We all know that Thanksgiving is a huge American tradition, and before things turned a little, well a little topsy turvy, I was hoping to spend the holiday out there and experience everything about it. Unfortunately, that wasn't able to happen so my sister and her best friend planned for us to have our own take on Thanksgiving. We had cute little turkey decorations, and a traditional menu (of course, all gluten free!).
For our main meal we had turkey and pulled pork, with roast potatoes, sweet potato mash, maple covered carrots and parsnips, veggies and gravy. It was all delicious, and I think we really pulled it all off; especially my sisters pulled pork - none of us had ever made or had it before, but on all the cookery programmes and in restaurants it looked amazing, and so my sister took on the challenge and it came out great. The recipe was also really simple, using the slow cooker, and we had leftovers for sandwiches the next day.
Pudding was a slight disaster, to say the least. Pumpkin pies are traditional, but due to them not being Mel suitable, we decided to go for an apple pie, using a package pie crust mix. All we had to do was add the flour mix to oil and water, this part went swimmingly, until we tried to roll out the pastry. Uh oh this wasn't gonna work. We ended up pushing the pastry into the pie tray as best we could. The filling seemed to be the only bit that worked, yummy cooked apples and raisins in a sugary syrup. The pastry topping didn't work either, and we ended up renaming it a jigsaw pie as it really looked so mismatched on top! Surprisingly, when it came out the oven it looked golden and yummy... that was not the case. The pastry had a chemical taste, so we ended up only eating the filling. Never gonna use a package pie crust again.
To save the day we got back on track with a final bite of delicious food, turkey decorated cupcakes. Alison is an amazing baker, and these were no exception, and the decoration was super.
The day really made me feel grateful for the family and friends I have around me, and I couldn't of asked for better people to spend our belated take on Thanksgiving.
