Thanksgiving in the Basque Country

This weekend our Txat Project hosted a weekend in english at a farm house. The theme for the weekend was "Giving Thanks". We had a semi-traditional meal with a brief history of thanksgiving and all of the Americans that were there with us shared with our Basque friends our individual thanksgiving traditions. Our Basque friends are very into differences in cultures so they were very open to trying to new foods and hearing about our family traditions. I think they were amazed at the amount of food and the number of desserts. We also used the leftovers today for lunch and shared with them about how we eat the left overs for DAYS and some of the creative things that people do with the meat. I think they appreciated that we didn't waste what they perceive as an unnecessary amount of food. I think that the weekend was a success and that our Basque friends Ana, JoseMari, Miguel, Ainoah, Asier, Maider, Josetxo and Corro had a great time improving their english and getting a taste of all the good food we have to offer at Thanksgiving. Thanks to our friends at Keller BC in Texas for coming to help and bringing some special items so that we could have some of our favorites this Thanksgiving.

This is what we ate (some substitutions were made b/c of what is available:

Roasted Chicken, Baked Ham, Cornbread Dressing, Green Bean Roll Ups, Macaroni & Cheese, Creamed Spinach, Roasted Broccoli & Cauliflower, Rolls with honey butter, cranberry sauce, Carrot Cake, Pumpkin Cheesecake, and Chocolate Pecan Pie

Happy Thanksgiving!