We had our very first Thanksgiving dinner last Saturday! We had never experienced one before, and I have to say, it felt a bit Christmassy!
We first knew about it from one of our American English teacher friends over here who initially invited us over to a thanksgiving “feast” via Facebook The event to take place wasn’t exactly on the proper day, November 26th, but was arranged last weekend so lots of people could attend. The event was to be held in the teachers apart-uh which as previous readers know, isn’t usually such a big space for these kind of things, especially in the cooking department. Usual cooking appliance tends to be a small worktop toaster over, which unless is a big one, wont take kindly to a 16lb turkey being stuffed into it for 5 hours.
We thought about her dilemma, and offered up our apart-uh space and it’s larger than usual cooking facilities including a full size under hob gas oven big enough for turkey and all the trimmings. The event was scheduled to host around 20 or so guests, all friends of our friend. Feeding that many hungry American, English (1 Scottish) and Canadian gobs would require more than one turkey. We got the task of sticking the big bird (16lb) in our oven, while the smaller 8lb basked in the heat of the toaster oven back at the teachers apart-uh. Saturday morning was spent basting this huge bird, which had been pre-stuffed with a nice herby bread stuffing sticking out it’s bum. Time spent on the sofa waiting between bastes felt just like a typical Christmas morning back home. We intend to spend actual Christmas day over here probably in Seoul taking in the turkey dinner at one of the international hotels like the Hilton or Ritz-Carlton, to avoid having to do such a thing. But here I was, basting waiting, then basting again! All we were missing was the crumpled up wrapping paper strewn across the floor, and the inevitable pairs of socks for gifts or gloves because we can never think what to get each other for
We first knew about it from one of our American English teacher friends over here who initially invited us over to a thanksgiving “feast” via Facebook The event to take place wasn’t exactly on the proper day, November 26th, but was arranged last weekend so lots of people could attend. The event was to be held in the teachers apart-uh which as previous readers know, isn’t usually such a big space for these kind of things, especially in the cooking department. Usual cooking appliance tends to be a small worktop toaster over, which unless is a big one, wont take kindly to a 16lb turkey being stuffed into it for 5 hours.
We thought about her dilemma, and offered up our apart-uh space and it’s larger than usual cooking facilities including a full size under hob gas oven big enough for turkey and all the trimmings. The event was scheduled to host around 20 or so guests, all friends of our friend. Feeding that many hungry American, English (1 Scottish) and Canadian gobs would require more than one turkey. We got the task of sticking the big bird (16lb) in our oven, while the smaller 8lb basked in the heat of the toaster oven back at the teachers apart-uh. Saturday morning was spent basting this huge bird, which had been pre-stuffed with a nice herby bread stuffing sticking out it’s bum. Time spent on the sofa waiting between bastes felt just like a typical Christmas morning back home. We intend to spend actual Christmas day over here probably in Seoul taking in the turkey dinner at one of the international hotels like the Hilton or Ritz-Carlton, to avoid having to do such a thing. But here I was, basting waiting, then basting again! All we were missing was the crumpled up wrapping paper strewn across the floor, and the inevitable pairs of socks for gifts or gloves because we can never think what to get each other for
gifts!
Our American friend came over at about 11:30 bring with her, loads of Tupperware dishes full of cooked and uncooked goodies, such as devilled eggs, pumpkin pies, salad vegetables etc, all fit for the feast! We had told her that we would leave all the cooking and preparation to her to sort out, but as usual, I couldn’t keep out of the kitchen, and had to help rattle up some chopped this and that, cooked bits and bob’s and other such things. The turkey came out after 5 ½ hours and was done to a treat – it took a whole load of will power not to start picking at the meat or roast potatoes on the side (OK – I admit it, I did pick but only a wee bit!)
Folks started arriving at around 5:00pm, and our friend was a busy beaver in the kitchen, mixing this, stirring that, and at this point I left her to it – this was her party after all, and I didn’t want to take any of glory. The house was full of chatter in between gob-stuffing, and everyone had plenty of room to move about, and eat till their hearts content. Drinks were available, such as the local retard juice Soju and plenty of Mecju (beer) but the invite did say if you wanted something else, then bring your own. Some folks brought more beer, some wine and one even brought a bottle of Bacardi Rum – I didn’t get the chance to sample some, as it seemed to go very quickly!
Much chatting was done, and we made a whole lot of new friends that night, some having now exchanged Facebook details with us. We think we might now recognize a whole new bunch of people when we go out on the town at night.
We might even host our own Thanksgiving party next year….make sure you’re free!
Our American friend came over at about 11:30 bring with her, loads of Tupperware dishes full of cooked and uncooked goodies, such as devilled eggs, pumpkin pies, salad vegetables etc, all fit for the feast! We had told her that we would leave all the cooking and preparation to her to sort out, but as usual, I couldn’t keep out of the kitchen, and had to help rattle up some chopped this and that, cooked bits and bob’s and other such things. The turkey came out after 5 ½ hours and was done to a treat – it took a whole load of will power not to start picking at the meat or roast potatoes on the side (OK – I admit it, I did pick but only a wee bit!)
Folks started arriving at around 5:00pm, and our friend was a busy beaver in the kitchen, mixing this, stirring that, and at this point I left her to it – this was her party after all, and I didn’t want to take any of glory. The house was full of chatter in between gob-stuffing, and everyone had plenty of room to move about, and eat till their hearts content. Drinks were available, such as the local retard juice Soju and plenty of Mecju (beer) but the invite did say if you wanted something else, then bring your own. Some folks brought more beer, some wine and one even brought a bottle of Bacardi Rum – I didn’t get the chance to sample some, as it seemed to go very quickly!
Much chatting was done, and we made a whole lot of new friends that night, some having now exchanged Facebook details with us. We think we might now recognize a whole new bunch of people when we go out on the town at night.
We might even host our own Thanksgiving party next year….make sure you’re free!
Sounds great, you certainly had a good time.
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