Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Yesterday I stayed home from school to make thanksgiving dinner (well, really lunch) with my host sister. It was also my host mom's birthday! I got the needed recipes offline, like how to cook turkey and apple pie. We went off to the supermarkets but I had forgotten to translate the ingredients before going! So, we were in the store trying to figure how to say cinnamon, nutmeg, and cheddar cheese in italian. We figured out how to say cinnamon and nutmeg using Silvia's cell phone, but cheddar cheese was much more difficult. So, I was looking through all the cheeses in the store and I saw one with a picture of a hamburger and a piece of
cheese on it and I immediately thought that that must have been the right type of cheese! Also, turkey was so difficult to find. It's impossible to find a whole turkey here in italy so we had to settle for pieces (also it's dark meat). The first store we went to there was no turkey to be found. The second store and the turkey they had was a giant turkey wing. So we had the butcher cut it up because the wing was too big and she was really chopping that turkey wing! I was actually a bit scared and intimidated with her and that huge knife.
Yesterday I stayed home from school to make thanksgiving dinner (well, really lunch) with my host sister. It was also my host mom's birthday! I got the needed recipes offline, like how to cook turkey and apple pie. We went off to the supermarkets but I had forgotten to translate the ingredients before going! So, we were in the store trying to figure how to say cinnamon, nutmeg, and cheddar cheese in italian. We figured out how to say cinnamon and nutmeg using Silvia's cell phone, but cheddar cheese was much more difficult. So, I was looking through all the cheeses in the store and I saw one with a picture of a hamburger and a piece of
cheese on it and I immediately thought that that must have been the right type of cheese! Also, turkey was so difficult to find. It's impossible to find a whole turkey here in italy so we had to settle for pieces (also it's dark meat). The first store we went to there was no turkey to be found. The second store and the turkey they had was a giant turkey wing. So we had the butcher cut it up because the wing was too big and she was really chopping that turkey wing! I was actually a bit scared and intimidated with her and that huge knife. 
After a while of cooking, we had made turkey, mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, gravy, and apple pie. With the turkey I really had no idea what I was doing when I was cooking it. I was also too grossed out to touch the raw meant so my sister did. :P The turkey turned out actually pretty nasty, it was very rough and chewy, though it did at least taste like normal turkey a bit. The mashed potatoes tasted pretty good thankfully and so did the gravy. However, turns out what I picked out was not actually cheddar 
cheese, so the scallowed potatoes were quite strange. And finally, the apple pie was a bit misshapen, but soooooo delicious!! I ate about a quarter of the pie last night, eating apple pie was so wonderful and I'm sure it will be gone by tomorrow thanks to me. :) Hope you all had a good holiday and my thoughts are with you!
