Thanksgiving!

Almost Christmas time and us slackers haven't got our Thanksgiving post up. Anyways, better late!

We hosted Thanksgiving for the first time this year, although our turkey binge-ing was postponed to Friday. Junaid and Ruki joined us from Oklahoma and Dhruva and Nikki from California. What followed was three days of eating. Literally.

Junaid and Ranjit handled the bird while I kind of delegated tasks (hehe!) and later Ruki and I chopped and baked and mashed and hashed out our huge meal. The turkey itself was brined and spice rubbed and injected with marinades and basted and fussed over. It tasted good -- as far as turkeys go, at least.

The kids were spoiled with all the attention from doting uncles and aunties who played and tickled and read to them!

The rest of the visited included a trip to the Saturday market for lunch, a trip to the Chinese Garden for tea, a trip to Trader Joe's for ingredients for more food (and tiramisu) and lunch at the fancy Peruvian place, Andina's. Yeah, it's going to take some New Year's resolutions to work off the calories from that Thanksgiving.

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