Thanksgiving

What do you do in a country that does not know what a spiral cut ham is? Or that brown sugar is actually different than regular sugar? Personally they need to know these things, especially the ham. This country loves salt! A ham would be perfect!

They do sell turkeys here for Christmas. But if you want one earlier you need to go to the import supermarket. They do not sell canned pumpkin there, but they do make pumpkin pie. I guess there is enough ex-pats here that they all sell. I did not go to this store and I was not about to boil down real pumpkin to make my pie - too much work. Of course that is saying something since it takes me three hours to cook black beans. Lazy much? Yes, actually. Alas, I will wait for my pie at Christmas. Mom don't forget to put the sugar in it!

Well, it was just us, so I did not go get a huge turkey. I went next door and bought some turkey breast, potatoes, and onion soup mix and threw it in the slow cooker with garlic, sage and butter. It was extremely delicious. I am lucky this is a Latin country so that we could have our black beans for the husband. Of course my maid was looking at me while I was making them and trying to figure out why I would put the things I do in them. Apparently, Brazilian feijao is different than Cuban friejoles negros. But it turned they out well and she actually thought they were tasty though not salty enough.

It was a mix really: Argentine wine, American flavored turkey and potatoes, Cuban black beans, Brazilian asparagus, French bread, American stuffing, and plain old white rice.

The boys actually had school on Thursday since we go to an International British school, who does not recognize Thanksgiving, so we had Thanksgiving on Friday after school. The boys stayed up later and we had great family time. We hope that everyone wherever they are, had a great holiday!