As I was going through some pictures yesterday, I realized I hadn’t told you about my Thanksgiving!
Back in the US, my family does Thanksgiving just like everyone else’s family… turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy and lots of desserts! When I was in college in Cancun, I never had any fall breaks. Now that I’m working, I only get back home for Christmas. So I haven’t been home for Thanksgiving since 2005, I think. (or seen any fall weather, for that matter!)
This year, my suegros took pity on me and prepared a lovely Thanksgiving dinner. They invited some of their friends, and I invited some of mine. We had a pretty big group (not all are pictured), including an American priest from the church my suegros go to.
There was turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy and lots of veggies! Everyone seemed to really enjoy all the American food. I was almost expecting them to break out the tortillas, but they resisted.
Thanksgiving dinner still had some undeniably Mexican touches to it, though… dinner didn’t begin until 10:30 pm, the turkey was heavily seasoned with lime, the dinner was blessed by a Catholic priest, and the priest had to explain the Thanskgiving story several times to our Mexican guests. Close enough!
Me being a dork
Oh mashed potatoes… it’s been too long since we last met!
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Oh, that’s SO awesome that they did that for you! Wow – seriously, what a great thing to be able to be a part of, for you and them!
10:30 pm .. holy crap .. then go to bed on such a FULL tummy! Well, glad you had a sort of American Thanksgiving dinner!
What an incredibly thoughtful thing to do and it looks so fun!
But I sure hope they understand that we don’t normally eat a meal THAT big at 10:30 p.m.!
What a nice thing for your in-laws to do for you. It sounds like you had a lovely time.
So Jorge will have to have the famous family Christmas morning breakfast…
I tried explaining Mommy’s Christmas breakfast to him last night, but words weren’t enough.
They didn’t stuff it with picadillo, then apple & pineapple? Turkey w/o ground meat stuffing? Que norteamericana! My last food post was about making turkey “Isla Mujeres” syle…it’s complicated (and tasty)…like most of the local food! Cooking traditional (North) American food just got easier in Isla Mujeres with the opening of the Chedraui…which has the forum buzzin. I enjoy your blog!
The stuffing they made did look more like picadillo, actually! (Not quite, but close)
Off to check out your blog…
I had to smile when I read this.I will be moving to Salamanca GTO next year and I plan on making Thanksgiving dinner for my husband who has already moved.He lived in the states for over twenty years and this is his second thanksgiving in Mexico since his return.He wanted to know everything I made, especially pumpkin pie! So he will be having Turkey Day in January!
I’m glad your friends came through for you. It looks like a great dinner (and yum on the taters too!)
That’s so sweet of them! The meal looks awesome and lime turkey sounds very intriguing… 🙂
That is so sweet! I bet that turkey was delish with all the lime, that’s the way I like my roast chicken.
They did this all just for you??!! That is the sweetest!!! I had no idea you’ve lived in Cancun that long and that you went to college there too. How cool!
How sweet of them to do that for you. 😀 Looks like a great day.