Korean Thanksgiving, hold the kimchi (photos!)
Friday night, as mentioned, was my version of Thanksgiving. After a week of planning, shopping and cooking, I had 8 friends (Kate, Lindsay, Lee, Vicky, Mark Teacher, Michelle, Hazel and Ryan) over to my house for the following menu:
Apple Walnut Stuffing
Linda Dunn-Landolfi's Internationally Reknowned Sweet Potatoes with a Pecan and Brown Sugar Topping
The Ultimate Mashed Potatoes
Alexis' Proper Italian Mama Salad (homemade roasted red peppers marinated in EVOO, garlic and oregano, homemade spicy roasted olives in a tangerine, garlic, chili and EVOO sauce, and fresh totally expensive mozzarella over mixed greens)
...with candied orange peels dipped in chocolate served for dessert, along with Mark Teacher's ice cream cake gift.
My cooking was praised wholeheartedly, and I would like to point out that all of this was done on two burners, six inches of counter space and a portable toaster oven which could handle one small round (smaller than a pie tin) baking dish at a time. Somehow, though, it all came out well and everyone is asking for another 'family' dinner (NJ: Sunday Night Dinners are moving to SK!) . Plus, I had not a single leftover!!
It's quite challenging to plan a dinner party here. For this event, I needed Kate's plates, Lee's bowls, extra silverware and new wine glasses. None of our apartments have more than 3 or 4 of anything, and we all walk/cab/motorbike everywhere, making transport of breakable things a tactical nightmare. Also, as you saw from my photos, the apartments are itty bitty. Luckily, Lee came over and helped me disassemble my bed and prop it against the wall, giving us space to have a nice dining area in my room, on a piece of the bed frame that was a perfect Korean table. A few $1 candles, a string of white lights, 13 bottles of wine and some soft music and we had a Thanksgiving feast!
The plan had been to hit a local jazz bar after eating dinner, but we were all having such a good time hanging out at my place that we never made it out. Thanks to great friends and creative cooking, my Korean Thanksgiving far exceeded my expectations. Now I can focus on planning the Foreigners' Formal Christmas Feast and the New Year's cocktail party :) There's always something in the works.
Hope you Westerners had an enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday as well - I missed my Stateside traditions, but my Friday night Korean Thanksgiving certainly did its job.
Loves!
Here's some photos Hazel took at the dinner:
http://887420160.slide.com/p/3/Amazing+food?view=True
Apple Walnut Stuffing
Linda Dunn-Landolfi's Internationally Reknowned Sweet Potatoes with a Pecan and Brown Sugar Topping
The Ultimate Mashed Potatoes
Alexis' Proper Italian Mama Salad (homemade roasted red peppers marinated in EVOO, garlic and oregano, homemade spicy roasted olives in a tangerine, garlic, chili and EVOO sauce, and fresh totally expensive mozzarella over mixed greens)
...with candied orange peels dipped in chocolate served for dessert, along with Mark Teacher's ice cream cake gift.
My cooking was praised wholeheartedly, and I would like to point out that all of this was done on two burners, six inches of counter space and a portable toaster oven which could handle one small round (smaller than a pie tin) baking dish at a time. Somehow, though, it all came out well and everyone is asking for another 'family' dinner (NJ: Sunday Night Dinners are moving to SK!) . Plus, I had not a single leftover!!
It's quite challenging to plan a dinner party here. For this event, I needed Kate's plates, Lee's bowls, extra silverware and new wine glasses. None of our apartments have more than 3 or 4 of anything, and we all walk/cab/motorbike everywhere, making transport of breakable things a tactical nightmare. Also, as you saw from my photos, the apartments are itty bitty. Luckily, Lee came over and helped me disassemble my bed and prop it against the wall, giving us space to have a nice dining area in my room, on a piece of the bed frame that was a perfect Korean table. A few $1 candles, a string of white lights, 13 bottles of wine and some soft music and we had a Thanksgiving feast!
The plan had been to hit a local jazz bar after eating dinner, but we were all having such a good time hanging out at my place that we never made it out. Thanks to great friends and creative cooking, my Korean Thanksgiving far exceeded my expectations. Now I can focus on planning the Foreigners' Formal Christmas Feast and the New Year's cocktail party :) There's always something in the works.
Hope you Westerners had an enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday as well - I missed my Stateside traditions, but my Friday night Korean Thanksgiving certainly did its job.
Loves!
Here's some photos Hazel took at the dinner:
http://887420160.slide.com/p/3/Amazing+food?view=True
posted by pixelpulp at 4:12 AM
3 Comments:
Awww MAN! That sounds like a great time! I wish I was there.
P.S. You know you aren't Italian when you have to google EVOO.
P.P.S. I wan't to try that salad BADLY!
Ok, I didn't google EVOO, please gently tell me what that means.
On the flip side Lexo, Ellyn and I went to South Padre for Thanksgiving to fish and have fun, and that we did. I am thinking I will make that our tradition from now on. If there is a way to post photos from our adventure to show you let me know. I love you.
PaPa
EVOO is Extra Virgin Olive Oil... Rachael Ray uses the EVOO term all the time on her shows on the Food Network. I guess you gotta be a foodie to know it!
x.
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