On Thursday I celebrated American Thanksgiving with Sarah and Anthony Nicalo and their family and friends. It was a great day of eating, drinking and laughing.
The day started with a shopping trip to Granville Island to meet up with Boris and Evan. Coffee. Bagels. Goodies.
We arrived at Sarah and Anthony’s just in time for sausage making.
Boris got down to work on his dinner contribution.
I got down to lunch.
In the meantime, Anthony carried on with the sausage making.
Aside from being skilled at eating, I’m also pretty good at taking the juicy bits out of pomegranates. James was reassigned.
Jeff was our mash potato guy.
The afternoon prep kept us all hard at work.
Evan took over making the sausages. Little did he know, this was a 5 hour task. Hello Zen moment.
One of the first signs of dinner was the squash soup, served in a pumpkin. Amazing! And that’s where those beautiful pomegranate bits made an appearance.
The other hands-down, tastiest dish was this turkey rillette. Turkey, pistachio, cranberry yumminess.
Boris’ dish was also very good, especially with the salty yam chips on top.
Rachel added the finishing touches to the potatoes. Cream baby!
Now for the climax of dinner shots.
Grilled salmon.
Turkey sausage.
Veggies.
Dinner 1. (Yes, there was dinner 2.)
Christine & James.
Rachel, Sarah, Anthony, Boris.
Overflow eating.
Between dinner 1 and dinner 2 was the intermezzo. Candied salmon and olive oil gelato.
Post dinner there was more drinking and storytelling.
Rachael & Boris.
And, of course, dessert. Here are 2 of the 5 desserts on offer.
The evening ended with the taking of pictures …
and the drinking of oil olive.
One of the best Thanksgivings I’ve ever celebrated. Thank you Sarah, Anthony and the artisan farmers who produced the amazing naturally farmed, handcrafted wines that we drank.