Thanksgiving. Clare and I got talked into hosting Thanksgiving. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes...the whole nine. Neither of us had prepared a Thanksgiving dinner before. Regular dinner party? Sure, but this isn't a regular dinner party.
So, how did we get talked into hosting Thanksgiving? Well, in the summer of 2009, Clare and I bought our first place, a condo in Lincoln Square. (Who knew that the American Dream involved so much debt?) We loved having people over for group dinners, but we never had enough seating, so one of the first pieces of furniture that we bought was a gigantic table from Ikea. With a table this size we were either going to have everyone over for Thanksgiving dinner or start landing planes on it. Knowing what Mayor Daley did to Meigs Field, we opted for Thanksgiving.
Of course we needed to roast our first turkey, but we also had to make lumpia by ourselves, attempt cranberry sauce, perfect cornbread dressing, and put some finishing touches on our mashed potato recipe. The next few posts will be all about our very first Thanksgiving Feast. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did creating them.
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