Sunday, November 25, 2007

Thanksgiving Dinner

We had 18 people altogether celebrating Thanksgiving and grandma's 80th birthday! It was a hectic but rewarding and fun day!

Our guests giving us a hand in the kitchen.














The essential part of any traditional Thanksgiving meal - tea leaf eggs :) DELICIOUS!














My first attempt at mashed potatoes, it was actually pretty decent!














Chinese chicken salad, yes, I know, it's not a traditional Thanksgiving dish, but hey, we ARE Chinese














Aunt Mary's string beans with pine nuts, yum!














The whole wheat rolls that I dropped while putting them into the oven, oops!














The turkey turned out AWESOME, go Aunt Mary! Hmm, perhaps we should have gotten a close-up picture before the carving took place ....














My first time making stuffing. Thank you, Stove Top!














The adults table














The 'kids' table














Celebrating nie-nie's birthday!














The flowers that the Chen family kids gave nie-nie!


















Aunt Mary and Aunt Mindy


















I find this amusing. I'm usually the one with the camera (besides Uncle Peter), so at these gatherings, I would at some point go around and just take pictures of people chatting or eating or whatever. Then one person who notices that I'm not in any of the pictures will kindly offer to take a picture of me. But I wasn't actually doing anything, except taking pictures. And I'm not standing near anyone. So the end result? I grab whatever is in front of me to 'pose' with me so I don't look like an idiot just standing there. So now I look like an idiot standing with flowers in front of me.

1 comment:

Jaly said...

Why is Aunt Mary sitting at the kid's table?