It's a Wrap!

Yes.  

The menu is set.  

Now begins the hours of cooking.  I went to the grocery store today.  My husband would have been horrified by the gobs of people there.  

I, on the other hand was completely  delighted!  I love to peek into people's baskets and get a glimpse of what they will be preparing for their Thanksgiving feast.  I love to catch "snippets" of their conversations about this and that in their daily lives.  

There is such a holiday feeling in the air.  It's wonderful!  

Well...to me.

Because this huge southern metropolis is sooooo amazingly multi-cultural, I have to chuckle at the complete turnover of the grocery store center display areas and how this must befuddle 

our multicultural population.  Foreigners to our traditional Thanksgiving feast must be bewildered by the food items that proudly pronounce themselves right in the middle of so many of the aisles.

What must these crazy Americans be eating??  Evaporated milk towers stand proudly in the center, marshmallows in snowman shapes, cans of pumpkin puree, bags of dried up bits of bread...  

Really!  

Think about it.  

If you weren't familiar with the traditional dishes, what would one come up with based on these diverse ingredients now dominating the aisles and display areas. 

I remember when we lived in Japan this would happen there. All of a sudden, certain items would appear ready for excited customers (who obviously knew what the ingredients were for, unlike our bewildered selves).  We marveled at the ingredients, trying to conjure up some Japanese type of dish from our limited Asian food library.  

I did buy a couple of Japanese cookbooks that gave us some insight.  One was called something like The Expats Food Survival Guide or something like that.  It was most helpful.

Anyway, I can't help but look at the 

befuddled array of miscellaneous ingredients and wonder what the multitudes of Asians, Indians, and Middle Easterners of this Sugarland suburb think lands on our Thanksgiving tables.

So, what will the Kenney family be having for their very quiet Thanksiving dinner?

Well......:

Roasted Pork Loin stuffed with Plums and Apricots

Apricot/Plum creamy port sauce on the side

Roasted Brussel Sprouts in olive oil and sea salt

Bacon and Thyme Potatoes Au Gratin

Panettone Stuffing (if my sanity permits after fixing the other dishes...)

Apple Crumb Pie with peppermint ice cream

All I can say,is it will take the length of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas to burn off this meal!

P.S.  

We should be grateful not for the actual Thanksgiving meal in the 1700's but for the distortion of Thanksgiving from the actual historical accounting of this now beloved holiday.  

This afternoon, Riley and I began yet another documentary on U.S. History (The Story of Us...wonderful pick on Netflix!) 

and well, ya know, we weren't really nice with our Indian friends and all that. 

Survival of the fittest was at its peak.  

The actual history lesson isn't to have been thankful for their neighborly help surviving the brutal winter in Plymouth all of those years ago. The actual thanks is our never ending ability to recreate history to benefit our modern day tummys.  

Ha!  

Dark humor...