A Little Bit of Canada
So yesterday was Thanksgiving in Canada. Me and Lian both didn't want to spend it alone so we came up with the brilliant idea to make Thanksgiving dinner at my house for my host family. Holy cow. For anyone who does not know of my cooking back at home, I live by the saying, "If it can't be microwaved, it's not worth eating." Lian is the same. Maybe its just a Canadian thing.
Anyways, on the menu was turkey of course, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, cauliflower and broccoli, cheese sauce and cheesecake. You might see a number of problems already. The vegtables are no problem, but no one has gravy with their meat here, same with Turkey and cheese sauce, so its pretty much impossible to find. No one here even knows what stuffing is. I got the recipes from my mom and my dad and my host mom took me to the grocery store. Now, we couldn't get an actual whole turkey, instead we got this loaf od turkey, it kind of looked and smelled and tasted like a ham. I think it was a ham. Lian disagrees.
Lian slept over at my house and sunday morning we started cooking. Gong show. The turkey took waaaaaay too long to cook so the stuffing was late. We managed to kill the mashed potatoes and melt an oven mitt together. The veggies were okay and the stuffing was by far the best part. The cheese sauce cooled down too quickly and ended up looking more like margarine or jello.
It turned out to be okay and the cheesecake was delicious. Mostly cause it was made by my host mom. All in all, a very good day. Bringing a bit of Canada to Finland.
Anyways, on the menu was turkey of course, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, cauliflower and broccoli, cheese sauce and cheesecake. You might see a number of problems already. The vegtables are no problem, but no one has gravy with their meat here, same with Turkey and cheese sauce, so its pretty much impossible to find. No one here even knows what stuffing is. I got the recipes from my mom and my dad and my host mom took me to the grocery store. Now, we couldn't get an actual whole turkey, instead we got this loaf od turkey, it kind of looked and smelled and tasted like a ham. I think it was a ham. Lian disagrees.
Lian slept over at my house and sunday morning we started cooking. Gong show. The turkey took waaaaaay too long to cook so the stuffing was late. We managed to kill the mashed potatoes and melt an oven mitt together. The veggies were okay and the stuffing was by far the best part. The cheese sauce cooled down too quickly and ended up looking more like margarine or jello.
It turned out to be okay and the cheesecake was delicious. Mostly cause it was made by my host mom. All in all, a very good day. Bringing a bit of Canada to Finland.
