I Like Some Turkey in a Big Brown Shoe

My parents had turkey dinner on Saturday since they are going to visit Jules on Thursday. Mmm...turkey. And this time, mom didn't cook it till it was as dry as sand. She must be getting more practice. I'm always in charge of the mashed potatoes, and then I bring it over and everything else is done.

Mom likes to make other stuff too. Like eggrolls and rice soup and deer stir fry. It's all good, the only thing is making room in my stomach to eat all of it.

All the relatives still treat Joe as a novelty. They think it's fun to tell him to 'try it', referring to any and all foreign foods that he may have not eaten before. But he's a brave guy and will try anything, much to everyone's delight. This time it was organs and shrimp paste. He refused the liver but tried the heart, dipped in the shrimp paste sauce. The stuff is super smelly and pungent, but it does taste pretty good with certain foods. I also gave him some durian fruit, which he had a few bites of and regretted later that evening. He kept burping durian fruit, and that's never something you want to relive after you've eaten.

So those are the crazy things that we have at Thanksgiving. Do you have any wacky foodstuffs at your family table?