Hey catlover....thanks for the good wishes. Yes....I'm afraid Canada's Thanksgiving celebration is very similar to yours, in that it's become a food orgie! The fare differs according to geographical location...but nevertheless, ends up being a costly and overabundant luxury. We ended with a WHOLE lot of left overs, as I wasn't well over the weekend and had to cancel the invites to our dinner....but I still had to cook turkey and all....or it surely would have spoiled!
So tomorrow will salvage the last of the turkey meat and freeze it....I'm getting sick of it!
Also in the spread was a "tourtière" (French Canadian) which is a meat pie with such spices as nutmeg and cloves...garlic also. Mine is made with pork. LOVE it...it's a tradition. Many pastries in French cuisine! Also had a nice "potage" (a soup), this one a clear soup broth with a variety of vegetables, including lettuce as well ass herbs...dill and parsley. Aside from likely turkey...what else did you serve? For dessert...rice pudding!! Had to have something English....for my hubby ;) Your Thanksgiving is on the 25th....St Catherine Day (celebrated in Québec with taffy...this originates in France, and had to do with having a taffy pull...mixed company, as a means of marrying of the old maids, which would have meant being over 25 many centuries ago)...nowadays, it's all about the taffy! My birthday is the following day! Apparently, had I been born on the 25th...my grandmother would have wanted me to be named....Catherine!! (Wouldn't have happened, according to my mother!!)
take care cat....
luv, linda