Thanksgiving

I can't believe that my little house last night had a full sit down cooked thanksgiving dinner for thirteen people.  Quite comfortably actually! To start with we had stuffed celery with bluecheese/cream cheese and pineapple/cream cheese and nuts and olives and sweet pickles.  For mains we had a HUGE turkey, bean casserole, Pioneer Woman's creamy mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes/candied yams grilled with butter and brown sugar, mom's amazing stuffing balls, bread rolls, gravy and coleslaw.  It was all sooooo good.  Clean plates all round! After dinner we had cherry pie, pumpkin pie, cream and ice cream, followed by our newest invention - pumpkin pie shots.  Its a mix of vanilla vodka and pumpkin spice syrup (Thanks Leigh <3) topped with a squirt of whipped cream and sprinkled with pumpkin pie spice (thanks again :) )They looked so pretty! And tasted pretty good too!
It was fun to cook these things for a room full of Australians who had no idea what was traditionally eaten at a thanksgiving meal or what the point of thanksgiving is (explanations were necessary)
To add to that it was about 30C/86F and 90% humidity! Without the aircon we would have melted!
It is lots of work to co-ordinate that many dishes coming together hot at the same time! Couldn't have done it without mom's help... She's the best (and her stuffing is out of this world..did I mention that already??)
Alas - no photos.... as we were clearing the table we remembered that we had wanted to take a couple! Too late! But here's a photo before it all started.
I am thankful for friends and family... and mom's stuffing.