This year I cooked my first Thanksgiving dinner. (It's a much nicer holiday when someone else does all the work!) I cooked for 11 hours and made: waldorf salad, roasted root vegetables (which are mysteriously different than the ones in the US), mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with marshmellow (had to get some Americana kitsch in there- especially since my sister imported marshmellows for me), brussel sprouts, stuffing, cranberry sauce (also imported- no cranberries here), and of course turkey. Emre's mom was suprised to hear that it's the American man's job to carve the turkey (it's the least he could do!) and Emre did do a great job. Actually, he was in charge of roasting the turkey, which was pretty easy in one of those roasting bags. I also made pumpkin pie, apple pie and rice crispie treats. I was relieved that everything actually came out pretty good.

We celebrated with our dutch friends Helen and Pieter, english friends Pami and Julian, also Eda, Heiko and Emre's mom. This was also the first week I actually started to look pregnant and feel the baby too!