Start Early.
Gathering ingredients for even the simplest of recipes will undoubtedly take multiple visits to multiple stores, so it’s best to start stock-piling and searching for ingredients at least a month in advance.
Gathering ingredients for even the simplest of recipes will undoubtedly take multiple visits to multiple stores, so it’s best to start stock-piling and searching for ingredients at least a month in advance.
Organize yourself. Just keep the butter, sugar and flour on the counter. You know you’re gonna need it sooner or later.
Make sure you have plenty of chocolate. (Let's face it, this is really just a life lesson, isn't it?)
Stir.
Make your own pumpkin pie spice. Just do it. You know those French people don’t even eat pumpkin pie.
Make something with yeast. Improvise with all your tiny French bowls and your big soup pot. That American-sized bread ain’t gonna fit in that baby bowl.
Watch it grow.
Twice.
Bake it, bake it, bake it. (That's three times!)
Pack it up and find yourself a nice group of friendly Americans (and maybe a few Germans, Brits and French people). Preferably ones who know how to cook.
Squeeze everything onto a big table.
Fill up your plate.
Eat. And eat and eat and eat.
And remember: It’s not really Thanksgiving until you've fallen into a food coma.
What I made: Brownies, Pumpkin Blondies and Dinner rolls.
Group shot and food coma pics by B. Wagner and A. Griffiths, respectively.
Group shot and food coma pics by B. Wagner and A. Griffiths, respectively.
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