Monday, November 25, 2019

Early Thanksgiving 2019


        This year our family Thanksgiving was celebrated on Saturday evening, November 23rd

This table features china from Deruta

As usual, Ricki invited our "family of choice" to her lovely home in San Francisco, and set another one of her spectacular tables. She took photos of her masterpiece in the afternoon after she finished.



         For comparison, I found a photo of my sister-in-law Ricki's exuberant 2013 Thanksgiving table



 The first course--Sande's lovely salad with plums and persimmons


Sande customarily creates a colorful salad with local lettuces from the farmer's market and fresh crab but this year  crab season has been delayed, so she substituted a delicious, late variety of plum 


          Back to the kitchen where a special bread, still wrapped in paper and string, is warming 


The turkey was decorated with thyme, and I seasoned green and yellow Romano beans with sautéed almonds and fresh herbs.



        I snapped some photos in the evening when we were ready to light the candles and call the 
             guests in to dinner




                   
                     And ecologically speaking, this was a zero waste table. We can eat the centerpiece
                      with the leftovers. It's all organic!


Dismantled holiday table decorations ready for roasting

And Compostable


1 comment:

  1. Happy Thanksgiving, and wishing you many more!
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