it is a potluck, with everyone bringing a thing that is assigned informally, as part of a balanced meal, so we don’t get like four turkeys and three hams and five things of bread. i make salad, because i’m really good at it, and a veggie, because i’m really good at it. this year it was an arugula mixed green salad with pomegranate arils and goat cheese and caramelized onions and a lemon-orange-pomegranate-vinaigrette and ho-made french bread croutons, and panseared zucchini with panseared onions and a lemon-olive-basil dressing. i think we had ten or eleven people, so the massive amount of food balanced out pretty well.
i want everyone reading this to know that i actually heard, with my own ears, four men sitting around in a room discussing relationships in a sane, rational, mature, and downright fuggin philosophical manner for half a damn hour, this evening.
we played apples to apples, which is the best non-braining post-food and drink game in the history of ever, and i won (i always win, because i am tremendously awesome at similes, i’m sorry), but everyone was having such a good time accusing each other of unspeakable perversity that i withdrew instead so they could keep playing.
also, best day of giving thanks ever. i love all of you, and i hope you are thankful for your awesome lives, and your awesome friends and families, and the delicious plenty of food you eat, and the roof over your head, and the fact that you live in relative harmony, with nobody throwing bombs at your house or hauling your SO off to Sekret Police Questioning never to return, or at least not yet. ^_^ i sure am.
Seriously! OMG so much food hee hee. And hardly a scrap left once everyone fixed a leftover plate to take home with them.
Thank you so much for coming! It was such fun.
PS I have your salad dressing still. You’ll be wanting that.