Ok, It is currently 1am in the morning here in Lyon, France and I am busily preparing for tomorrow's feast and wondering what the fuck I was thinking when I started this project? I have nearly 40 guests coming to a flat in the Hotel de Ville and I am getting a little nervous that something is going to go wrong. I have already prepared around:
50-60 cookies
5(7) apple pies (1 that slipped and landed on the counter and was thus used as a taster and grub for Isabelle, Arno, and Richard, and 1 that was given to my roommate after the cake she prepared for the party was not up-to-par)
5 pumpkin pies ( of which I must say that I am very proud because I have never attempted pumpkin pie from scratch and it was also not from a can, fresh lyonnais pumpkin)
3 giant pans of macaroni and cheese
3 giant pans of pommes de terres au gratin
2kg (4.4 pounds for you Americans) of candied almonds
another 2.5 batches of cookie dough to make tomorrow
I am going to make:
Sweet potato soup
Brussel sprouts with pancetta, white wine, butter, and garlic
Garlic and dijon mustard mashed potatoes
2- 5kg Turkeys ( that took me three days and 4 butchers to find )
1- 4kg fully cooked ham ( going to rub down with mustard, garlic, and honey when I warm it up
2kg haricots verts ( those are the lovely skinny french green beans )
chestnut, apple, and sausage stuffing for the turkey
I think that is about it and the guests will be arriving at 4:00pm in the afternoon and I am hoping that I will begin serving around 6 or 7. That is the game plan anyway, we'll see... I definitely tried not to go overboard with too many new things. Just using some classic American table items to give the International students an idea of a true American Thanksgiving. I will elt you all know how it turns out. I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
-a la prochaine!
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