thanksgiving!

so thanksgiving for my students did not even get close to touching all the issues i had worried about. i basically boiled it down to:

thanksgiving = family, food, football...and in general being thankful for what you have

not that i really care too much about football, but kids uhh literally go crazy when you show them a small "bears" football that i bought for a dollar. (i also taught them how to say "da bears" with a good chicago accent)

now one interesting tidbit is that french children apparently think pumpkin pie is disgusting. they eat duck liver, snails, frog legs...but pumpkin pie...gross.

i didn't make pumpkin pie tonight but i did make a mini thanksgiving feast. haha...i literally filled up the dishwasher with all the dishes i used. a sign of a cusiniere debutante laughs my roomate! well i made some fine fried turkey filets, mushrooms with spices whose names i had quite a time translating into french to go grocery shopping and honey carrots! yay!

note: to get to the "turkey section" of the grocery store you have to walk by the "rabbit section."

:-(

i also had to do MAJOR conversion calculations for these recipes. i'm not even joking--took me 3 hours. converting cups to grams, tablespoons to mls then to cls. trying to figure out what a 1/4 of a teaspoon would be exactly. ahhhh!

saturday i am going to a full out thanksgiving dinner, to which i said i would bring a pumpkin cake. (a la recette annie koz!) however, there is no canned pumpkin here. there is a gord-like object which my roomate says i can use instead...but it's definitely not a pumpkin. i want to make a cream cheese icing...there is no cream cheese here. any other kind of cheese you need, oui, but no cream cheese. so we'll see.

and after dinner we all watched prison break. ohhh thanksgiving.