Menu:Apéritif (wine)
Various entrées- wide choice, suitable for all
Canard à l¹orange or vegetarian option (canard=duck)
Tarte aux pommes et glace vanille (apple tart w/ ice cream)
Wine
coffee
...not the traditional thanksgiving meal right? Nope. Well this was the menu for our CSU group dinner that we had at a nearby restaurant. Don’t get me wrong it was very nice and great to be able to have dinner with everyone from the group but it just didn’t feel like thanksgiving so of course we improvised. Jenea and Christa (two of the biggest fans of thanksgiving ever!) decided to have there own thanksgiving dinner at their house. The wanted to invite people from our classes, who come from all over the world, to have their first thanksgiving with us. We were all to bring a dish to share (family, I brought the mashed potatoes which were a hit even though I had to chance the recipe a bit because they don’t have everything here) It was an amazing experience we had French, Swiss, Chinese, Vietnamese and Americans all celebrating together. The of course had no idea what thanksgiving was all about so we did our best to explain it to them and then just told them that they basically just have to eat so much that their stomachs wouldn’t even be able to fit any more food. It was so funny to watch everyone eat the Americans we SO happy to have a full hearty meal while some of the others like the French were to slow to catch on to how much eating we would be doing because they are so used to small meals a little at a time and we just had plates piled full of food. It was great to have as close to a traditional dinner as we could and be with what is my family here. After we were done eating we decided to play charades…which was hilarious because not everyone spoke English well.
It was a fun night with TONS of food and great company…but it will be nice to have a real thanksgiving back in the
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