A Very English Thanksgiving!

There's actually no English Thanksgiving, as I'm sure you're all aware. But then when we Brits live here in the States we have to take advantage of your holidays too, and Thanksgiving is a wonderful opportunity to get family together, eat and drink to excess and be quite merry, and we did… Sadly, without Edi who was still in California, and Bob who is in Grenada getting Daisy ready for the circumnavigation. So it was just me, Nic, Sam and Danni, but we still had fun. Sam helped with shucking the oysters and making us all cocktails while we cooked. Nic made Oysters Rockafella for our appetizer, which were absolutely delicious, and Danni found a pearl in one of her oysters. I made the entree, Roasted Goose with a port and cranberry dressing, green beans in hollandaise, twice baked potatoes with pureed parsnips, roasted sprouts, roast parsnips and chestnut and date stuffing. Danni decorated our humungous Thanksgiving cake made of coffee, chocolate and Scotch whisky decorated with shaved white and dark chocolate over a rich creamy Baileys, buttercream frosting… All washed down with several bottles of wine and champagne. Needless to say the following day we were all really suffering from the overindulgence of too much rich food, alcohol and diabetic shock! Fortunately these holidays excuses for shameless overindulgence only happen twice a year. We drank water by the pint, and the fridge stayed pretty much untouched for the day. Late afternoon we all took a long walk enjoying the crisp, fresh air on a beautiful sunny day. Now we have just a few short weeks to diet it all off before Christmas, when we can do it all over again...