Carnival of Crapulence
Posted on November 23, 2006
It’s Thanksgiving in America. It’s a day on which we give thanks for the blessings of family, friends and food. Technically, Thanksgiving is a holiday. Most of us have the day off work and do little else but eat and sink into a languid stupefaction. For this reason, it is perhaps the most American of all American holidays. The main course of the meal is typically a roasted whole turkey, escorted down the hatch by a vast array of tuber and root-derived vegetables and bread-oriented glop. All in all, it’s a meal high in fat and carbohydrates. Candied sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, bread stuffing… all laden with copious amounts of butter and gravy.
I’m in the midst of cooking the family dinner at this very minute, so I don’t have much time to write, but I’ll do my best to snap some photos and write a bit more after I’ve made the required visits with family and friends.
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So, do you get a repeat performance at Christmas?
Any variations in the menu?
Bok Normandie,
I stayed with simple, traditional, easy-to-digest fare tonight. No surprises other than a lot of fresh, peppery thyme in the bread stuffing. Christmas usually calls for at least one other festive meat course, like a smoked ham baked with sugar and spices. I think I’ll have to make bakalar this year.
Actually, I have a piece of pork loin marinating in mustard and olive brine for pašticada, so I’ll be writing about that soon. I know that pašticada is ordinarily prepared with beef, but beef is really expensive here now. So are sušene smokve.
They celebrate Thanksgiving in Plymouth, England, from what I understand. And, I hear the gin there is unlike any other. How’s the weather in Britain these days?
Na žalost pišem po hrvatski ne tako puno ove dana. Drugi blog trpje. Ima previše za prevodinju, pa još uvijek prepolako idem.
john
Thanksgiving in Plymouth, who knew?! You are right abought the gin, it is superb.
Weatherwise most days are sunny and warm. The same in Croatia. My Mum’s garden in Zadar is in full bloom, would you believe it! Oh the cold, snowy Zagreb of my youth, how I miss thee…
English Christmas dinner is very similar to Thanksgiving dinner in USA. Turkey and all the trimmings. I find it extremely boring, but tradition is taken very seriously in England. We also have the Christmas pudding served with brandy butter, which alone is enough to clog your arteries for life :)
I’ll be in Hrvatska this Christmas, hopefully we’ll have some snow by then.
A question of football: are you following Croatia in EURO 2008 qualifiers?
You better start supporting Hajduk, if you’re ever to live in Split ;)