Thanksgiving

We managed to have a fairly traditional Thanksgiving in Norway, except we celebrated on Friday instead of Thursday! When I was home last summer I brought back a few ingredients that I knew would be hard to come by over here, my Mom also mailed me a few more and the rest we managed to either find in the store or improvise. We invited over two of our Norwegian friends that had never eaten an American Thanksgiving and it was a fun a night. The cool thing about sharing a tradition with people is giving them a chance to see how another culture does things. Some of the foods that the Norwegians had never eaten included; homemade mashed potatoes, stuffing, cheese sauce and pie! They enjoyed trying all of it. As a host gift we got a bottle of rum from none other than Cuba! How cool is that.
The biggest turkey we could find was about 13.89 lbs which was just about perfect. Anything bigger would not have fit in our tiny oven.
Avery all dressed up and the table set!