International Thanksgiving

So even though I did miss out on the 8 hour car drive, family stories, black friday and getting a long weekend for Thanksgiving festivities, I did end up celebrating Thanksgiving with the other exchange students. Having never prepared a Thanksgiving, I must say just saying what type of foods you want at the dinner is exciting and 100% guarantee that half the foods you talk about having at Thanksgiving will not be there. Anyway, my two fellow american exchange students made our list of what we were making and then had other people say what they were planning on bringing. Many of which ended up saying they could not bring the dish because Chile does not have their specific items for that dish. Anyway, my friends and I were making the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and green beans since they were the biggest, most necessary for Thanksgiving and since the dinner was going to be held in my house it made the most sense to prepare everything there. We prepared the mashed potatoes and green beans Wednesday night and the turkey Thursday. The turn out was great there were many exchange students about 20ish. Everyone had a great time and we had many dishes from other countries including New Zealand and Australia. All the food turned out great for all of it being prepared by amateur cooks. We got the recipes from our families at home and foodnetwork.com which turned out to be very handy. Even though we did not have measuring cups and all the various seasonings we have in the US everything turned out to be very tasty. The hardest part was "cut" the turkey...it turned out beautiful but when the time came to carve it no one knew how to do it.

preparation for stuffing.

exchange students who are staying in Santiago. the turkey.