Thanksgiving 2012

Due to our collective dislike of most traditional Thanksgiving foods, Adam and I choose a different country each year and prepare a meal from that country. This year we chose Greek. It was fun making a few items I had never made before, but I would have liked to have researched the recipes more. We finally moved into our new place the day before Thanksgiving, so between having to rush to find stores that carried the ingredients and not having all my kitchen stuff available, it could have been better. Overall, I thought the food tasted pretty good and Adam loved it.

For the main course, I made chicken kebab and souvlaki gyros with tzatziki sauce. I'll have to add less dill to the tzatziki sauce next time, but the gyros were pretty delicious.

The sides were spanikopita (spinach and feta cheese pie), which was decent, considering the fact that I forgot to add the feta to the spinach until it was too late,

dolmas (seasoned rice wrapped in grape leaves and steamed) that were delicious, despite their appearance in the photo,

                                 and horiatiki salata (Greek tomato salad), which was pretty good.

Overall, Adam and I both agree that this Thanksgiving meal was a success, and I now have a couple new recipes that we both like.