thanksgiving

we celebrated thanksgiving last weekend. a week plus 3 days late.
whatever. as in whatever it takes to keep our stress level low. work had been crazy so we postponed it.

and it was good dinner.
i managed to make dinner in under 3 hours. i surprised myself.
given that i decided to try out new recipes.

we ate
(a) rosemary-lemon turkey (b) muffin-cups potato gratin (c) lemony roasted brussel sprouts and parsnips (d)sage, mushroom and sausage stuffing.

it feels good to be able to walk out to the balcony and snip off my own herbs to make dinner. must. grow. more. herbs. next. year.

wine's a little too sweet for our liking. then in the evening, christian and i headed out to get 3 slices of velvety pumpkin pie and ben and jerry's vanilla ice-cream. so yummy.

i noticed that christian has a very sophisticated palate.

it's nice that it's been rainy all weekend. feels very much like fall.

holiday season: christmas! chinese new year! lots of exclamation points. but this is the best: vacation in taiwan *exclamation point*