Thanksgiving, Graz Style

For those of you following my blog, you will know that last weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving. We didn’t have a celebration cause the timing was a little weird for some people and also we were still trying to find everything that we needed in order to make a “Typical Canadian Thanksgiving Dinner”, the first thing being an oven. Luckily for us there is this wonderful invention called the internet and we were able to find out how to turn out microwave into a microwave oven! So first things first, cook the pumpkin. They make the most wonderful dressing here out of pumpkin seeds (I’m sure I’ve mentioned it) but finding the real thing can be a bit of a pain. Luckily for us the local market had some and we made our own pumpkin puree (with the help of E and P’s food processor, Thank you!). The rest of the day was mostly spent cooking, chopping, slicing and tasting (you can’t forget to taste) all of the food that we were making. N came over to give us a hand and R and C from downstairs let us use their ‘oven’ and also were out official pumpkin pie tasters (although they said it was hard having the first pumpkin pie in their fridge the whole afternoon, we made two).
Everyone showed up, and brought something to the party, from salads to appetizers to drinks, and we all headed upstairs for a wonderful meal and lots of good conversation. (Apparently (inserts cool nickname here, I am still looking) and I do say aboot instead of about!) Teddy got in on the pumpkin pie action, and E and P brought apple strudel (cause there was no way I was making an apple pie in the land of amazing strudels!) All together there were fifteen of us and it was a great success, R and C want all of our recipes for American Thanksgiving! We had fortunately found this wonderful room upstairs with lots and lots of tables, not so many chairs but we worked that one out!  We sat around the table and talked until one in the morning (luckily I’d had a nap) and it just flew by, like time always does at Thanksgiving. Teddy’s still asleep and I’m typing this up and probably going back to sleep. Overall and awesome Thanksgiving!

Tiny

The Pumpkin Puree (When we made the first
pie I almost forgot to add the sugar!)

Everyone around the table

Luckily I didn't forget the sugar
and here's the final result!
Teddy really liked it!

The Second pie, ready to be eaten!