We did the traditional Thanksgiving Day routine yesterday: Family members + turkey, two kinds of potatoes, gravy, pumpkin pies. What was particularly wonderful: Martha cooked the turkey on the outdoor grill, which made it crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.
She added her famous timbales, popovers and cheesecake; and later in the evening, Lisa, Dave, Josh, Max, Elliott R, Ariel and Matt arrived, bringing along even more incredible desserts!
Heinz played the role sommelier and had chosen a particularly wonderful Malbec. Later in the evening he brought out dessert wines and tequila. (Doesn't everyone do tequila with dessert?)
Conversations ranged from politics to global warming to nuclear power plants...and everything in between. You never know what will come up at the family dinner table, but it's always a lively discussion, and we're always friends at the end!
We had a new guest this year -- Tiberius Moran Lopez, a nuclear engineering and
radiological sciences PhD candidate at UM College of Engineering. I met Tiberius when he worked in the College's high school mentoring program a couple of years ago. I brought my camera and realized it needed to be charged, so I missed some of the action. But these give a little flavor of Thanksgiving at Martha and Heinz's home...always a treat.
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