BUT! Thanksgiving!
So early on Ben and I decided we wanted to host Thanksgiving. We are big cooking people and we like having people over. We have hosted international Thanksgivings before so we figured we were good people for the job. We took care of the turkey and stuffing and did the rest potluck style.
The challenges: turkey. It's difficult to find turkey around here. There is a bar/restaurant downtown that caters to foreigners (and is run by foreigners) that sells holiday meat around the holidays. So for an arm and a leg we covered the turkey. 2. Bread. It's all puffy white bread here so Ben and I made bread. Fortunately Ben worked on a farm in Italy and made bread every Friday for 5 months. Convection oven. I love our convection oven, but it does take some getting used to and some recipe tweaking to use it. The turkey came out perfectly, the stuffing was a little dry in spots, but mostly pretty delicious.
We used veggies from the market and cooked for like six hours. We set up the apartment with all kinds of weird seating, different level tables, cheap table clothes, candles, and wine. But it looked awesome and we had a great turn out of people. It is pretty cool to be in a foreign country and have over a dozen people come over to celebrate a holiday with you. I am thankful indeed to have so many great friends who welcomed us so quickly.
Anyway, everyone brought AMAZING food. It took a lot of re-arranging just to fit everything. We all pigged out and then played cards against humanity (for those of you who don't know, this is the pg-13 version of apples to apples). There were tears of laughter involved. The last people left at 2:30 in the morning. It was a massive success.
As is proper, we have been living off the leftovers this week.
Christmas shopping has begun and we are looking forward to our next holiday in Gwangju.
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