The other Thanksgiving

After our dinner at the Mexican Restaurant, we knew that our Thanksgiving was not complete. We had a "real" one the following Saturday. We had a bunch of Chinese friends over and cooked a real American style Thanksgiving dinner to the best of our abilities with the resources at hand.

Many of the girls came early because they wanted to see how we cooked things. They were pretty curious and excited about it all.

Peeling and slicing the sweet potatoes.

Cooking the sweet potatoes. My mom caramelizes them in a frying pan with brown sugar. So yummy.

The turkey was meaty enough, but not plump like in America. It was about 13 or so pounds. The Chinese were all very intrigued by it. We found it at a Costco like store that imports food.

 They all took pictures of the turkey with their phones. They had never seen a turkey before.

Intrigued by the carving of the turkey.

The whole group before eating. Back L to R: Selena (Daniel's assistant), Mike, Dragon, Michael, Daniel, Licy, Sunny and her son, Susan, Bella, and Yimi (our Chinese tutor). Front: Ashley and Molly.

 The food. Jello, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes (They couldn't believe that after baking them and mashing them with butter and milk that we were done. Selena kept wanting us to add more butter. She loves butter.) And the Turkey. For dessert there was gingerbread and apple crumble. We had various cheeses for them to taste, which they enjoyed, and some vegetables to snack on until it was all ready.

 Dragon and Selena with a turkey leg each. The Chinese love the dark meat.

 Michael, Molly, Licy, Susan, Bella and Selena enjoying the meal.

 Selena ate her whole leg!! Such a tiny girl ate so much. So many of them do.

Sunny's little boy ate a whole plateful of jell-o and absolutely loved it. I told him he had a red tongue and he stuck it out and then laughed so hard. He was so cute.

The week before, Yimi had just returned from a trip to Utah that she won from work. While there she played and was given her own box of dominoes. They played with a vengeance! They all loved and were so competitive. It was funny.

All in all it was a great dinner and we had so much fun. They loved the food and we plan on doing an American meal for them a few more times while we are here.