Friendsgiving

One of my favorite neologisms of recent years. I remember when we used to call a gathering of friends for Thanksgiving dinner "Orphans", but that referred strictly to getting together unrelated people who didn't have another place to go on Thanksgiving day. I feel like this idea of friends groups making a second Thanksgiving dinner on a different day is fairly new, even though we've been doing it for several years now. Whatever the reason, it's a fantastic tradition, and I look forward to carrying on with it for many years to come.

I went to our hosts early and helped out from the very beginning, making stuffing and sangria as well as the dishes I had taken on as my responsibility -- gougeres (small cheese puffs), roasted marble potatoes, and pumpkin bread (which I made last night). It all went well and all the food was well received. And as always it was great to hanging out and chat, with friends I see all the time and with friends I only see once or twice a year.

And thus wraps up my holiday dinners for at least the rest of the month. It's a little odd to think that Thanksgiving is over, but there's still almost a full week of November remaining.