Christmas/New Year's Dinner
We got together with the de Jongs for a Christmas dinner, which happened to be on New Year's Eve, so it ended up as a celebration of both holidays together! Anthony and I bought this turkey for the meal and...prepared it, then Anne cooked it.
The highlight of buying the turkey, for me, was when we walked out of the market and a random passerby said "Are you selling it? and another person responded on our behalf "No, they're eating it - it's New Year's"!
Something unique about this turkey was the eggs we found inside her. We sort of wished we had kept her and had her lay eggs so we could have baby turkeys!
But it was a very tasty turkey. And the rest of the meal was great as well.
(Look dad, see who's carving the turkey?)
It was like our traditional Thanksgiving dinners - with turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, and carrots from our garden.
And for dessert, we had the famous Ladenburger peanut bars! Conveniently, peanuts are something that is abundant in Uganda. I'll admit I had no sour cream or butter, so I replaced them with milk and margarine, respectively, and they still tasted great!
Peanut Bars:
2 eggs
2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
2 Tbs. butter melted in 1 cup boiling hot milk
2 cups flour mixed with 2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 sticks butter
1 Tbs. sour cream
vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
powdered sugar
chopped peanuts
Cake: Grease and flour 9”x13” pan. Beat the eggs about 5 minutes. Beat in the sugar, salt, and vanilla. Beat in the butter melted in the milk, and then the flour mixed with baking powder. Bake at 350°F for 25-30 minutes. Let cool, cut into about 39 pieces. Frost on all sides with frosting made from the 1 1/2 sticks butter, sour cream, vanilla, salt, and powdered sugar. Coat with chopped peanuts.
...And since I think birds are cool, I'm going to put a random bird picture on this post about food. This is a Black and White Casqued Hornbill which was right outside our house. Anne sneakily took the picture from inside her porch (they tend to fly away immediately if they see people coming close).
The highlight of buying the turkey, for me, was when we walked out of the market and a random passerby said "Are you selling it? and another person responded on our behalf "No, they're eating it - it's New Year's"!
Something unique about this turkey was the eggs we found inside her. We sort of wished we had kept her and had her lay eggs so we could have baby turkeys!
But it was a very tasty turkey. And the rest of the meal was great as well.
(Look dad, see who's carving the turkey?)
It was like our traditional Thanksgiving dinners - with turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, and carrots from our garden.
And for dessert, we had the famous Ladenburger peanut bars! Conveniently, peanuts are something that is abundant in Uganda. I'll admit I had no sour cream or butter, so I replaced them with milk and margarine, respectively, and they still tasted great!
Peanut Bars:
2 eggs
2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
2 Tbs. butter melted in 1 cup boiling hot milk
2 cups flour mixed with 2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 sticks butter
1 Tbs. sour cream
vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
powdered sugar
chopped peanuts
Cake: Grease and flour 9”x13” pan. Beat the eggs about 5 minutes. Beat in the sugar, salt, and vanilla. Beat in the butter melted in the milk, and then the flour mixed with baking powder. Bake at 350°F for 25-30 minutes. Let cool, cut into about 39 pieces. Frost on all sides with frosting made from the 1 1/2 sticks butter, sour cream, vanilla, salt, and powdered sugar. Coat with chopped peanuts.
...And since I think birds are cool, I'm going to put a random bird picture on this post about food. This is a Black and White Casqued Hornbill which was right outside our house. Anne sneakily took the picture from inside her porch (they tend to fly away immediately if they see people coming close).
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