Dubai Pilgrims

This year was our first Thanksgiving away from our families and also as a married couple, so my husband and I were determined to have our own authentic American Thanksgiving in the ME and to start our own traditions, while keeping the old ones!
We did our celebration on Friday (reminder: the weekend here is Friday & Saturday) and because obviously Thanksgiving is an American holiday so businesses were open on Thursday.  My husband cooked his first turkey - 14 lbs, a brave task, and it was of course perfect and delicious!  This was not without lots of research and an entire day spent cooking and tending to the bird!  I also contributed my cooking skills to making some of the classics, with my own little twists of course!  I am not one to boil some frozen peas and call it a day especially because we invited some of our friends to join in. (We were not going to eat a giant bird alone.) Everyone was really excited, so the expectations were pretty high and we had a lot to live up to! The evening ended up being relatively successful in that everyone enjoyed the food and we had a great time. As Dubai Pilgrims, we hope that the locals (British and French?) enjoyed their Thanksgiving as much as the Native Americans did. (Very pc, I know!)