Happy Thanksgiving

For the past few years, every Thanksgiving, the Wiardas - my Aunt-in-law and Uncle-in-law would invite us to their home for a sumptuous Thanksgiving dinner.

However, at the end of last year, the Wiardas decided to move back to the United States. I really miss them (they are one of the nicest people around) and their Thanksgiving dinner which is legendary. They cooked everything from scratch! Yes, that included the roast turkey, the turkey sauce, the turkey stuffing, the cranberry sauce, honey baked ham, carrot-raisin salad, Cesar salad, mashed potato, and for dessert, they always made mud pie and carrot cake. Yum, yum!!!

This year, however, there is no Thanksgiving dinner at Wiardas' place, too far to travel so we had it at Lawry's instead, lol.

The girls had their usual Kid's Burger (chicken) which came with the Lawry's Spinning Salad, a juice and dessert: strawberry ice cream. (Pictures were posted in a previous Lawry's post on 27 October.)

We, the parents, decided to have the Thanksgiving Dinner set.
For appetiser, we had the Steam Baked Slipper Lobster Mousse: mixed vegetable lobster mousse served with a spicy Balsamic mushroom sauce. The lobster mousse was a little bland but at least, I could taste the lobster. The sauce was pretty spicy but added taste to the lobster mousse.


We had the Spinning Salad again. (Again , pic was shown on 27 October post.) For the main course, we chose Traditional Oven Roasted Turkey ($68.80): 3 slices of turkey breast served with lemon cranberry sauce, Tarragon bread stuffing, Idaho mashed potato, turkey gravy and buttered peas. The turkey was not too dry and went really well with the gravy and the cranberry sauce which was given a twist with lemon added into it. The stuffing was really delicious and not too salty.


For dessert, we ordered the Pistachio Pumpkin Cheese Cake: served with vanilla ice cream and strawberry pumpkin sauce and the Oven Baked Pecan Pie: served with vanilla ice cream and chocolate mocha sauce. Both were superb! The lemon in the cheese cake actually brought out the taste of the pumpkin. The pecan pie was a tad sweet for me but it was really yummy.




We ended the dinner with tea and coffee. It was a good hearty meal but I still miss the Wiardas' Thanksgiving dinner.

For this Thanksgiving, I give thanks for my health, for my two girls, for my family and for my many good friends and their friendships!