The Saturday after Thanksgiving, Nozomi and I had dinner with her family. Turkey is expensive and hard to find, so we roasted three whole chickens. We also made green bean casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, mince pie, and pecan pie. Nozomi's mother made salads, including one with kabu no tsukemono (pickled Japanese turnip) which made it into a delicious international Thanksgiving dinner. My original plan of having an early dinner/late lunch at 3:00 turned out to be, well, unrealistic... After the chicken took longer to roast than the recipe said, which meant the drippings weren't ready to use to make the gravy (I see that making Thanksgiving dinner is a series of dominoes now...) we finally sat down to eat at about 5:00. It was later than planned, but very delicious, and Nozomi's family said they enjoyed their first Thanksgiving dinner.
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