2020年11月20日
Preparing for Thanksgiving
[American] Thanksgiving is coming next week on 26 November. It's time for me to start getting some things ready. Every time I go to the store, I know I've forgotten something, so if I start to prepare now, eventually I will have everything. This Thanksgiving will be different for 3 reasons:
1. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we won't have guests or travel to visit relatives, so it will be a smaller gathering than usual.
2. I have metabolic syndrome. My doctor tells me to not eat carbohydrates, so a lot of traditional American Thanksgiving foods, like breads, potatoes, and pie are off the menu. (Idiom: "off the menu" = not an available option.)
3. We moved to Maryland in March, so this is our first Thanksgiving in our new home. Maryland is famous for some local traditional foods, so we want to include some of the foods from our new home.
The main dish is traditionally turkey and stuffing. Turkey stuffing is typically bread, onion, celery, and broth. This is where we can get creative. Maryland is famous for Chesapeake Bay blue crabs and Old Bay seasoning, and we can put those in the stuffing.
My mother's family is from the northeast USA, and we are actually descendants of the original Mayflower Puritans. Our family has always made different cranberry salads for Thanksgiving.
What are your important family recipes?
Thanks for reading!
1. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we won't have guests or travel to visit relatives, so it will be a smaller gathering than usual.
2. I have metabolic syndrome. My doctor tells me to not eat carbohydrates, so a lot of traditional American Thanksgiving foods, like breads, potatoes, and pie are off the menu. (Idiom: "off the menu" = not an available option.)
3. We moved to Maryland in March, so this is our first Thanksgiving in our new home. Maryland is famous for some local traditional foods, so we want to include some of the foods from our new home.
The main dish is traditionally turkey and stuffing. Turkey stuffing is typically bread, onion, celery, and broth. This is where we can get creative. Maryland is famous for Chesapeake Bay blue crabs and Old Bay seasoning, and we can put those in the stuffing.
My mother's family is from the northeast USA, and we are actually descendants of the original Mayflower Puritans. Our family has always made different cranberry salads for Thanksgiving.
What are your important family recipes?
Thanks for reading!
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