Happy Thanksgiving! I did my best to do Thanksgiving this
week, and most of my ingredients went towards that aim (I don’t normally buy
dates and crushed pineapple).
1.
Mangoes (on sale again yay!)
2.
Walnuts
3.
Dates (for the Thanksgiving cranberry relish)
4.
Celery
5.
Oranges
6.
Croissant (an impulse buy to better endure call
centre work in the morning)
7.
Crushed pineapple (relish)
8.
Baguette (for stuffing)
9.
Ginger beer
10.
Sparking apple juice
11.
Cranberry sauce (couldn’t find fresh/frozen
cranberries so I had to suffer the substitute, since it wouldn’t be
Thanksgiving without cranberries)
12.
Roast chicken (we bought it straight out of the
oven!)
13.
Gravy mix
14.
Carrots
15.
Broccoli
16.
6-pack of mini mince pies (these are absurdly
cheap and I’ll have to be careful not to buy them every week!)
17.
Strawberries
18.
Mini pavlovas (which are like meringues)
19.
Whipped cream (so much yum)
Acquired:
1.
2 eggs (which disappeared after a few days, I
suspect they fell out of my bag and broke, sadly)
2.
Flour
3.
Milk
4.
Butter
5.
Sugar (a bunch of Frenchies left behind all
their crepe materials – it’s hilarious, pretty much every night there’s a
different group of French people making crepes)
6.
Parmesan cheese
7.
Apples (which was awesome because I wanted them
for the cranberry relish anyway)
8.
Raspberry jam
9.
Pasta and sauce mix pack
10.
Cereal
11.
Rice
12.
Peanut butter (from Ting who just left for
Melbourne)
13.
Instant noodle soup (which I will save when I
need to eat in a big hurry)
Seriously good leftovers luck this week, I also scored a
museum pass and an internet pass and some orange and mango juice that I just
drank at the moment.
Thanksgiving was very nice. I started making stuffing (on
the stove) and mashed potatoes and then met up with Kayleigh (the British girl
who was in my first hostel room) and we went to the store to buy the last ingredients,
like gravy mix, roast chicken (no turkeys except the frozen variety), and dessert. The pies and cakes looked weird, and there weren’t any
pumpkin things anyway, so we got mini-pavlovas instead and topped them with
strawberries and cream, which was pretty awesome.
I was sad, though, because my favourite Thanksgiving dish is
this cranberry relish fruit salad thing, and I can’t make it yet because I couldn’t
find cranberries. My mission this upcoming week is to locate some and make the
relish, since I already bought the other ingredients. Still, though, it was a
good feast, and I was thankful that I had a friend to share the food, even if
she did boil the vegetables (carrots and broccoli) in a typical British way
(lol). Check out the spread in the hostel dining room!
Just a few words about how thankful I am to have a chance to
be in a country as ridiculous and awesome as Australia, but to still be able to
contact family and friends from afar. I’ve had a pretty good time so far, but I’m
hoping for some really exciting stuff in the New Year, when I can get out of
the city and explore the rest of the continent (and still revisit QLD, of
course). Thank you for reading about my exploits, and much love to all!
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