Traditional Thanksgiving meal prepared from scratch with all the proper fixin's by one very very generous and brave soul. One of the American girls also on rotation here offered to cook about 12 of us a Thanksgiving meal! I love Thanksgiving food!!!
I was a bit hesitant to post up this pic because Thanksgiving did have a major flaw in it- Jessica and Joe were invited as well, and I was supposed to meet them up right before. Well, our meeting location did not work out and I changed the location thinking that Jessica would have her phone on her....but unfortunately she left it home! I was also really sick that day and likely had a fever at the time, so I was not the most coherent myself (it's getting quite cold here!!). Long story short, our plans to meet up completely failed, and I felt terrible that they missed out on the gathering of Americans :(
Another thing I have learned is that working on Thanksgiving is the pits. I will not be doing that again next year. I didn't realise how important having the day off was!
The next day, since I also had to work then, I went to Borough Market for lunch. Borough Market happens every week Thursday-Saturday on the River Thames, and tons of vendors sell food from all over the world both ready to eat and groceries/special ingredients to cook with! They have really good empanadas and paella, for example. This week they had a special THANKSGIVING SANDWICH. I knew I had to sink my teeth into one of these. All I could think of was Friends and Ross's special Thanksgiving sandwich with the "moist maker." This one was sans moist maker but did have plenty of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and spinach! It was a pretty rockin' lunch!
Random British factoid: Apparently turkey is a really popular dish for Christmas. All the stores are advertising for people to order their Christmas turkeys now. Strange! They should get on board with Thanksgiving and moist makers.
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