Thanksgiving

There was no turkey. I'll put that out there right now! Seeing as I don't eat land meat cooking a whole turkey for one would have been a little ridiculous. We still had sooo much food though. The day started with a nice lie in and a trip to the gym (I'm still sore from bench presses). Then the cooking fest began.

trying to get into the northeast thanksgiving spirit we started with steamed clams in a white wine sauce with fresh french bread. This was my first time for clams that weren't in a sauce with linguine and they turned out really good but extremely filling.

The main course was where things got a little different. I had planned on making duck for Matt and tuna steak for me, but the local butcher didn't have any duck. I searched the Meat House (yes I went to somewhere called the Meat House) and found kangaroo steak. Marsupial it would be! We each had our steak with a pomegranate apple sauce, green and white asparagus, rainbow chard and mashed sweet potatoes with goats cheese. The tuna and sauce was delicious and the kangaroo got good reviews too. Why not try it if you can find it?!

It might not look like a lot of food, but we were stuffed and still had lots left over - in fact there are still mashed sweet potatoes in the fridge. We didn't even make the desert we had planned. That will be tonight hopefully.

On Saturday we braved the 60F and sunny weather to get a Christmas tree. Yes, I know it isn't (quite) December yet but firstly, everyone seems to get one the weekend after Thanksgiving and secondly, what with going to England at Christmas we wanted plenty of time to enjoy our tree! After considerable debate about size and type of tree we settled on a 6ft Fraser fir, which fit perfectly into my little car.

All the tree toppers we found just didn't cut it so we ended up with a peacock on top of our tree! The cat is enjoying the tree perhaps more than us, it is just so delicious and all that shiny tinsel and those baubles are perfect play size.

Now just to finish the Christmas shopping.