Our Thanksgiving
Rach and I spent our first Thanksgiving away from family this year. We had Rachel’s friends from Toronto (Chris and Kaeliegh) come out to visit. We went out for Mexican food the first night (I wanted an enchilada) and went to some pub on St. Catherines (which has a bunch of pubs and restaurants on it).
Saturday we went out to explore Montreal with (this time with a camera) as 2 married couples. Our first stop was a huge church that is right by our apartment. From the outside of the city you can see it up on the mountain.
After touring around the church we headed downtown on the metro. What I find kind of funny is that there is a grocery store called “Metro”. It’s sign is huge, you would think it would be where you get on the metro, but no, just groceries.
Here is the real metro sign.
The metro stations look just like they do in movies and video games. Funny how that works out.
We walked around downtown, saw some drunk people, went to China town (I had one of those Chinese donuts, mmmmmm), and drove to the top of Mont Royal to the lookout over the city.
Sunday we spent most of the day preparing the chicken (we were too cheap to buy a turkey) for supper. It was the first time Rach and I have ever cooked this big of a meal. It turned out pretty good.
Rach wanted to make this cranberry sauce that my family makes every Thanksgiving and Christmas. All I remembered about the recipe was that it was 3 ingredients and you put 1 cup of each. I remembered 2 of the ingredients were cranberries (of course) and sugar. When I went into the kitchen to see Rach make this she had used 1 cup cranberries, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup of apples. Yes Mom/Grandma, apples. I had a good laugh over it. Rachel’s cranberry-apple sauce was actually pretty good. It tasted more like apples than anything but it was pretty awesome on the chicken.
By Sunday night we were all pretty tired so we just stayed at the apartment and watched The Inside Man (which was pretty good). That was pretty much our long weekend.
[tags]jeffrey,rachel,montreal,holiday[/tags]
chelle said,
October 9, 2006 @ 10:01 pm
Nice dishes. Nice work to Rach for actually cooking something that isn’t stir-fry, spagetti or a quesdilla.
I love how there’s a funny shadow on Rach’s chin making it look that she has a crazy huge chin/neck.
Way to be married couples, you make it look so easy!
Heather said,
October 9, 2006 @ 10:54 pm
Doesn’t it bite to celebrate Thanksgiving in the province where they don’t ? I’m glad you were able to to anyway. As well, it looks like you had fantastic fall weather for discovering the city.
Jeffrey Vanneste said,
October 10, 2006 @ 7:56 am
I talked to my Mom, apparently Rachel had the recipe right for the cranberry sauce. Cranberries, apples and sugar.
Heather, I was unaware that they didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving here.
Chris said,
October 11, 2006 @ 4:44 pm
Congratulations on leaving the apartment!