Filipino Thanksgiving Dinner in the USA

Our simple Thanksgiving Dinner.  Most were prepared by 3rd-born, 21 year old daughter.  Such a hard worker.  So proud of her!

Almonds, candied pecans, wasabi peas

Traditional turkey

Spicy Chicken & Mushroom Soup

for soup: lime, green onion, cilantro

Spring Rolls with shrimp + peanut butter sauce

sweet potatoes with pecans/marshmellow

Asparagus with parmesan cheese

freshly-baked bread

Muffins and Cookies

for dipping in chocolate

fruit salad in trifle bowl

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Captured in Pencil ??

Daughter ♥ BF

Easy like Sunday morning

...on a Saturday.  I had been on the PC,  got up to return to my room, and this was the scene that greeted me.  Jillian pounding on the piano playing Beethoven precluded conversation, and forced the three on the sofa to focus on their lap top computers.  Hopefully, it was to complete schoolwork, and not just to check on Facebook.  Better still if they weren't just "talking" amongst themselves.

Just had to take a picture for posterity's sake.