Happy Thanksgiving Timmy and Kettles
November 22, 2007 11:57 pmSo I thought I would give you a picture story of Paul’s New York Thanksgiving so far (its just gone 3pm)
(1) The clock bing bonged at a calm 9am – I got out of bed and went downstairs to the market to get some coffee and vegetables for my dish tonight that I am taking to Rob & Lindi’s for Thanksgiving dinner.
The market was fun. There was a hilarious woman in the line in front of me – she was all dressed up with a feather hat on, lots of make up and fur – only thing she was pissed … this made for a lot of humor at the counter. Naturally I was the one right behind her … the checkout woman looks at me and mouths “sorry”, haha im like “dont worry sweatheart, this is great entertainment for Thanksgiving morning”. So the drunk woman finally wanders out and I get up to the counter … check-out chick says “clearly the first two hours with the family were more than she could deal with”.
(2) Cooking starts – nothing dramatic, just a leek and potatoe soup with a few little twists along the way. I feel a little numb around the edges since I have been working a little on the hard side this last few weeks. So I head back downstairs for a wee coffee to try and kick start things into a better space.
(3) Note to self – don’t put too much salt in the leek and potatoe soup. Headed back downstairs to get more leeks for a second non-salted batch to water down the first. Soup tastes perfect now – porchini mushrooms have been turned into a powder, the pint of cream is ready (just so long as they don’t see me pouring it in their consciences will be just fine – yeah you know, just in the same way that the vegetarians think this is such an amazingly flavoured Vegetable Soup, even though it has 10 cups of chicken stock in it – haha go figure). The hard work is done, so time for a wee drop of champagne (yes Timmy it is the one we had at the Champagne wine tasting a couple of Christmas’s
(4) Ok, it takes a while to polish of a bottle of champagne by yourself lol, I am running late to Thanksgiving dinner, but never fear, I am not too bother because I am a little pissed. Manage to remember to take all of the additional ingredients that are needed to make this soup wonderful: porchini mushrooms, cream, truffle oil, chives. Dinner was fantastic, it took me two days to recover from so much turkey, sweet potatoes, Yorkshire pudding (lol yes this was a ring-in from the English visitor – well I thought they were just perfect to be honest – ain’t had a homemade Yorkshire pudding for years)
So that in a nut-shell was Thanksgiving. Now I just need to deal with the new temperates that have been around 2C the last few days. Winter is on its way.
