Thanksgiving Dutch Style! Part 1...

So this year Tess ad I decided that since we were in Holland away from our families this Holiday Season, we would do a Thanksgiving dinner ourselves! Well we invited Both our Host family's to join us... Since it was at Tess' house... haha! Well things went so So SOOO well! We made delicious food! Did not argue a bit and everything came out just right! And as you might have guessed we tooksoem pics.. and since I can't get my photobucket to work... I'm going to just load the pics up to this making it an extra long blog! We started off Saturday running some errands after I arrive in Naarden. And around 3pm we actually were able to start the cooking... We thought it, wisely, best to each take on our own assignments in cooking and not help each other unless needed... I started off making the pie crusts! They turned out quite well if I do say so myself!


Tess and I pretending to fight.. There was actually none of that!
My 3 lovely

Pumpkin pie crusts! Aren't you proud mom!?!


Oh and while I made the crust Tess did the filling for the pumpkin pie! So tasty the most important part of the whole day!~ You go Tess!!!



My one crust that did not turn out so well was the lemon mereign pie... but that was a mess in whole... the dish was a bit deep! It tasted sooooo good though!

The combines efforts worked out so well!

I brought some pre-cut and seasoned apples from our apple tree here in Hoofdorp this fall... And I made the apple pie! It was great I hear!!!


Oh yeah so the Lemon pie... Well Its pan was a bit deep... They don't make pies here like they do in the states... So the families didnt have the pans... An dwe had to borrow some from soem american moms tess knows... So I was in charge or the meraigne. I followed the directions perfectly... Though I must say I think the directions and ingridients were crazy! And it came out auful! And I put it ontop the filling and it sank! But I persevered! When I was done I licked my finger to taste it.. And realised it had no sugar it it!!!!!!!!!! See the ingriedients listed it... But the directions did not... So! We scrapped that recipie and callde up my mom and she gave me her's ! So much better! You saved the day mom!



I made the spinach dip and we called it a night! Oh and Tess made some ultra yummy Cranberry sauce!!! Then we called it a night!



Well We called it a night for cooking! Cause after I made the spiniach dip we decided it was WAY too strong on the veggie soup side... So we rode in the bitter cold to town to get some sour cream to calm it down a bit.. It was a nice choice! After we got back Tess' family was in the living room gathered round the fire place getting ready for bed and for Sinter Klaas to visit in the morning. They were so sweet!




Well so that was just Saturday getting ready for Sunday when the real party was! But I'm getting sleepy... So I'm going to Blog Day 2... Tomorrow! I hope you enjoyed this and stay tuned!!!!!!!