients and were making one and a half the recipe and converting things like mad between metric and english units. I think it was a fair success.

The beans were sort of stir fried with almonds and some herbs and they were delicous too. Then we come to the mashed potatoes. When the mamas make mashed potatoes, it is like a lump of potatoes and that's it. It's really little more than cooked potatoes put together into one huge potato volcano. We made garlic mashed potatoes with a mixer found in the back room and they were delicous. Harper kept getting the one mama to taste everything and she had a wide range of expressions that I didn't fully get, but it was rather funny.

Dinner was upstairs in the girl's apartment and it was candlelight, and wine, and flowers, and food, and talk. It was great. We did the traditional Thanksgiving thing saying what we were thankful for, and sat for a long time talking. It was a really good night.

It took a bit longer too because none of the girls wanted to go to bed. Lyn is heading to Germany today and 4 of the ladies will be gone when she gets back. It's just going to be Harper and I for long term guests for a while. I hope everyone else's Thanksgiving was well and you had a lot to be thankful for.