Showing posts with label Canadian Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canadian Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Monday, October 12, 2009

Canadian Thanksgiving pt. 2...


We are so thankful for our family, and all that the Lord has blessed us with this year. Spencer's job is one of our biggest praises, as well as God's provision for our family since we moved out here. Though things might not have happened as speedily as we had wanted them to happen, our sovereign God had an even better plan in His own perfect timing. Praise God that He has our best in mind!


This is one of the pictures of the fries and the winter vegetables before I put them in the oven. The fries are in a ziplock bag, so that they can get evenly coated with olive oil, salt and pepper. The winter vegetables are just cubed carrots, butternut squash, and sweet potatoes with salt, pepper and about 3 tablespoons of olive oil.

The ladies were in the kitchen cooking, while the men were playing Boom Blocks on the Wii.


Since it had snowed earlier that morning, our nephew also got to go play outside in the snow for a bit before dinner.

Over all it was a very nice Thanksgiving.
The poutine was a nice compliment to the chickens as well as the yummy green bean casserole and winter vegetables. I ended up forgetting to make the stuffing, but we were ok with out it. Since we did chickens instead of turkey our left overs only lasted us until Sunday afternoon. I was able to make chicken broth from the bones, and now stored in the freezer in 1 and 2 cup bags portions for when I need them.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Early Canadian Thanksgiving and First Snow Fall of 2009...



This morning I woke up and noticed a bit of a white reflection coming from outside the bathroom window. After further investigation I quickly ran back to our bedroom to wake up my husband... "Honey.....(nudge).... honey.... (nudge, nudge) .... there's SNOW outside!!!"

















Here's my nephew, he was looking out at the snow as I was snapping a few pictures. He really wanted to go play in the snow when he woke up this morning.



Today we are celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving (which is actually on Monday).... I can't wait to try all the yummy foods! I'm trying the Alton Brown way of cooking the turkey (or in our case chicken, since I couldn't find any turkeys)... where you soak the turkey in a brine over night. It should be interesting. Instead of mashed potatoes this year we are going to try poutine (with shredded mozzarella cheese instead of cheese curds). My sister-in-law is bringing a traditional green bean casserole and then for dessert we are having one of two pumpkin cheesecakes I made... (one pumpkin-banana with a graham cracker crust, the other is a pumpkin with a ginger snap crust). YUM!

Happy early Canadian Thanksgiving and first snow fall everyone!