Thanksgiving #1

We invited our Frankfurt friends, Petra and Jeremy, over for a Thanksgiving dinner.  This had to happen Friday night, because of course everyone is in school and work on Thursday because they do not celebrate Thanksgiving.  We roasted a chicken (they have turkeys here - but we wanted something smaller), made mashed potatoes with leeks, orange sweet potatoes, salad, and found "preiselbeeren" which are like cranberries but smaller.  (Think lingonberries at IKEA - that's what they are).  I even made a kind-of pumpkin pie with canned pumpkin Sarah smuggled in for me.  You can find pumpkins here, but not canned pumpkin.  So if you want to make a pie, you have to do it the way the Pilgrims did it, and boil it, mash it, etc. (see the entry "Thanksgiving #2 - that is what Dara did to make her pie). So - we had a lovely evening with good food and good friends.  Emma was also there, Petra and Jeremy's pug.