Happy Thanksgiving!Ok, it might be a bit belated, but none of my European friends are any the wiser. Lena and I had to keep postponing our Thanksgiving celebration, and almost scrapped the idea, but finally decided we couldn't go an entire year without our favorite foods. So we pulled Pavel (our turkey) out of the freezer and decided to host a Prague Thanksgiving in mid-December.
I tried to go shopping for ingredients a couple of days ago, but to my surprise I came back empty handed. Now this may be a "well, duh" moment for the rest of you, but apparently most of our traditional thanksgiving ingredients don't exist in Prague, or Europe for that matter. I finally came to the realization that the first Thanksgiving feast was hosted by the Native American's to:
1. Generously share their bounty with the new arrivals who were starving to death.
2. Introduce the newcomers to "new world" dishes they don't have in Europe (like green bean casserole, and yams with marshmallows).
However, like a true Thanksgiving miracle we found sweet potatoes, and cranberry sauce just in time, and were able to improvise the rest--making stuffing from scratch just like our forefathers.
So in the end we were able to share the joys of an American Thanksgiving with our new friends from Bulgaria, Turkey, the Czech Republic, and Montenegro. The "orange potato" dish was a hit, and I've never seen a group find green bean casserole so exotic.
Happy Thanksgiving from Prague
Jaro, Me, Nazira, Lena
Pavel
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Poor Pavel.
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