Julie and I put on an American Thanksgiving meal on Sunday out at Bobchi's. The food consisted of cornish hens with wild rice and onion stuffing, ham, yams (as sweet potatoes aren't available here, unless you want the white ones -- which we didn't), corn, green beans, homemade pickles (sweet and dill), cranberry sauce, homemade biscuits, and stuffing, with pecan pie for dessert.
Originally, I was planning to make Granny's cornbread dressing recipe, but others insisted that Stovetop has a cornbread-based stuffing that's just like the real thing, only easier to make. Of course, I realize now in retrospect that Canadians can't really say for sure if something tastes like real Southern-style stuffing when they've NEVER HAD IT BEFORE. (Note: Turns out, Stovetop's cornbread stuffing is almost exactly like regular Yankee stuffing -- surprise!) Since my itch hasn't been scratched yet, I'm planning to use Granny's recipe in the near future to show them what dressing is supposed to be like.
In any case, my nifty-ometer just about broke when I realized that I'd just shared my American Thanksgiving with real Indians and second-generation Europeans. In our own way, we replicated the first Thanksgiving meal 388 years ago. How neat is that?
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