Monday, October 11, 2010

Christy: Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

Tonight was our thanksgiving dinner and I am so incredibly stuffed. My parents are out of the country for two weeks so I didn't go home for thanksgiving but instead had a wonderful meal with my roommate and six of our friends. I was in charge of vegetables-that-are-not-potatoes so I made baked Kabocha squash with some honey and apples and Carrots with a brown sugar glaze. I've been realizing lately that I'm way more excited about cooking than I used to be, in fact I'm starting to read more cooking blogs. They are definitely a foreign but profoundly intriguing world for me.
I know some fashion bloggers read Smitten Kitchen but I was wondering if there are any other must read cooking blogs that I am missing out on. Any Suggestions?
The internet makes sharing recipes so much easier and I love not having to own a cook book to be able to access the recipes in it. Not to say that I'm not a sucker for a beautifully put together cook book with glossy photographs of impossibly beautiful food....

Speaking of beautiful food, take a look at our stunning pumpkin pie we made.

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The secret to its amazingness? fluffing the egg whites before adding them to the filling.
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Another tasty treat we had tonight was an american invention: pretzel jello salad.
Only Americans would put ground up pretzels, cool whip, cream cheese and jello together and have the audacity to call it salad...

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Whatever you classify it as, it tasted surprisingly awesome
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This began as an outfit post but I guess I'm just more interested in food at the moment.
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oops. :)

Hope you guys all had a good weekend, whether or not it was Thanksgiving. Does thanksgiving even exist outside of North America? Maybe that's a very ignorant question but I realize I don't know the answer.

Cheers!

12 comments:

PearlsAndGreenTea said...

Haha...I'm more interested in food sometimes too! These desserts look yumm-o!

Jiye
http://pearlsandgreentea.blogspot.com/

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Charlotte Henderson said...

smitten kitchen is obviously love,

but also http://mennonitegirlscancook.blogspot.com/

mmmmmmenonites

Amelia said...

ohhhh looks delicious! i think i'm going to try to cook thanksgiving dinner here for my host family. and haha you're cute, love the last picture.

Rebecca R said...

Moving out does wonders for cooking skills, does it not??

I find a lot of recipes just browsing through stumble upon. Like the amazing monkey bread I made a little bit ago....

minnja said...

YUMMY

http://minnja.blogspot.com/

Maria Confer said...

Happy Belated Thanksgiving Christy! Oh, those desserts looks so good!! I can't wait for Thanksgiving here.

P.S. Thank you so much for the really kind and supportive comment on my post. I truly appreciate it.

xx
Maria
Lulu Letty

Sanam said...

Hmm..that food looks super tasty :D and to answer your question, im sure some people do celebrate it. but here in the UK it isnt really a national thing :)



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Emma said...

Oh my... craving some of that pumpkin pie! Everything looks so delicious. x

daniela kate morosini said...

mm, that looks tasty! x

Helen said...

i am often more interested in food than fashion! haha. i love the kitchn blog on apartment therapy and sprinkle bakes http://www.sprinklebakes.com/

BenchesnChandeliers said...

that looks so delicious!

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