Thanksgiving in Berlin: What We Put On Our Plates
Raise your hand if you’re drooling over the thought of tasty Thanksgiving food.
One… two… three… (Martin! You can only hold up one hand. Put that other one down.) I guess we can’t help it. Thanksgiving makes us giddy. Things were a little crowded. I think we had ten people squished into our 250 square-foot living room/kitchen. The table filled the entire room. Martin sat on the step stool, and I’m not exactly sure what it was I was sitting on. We barely noticed with these cool made-from-scratch yummies:
Green Bean Casserole is like THE American staple. How lucky that a German/American couple put together this recipe for us – and with no cream of mushroom soup. Amazing.
Fresh Broccoli Salad via Alton Brown on the Food Network because let’s face it – when else have you found a broccoli salad that tasted so good you found yourself sneaking to the fridge for more at 10 pm?
Sesame Seed Cookies that made us want to munch and munch even when we’d had WAY too much to eat already. (Sneaky me – no one knew how easy they were)
Sweet Potato Pie that makes you moan. This southern food has now become a Katie and Martin food. Our dear friends Katie and Martin brought it, and we consumed obediently. Then we snagged another piece. We LOVE it, and if you’re wondering why the local grocery store is out of sweet potatoes all of a sudden, well… we had nothing to do with that. Swear.
And Cranberry Sauce. Can’t forget the cranberry sauce.
Here’s a shot my father-in-law took. Thankfully, my plate didn’t make it to the table yet (otherwise I might not be sharing this picture!)
So good luck with all of the tastiness at your house. May Thanksgiving be filled with blessings, great people, and good food.
Keep it green and simple with 2 more ideas:
The True Meaning of Thanksgiving… Gone Vegetarian?
Ditch the Can of Cranberry Sauce and Go Homemade
Eat Local for Thanksgiving
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November 27th, 2008 at 4:37 am
BOTH HANDS ARE UP! :-)
Urging Tom to thaw faster every time I open the fridge. At the moment, the oven is preheating as I prepare to go and make a couple pumpkin pies.
Sounds like a good time at your place. Blessings for you and yours right back atcha.
November 27th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Looks like it went perfectly! Happy Thanksgiving!!
November 27th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I came across your blog a few weeks ago i put into my favorites. I just wanted to say Thanksgiving to another American living in Germany. Actually we are here with the Air Force. Our guests just left my home we had a fantastic Thanksgiving meal. But it’s all about the company in my opinion. My stove is probably about as big as yours so we fried our turkey outside. I have a turkey fryer that doesn’t use oil. It’s a gas turkey fryer. Love that thing! Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I’m glad that you had such a wonderful Berlin Thanksgiving. I look forward to trying the sweet potato pie! Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Oh, I am groaning from all the food I just stuffed in!…..It looks like you had a great Thanksgiving meal, too!
November 28th, 2008 at 9:34 am
I am so glad you stopped and left a comment, you are welcome anytime. It looks like a good meal and most important thing is to be with people that matter to us.
Enjoy the holiday and have a wonderful weekend. Suzy
November 28th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Hello Katie! I’m not sure how you found out that I subscribed to your blog but I’m glad that you came over and visited mine! I was reading through some of your posts and you seem like the type of person (and blog) that I would like to know. I am also (pseudo) vegetarian… have lived abroad… and use re-usable material gift bags with my family!
November 29th, 2008 at 12:25 am
What a novel idea….no turkey. I kinda like that. Just all side dishs…..I could very well make a meal on stuffing alone. Glad your party went so well, it looked terrific…Now, what’s your plan for Christmas? How do you fit the tree and the table?
November 29th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I love the smell of the turkey baking, I love the gravy, I love the stuffing, but when it comes to dishing up my plate on Thanksgiving day, I almost never take the turkey. I take all the side dishes and love it.
But the day after Thanksgiving, and all the days following, as long as we have left overs, I LOVE the turkey soup with fresh homemade noodles, and the sandwiches made with turkey and gravy.
yum
~a