Thanksgiving Holiday

Thanksgiving is finally here. The day where we all eat constantly and love it.

I look forward to this day because the food on this day is for the most part a once a year experience. Now for those of you that are reading this outside the US, I must specify that the Thanksgiving food in my house is not the traditional "American" thanksgiving meal because we're Puerto Ricans so our food has the Spanish influence. Traditional American food includes the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, maybe green beans/green bean casserole and pumpkin pie for dessert. Every family has their variation of this and our "Spanish" version includes rice with lentils (Spanish: arroz con gandules), maple glazed sweet potatoes, stuffing made from ground beef, pork and potatoes mixed with regular stuffing, potato salad and this year I added maple glazed carrots.

My mom got up at 4am to stuff the turkey so that it would be ready by lunchtime. I forgot to take pictures of the table when we were eating so I only have pictures of the food. I had to turn the turkey around for the picture so you don't see the half that we ate!


My dad's specialty are the glazed sweet potatoes which were awesome as usual.


Here's the rice...it's a bad picture.


Because Nick had to work the first half of the day rather than visiting his parents, they visited us. Here's Nick, Mary, Ron and Baby.

Thanksgiving day is coincidentally my mother's birthday as well so we sang a quick Happy Birthday as she opened her presents. You would think that we'd never forget her birthday but with all the preparations for the Thanksgiving meal we tend to overlook it until later in the day.

We stuffed ourselves with food and at night we watched movies in the family room. This officially marks the beginning of the Christmas season. So expect updates more often.