As you all know, last Thursday was Thanksgiving. Of course, the French don't much care about American holidays, and so the kids all had school anyway. (I suppose we could have kept them home, but that seemed a bit like overkill.) So Thursday night we had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner of Asian noodle salad with shrimp and pan browned brussels sprouts. Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that I've gone off my rocker, because as everyone knows, that isn't traditional Thanksgiving fare at all. Of course, it's also not traditional to send your kids off to school on Thanksgiving.
We actually did have a Thanksgivingish sort of dinner on Saturday, when the kids didn't have school. I did need to make a few modifications to our traditional spread, however.
1) Whole turkeys are something like 14€ a kilo, which works out to something like $9.60 a pound. Besides, we'd never be able to fit one in our oven, so I roasted a chicken instead.
2) The only cranberry-like food to be found in Fontenay was Ocean Spray cranberry juice cocktail. No fresh cranberry and orange relish for us.
3) Durkee French Fried onions and Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup? (OK, I didn't look for those, but I'm sure I wouldn't be able to find them. The green beans wouldn't have been a problem.)
4) The stuffing recipe, though delicious, could feed an entire nation for a month, so I found something a bit lighter.
5) And we replaced both the pumpkin pie and sweet potato casserole with sweet potato flan.
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