Chestnut Thanksgiving Dinner ^_^

Somewhere in Oct, me and char were looking through some magazines when she spotted this article with the recipe on how to make roast turkey.. so we decided that we should make our own turkey to celebrate thanksgiving!! :D

fresh grocers, the supermarket near our house had a special offer whereby you can get a free frozen turkey for every $100 that we spend. so we went crazy and just keep grabbing stuffs to put into our shopping cart to make up $100 worth of goods ahaha... deliang just kept throwing candy bars beside the cashier to top up to $100... lol..

the frozen turkey supposedly needed 2 days to thaw completely, but we weren't sure how to, so in the end we just took it out of the freezer 2 days before and thawed it on our kitchen table.. however, at the end of 1.5 days, we woke up to a stinking turkey lol... ok.. so that showed that it was the wrong way to thaw the turkey haha.. and charmaine had to go down to frogo to buy another turkey.. sian.. so much for trying to get a free turkey haha...

our initial idea was for me and char to roast the turkey while adrian baked all the yummy desserts that normally comes along during thanksgiving (or so adrian's boss said hehe~) unfortunately, i was too caught up with work and had so many long project meetings that i hadn't had the time to help out. in the end, it was just charmaine and adrian who made the humongous feast! we had the feast 1 week early on 18 Nov.







pretending that i helped lol..

adrian and charmaine stayed up almost the whole night to prepare all the food. adrian stayed up for the first part of the night.. he just keep bathing the new turkey in water to thaw it while baking a lot of mouth watering cakes!! then charmaine took over in the morning to help make the turkey. all in all.. i think they spent like 24hrs to make ALL the food.. let me show u..


craneberry walnut bread

apple cake, yum yum~~ ^_^

sugar coated cinnamon pecans!!! YUMMY~ :D

left: poppy seed cake (in rectangular pans); right: pumpkin pie~ (in round pans)

ok, let me highlight something.. POPPY SEEDS ARE BANNED IN SINGAPORE!!! muahahaha... so none of u in SG can get to eat this!!!

next thing to highlight..
THIS IS THE BEST CAKE I'VE EATEN IN MY LIFE!!!!
and i seriously mean that.. i really dun like to eat cakes, but this is 1 cake that i simply cannot resist!! dunno how to describe it.. but it's really super duper yummily delicious!!!

ok, let's just pray that i wun get addicted to opium..

ok i admit.. I'M ADDICTED TO THIS POPPY SEED CAKE!!! AHHHHH...


the best turkey i've had~ muahahahaha...

really really the yummiest turkey i've eaten.. the meat is moist, tender and juicy~ and the stuffing is sooooooo delicious~ *salivates~ but then again.. i've only had those i got from cold storage in singapore, so that's really no competition haha..

our dinner feast!! no 1 really seems interested in taking pic lol.. all of us were eyeing to get started with the long awaited meal ahahaha..

let me introduce all the dishes on the table, starting with the 1 deliang is eyeing haha.. that's just all the extra turkey stuffings. we are supposed to make extra stuffings as those that do get in the turkey is too little for all of us. going clockwise, next up is of course the turkey!! ^_^ and the pot of brown stuff is actually the turkey sause, super duper yummy man!! haha.. ok, i'm out of vocab with so many yummy food =X.. next up at the far right is the cranberry sause for the turkey as well haha.. below the sause is the apple cake, then the green pot is spinach salad, then cranberry walnut bread and lastly, the mashed potatoes ^_^

ok fine fine.. proper family thanksgiving pic! :p

all credits to char n adrian ^_^

seriously, if not for charmaine n adrian, the dinner would not have been possible. thank you sooooo much!!! ^_^ of course not to forget, thank you so much to pacey, alicia and kai an for cleaning up the huge mess in the kitchen after the dinner. really appreciate it! :) and thank you law and adrian for scrubbing the black stove haha.. and charmaine for cheering them to scrub it cleaner wahaha..

okiee... now to give thanks.. :)

MUM and bro: thanks for all the love and care that you've showered upon me, giving me all the best that you could, and even trying to give everything else up just to provide the best for me. thank you so much and love you all dearly ^_^

darling alvin: thank you dear for sacrificing so much for me and loving me with all your heart. (gotta stop here or i'll never stop lol..) i love u!! :)

weijia: thanks for sharing 5 great months with us. you really brightened up our house. ^_^

deliang: thanks for organizing all the roadtrips, made all our journeys a memorable experience.

lawrence: thanks for being the great CEO of our house, i'll hire u next time haha.. but thanks for the great advices that you've given me. really appreciate it :)

pacey: although you always like to bully me, i know that it's precisely because you treat me as a real friend that you do that hehe.. n of course, you were always there for me when i needed help. you and adrian are the nicest guys around. when everyone else left me in the lurch, you 2 were always the ones who stayed behind. thank you from the deepest of my heart. and thanks for being always sincere and true, not just to others, but to yourself. they are traits of great people in our society :)

adrian: thank you adrian for always letting me bully u haha.. u're seriously the nicest guy around. thanks for always giving me loads of information in every single conversation we have lol.. u are a true walking wikipedia plus excel spreadsheet lol.. will approach u more for help XD but seriously, thanks for being such a great friend, for always being there for me just like pacey. i'm very proud to have you as my friend ^_^

charmaine: thanks for being my best roommate! you've given me the best taste of what it's like to have someone to shop like crazy with haha.. =X no lar.. thanks for being a great companion, for sharing with me all ur pretty clothes, for standing by my side when the guys bully me.. and actually just simply for treating me as a real friend and trusting to confide in me when you needed help. :)

alicia, estee: thank you for all your great company and great advices!! let's hang out more together! :D

andy, tim and wayne: thank you guys for working so hard for 446. especially andy for treating me so well and always caring so much for ur totally clueless project mate =X hee..

to all my other friends: thank you all for making my life such a great one with your presence ^_^

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!