Sneak peek!

Tonight is THE night for us to get everything done before Thanksgiving -- all of the cleaning and the shopping. How exciting, right? I love playing hostess, it is 'my thing'. We're doing something a little different this year by going to Hot Springs on Black Friday to avoid, well, everything. Too, I'd like to treat my stepmother to dinner @ Rolando's for her birthday.

Last night, I decided to play test kitchen and try my hand at making egg rolls. I've been given the task to make them for Keiko's baby shower which is this Saturday & I wanted to give myself time to fail, fail again, and fail yet again before serving them to real life humans. I actually hit the nail on the head on the first try; they are really tasty! They are poorly constructed (READ: ugly). In fact, the next one is uglier than the last! But, they are YUMG. I borrowed from the Vietnamese, the Chinese & the Japanese -- cabbage, carrots, shrimp, green onions, soy sauce, fresh ginger, tofu, mung bean sprouts, glass noodles, sesame oil, etc. It was so hard to limit ourselves to just a couple "samples". I think I'll wait to take photos after I fry them up.


Hot Dog!



Thanksgiving sneak preview...brussels sprouts!

My sous chef:


Mum brought our ferns back -- they've been kickin' it in her greenhouse. Anyway, this guy came with:

He is currently loose in the house somewhere. Probably on my toothbrush or something.

Sprucing up the joint for the holiday:


This is the most put together our house has been since we've moved in:

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!