This year, however, I'm away from my family and my home-friends, and here in Korea with my new friends. The plan, at the moment, is for us to simply eat out on the US Thanksgiving Day. That is okay. I'll probably do it. However! On the Thanksgiving Day weekend, I have decided to make a mini-feast for a few of my Korean friends. I'm not going to invite my foreign friends ... ie, when and if they find out, they will kill me. But I can only fit so many people in my tiny apartment, so I'll just have to feast with the rest at a later time. Since Thanksgiving is only two months away (haha) I've of course started planning my menu. The turkey is going to be hard to acquire - I might have to special order it somehow. Complications. Here is my menu, without any thought as to whether or not certain things will be hard or difficult to find in Korea. Suggestions welcome~!
- Turkey - I'm not going to stuff it. That's physically impossible, given the dimensions of a turkey and the oven that I will (soon) have. I'll have to cook the parts separately.
- Cranberry sauce
- Stuffing (cooked separately)
- Mashed potatoes (regular)
- Biscuits
- Cornbread
- Apple butter
- Corn pudding (Thanksgiving is all about corn, after all)
- Sweet baked squash (maple syrup, brown sugar, pecans)
- Collard Greens (spicy with bacon)
- Jello Salad (I've never made this, but if I'm showing Koreans Thanksgiving, I feel like I need at least one '70s dish)
- Soup - I'm thinking cold carrot coconut w/ cumin and ginger, but I might change my mind
- Dessert:
- Apple pie or peach cobbler (with vanilla ice cream?)
Do you realize how much sugar is in this menu? Holy crap. American Thanksgiving is so sweet. But soooo good. I think my Korean friends will like the food, but will overeat and feel terrible. I'll have to warn them.
