Planning our Thanksgiving Dinner

Carlyn and I are currently trying to map out our Thanksgiving dinner. But there are just so many recipes to choose from - so many stuffings, cranberry sauces, and turkey tips arise with every Google search. Luckily at least the mashed potatoes are easy. Pretty near impossible to mess up those! (knock on wood.)

We told our current hosts that we would be happy to bring this bit of Americana to their home. They loved the idea, especially because they thought their kids would find it to be a blast. Thus the idea of an Australian Thanksgiving was born.

We hit our first snag when we learned that canned pumpkin is unheard of down under. So, we're sticking with just apple pie. It feels wrong to leave out such a staple of the Thanksgiving feast, but there aren't even pumpkins available for us to attempt making it from scratch! Other than that, we're planning on hitting all the classics - turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce.

We're drafting up our grocery list now - we'll be sure to let you all know how well it goes. Unless its disastrous, in which case I'll pretend this all never happened :)