Thanksgiving

When we lived in Jackson and Juliana had first become a vegetarian we didn't have anywhere to go for Thanksgiving and we weren't going to have turkey, so we came up with the idea of having Indian food for Thanksgiving: there are lots of different dishes, it takes more time than an everynight dinner and has lots of vegetarian possibilities. Since we moved to California we've been having Thanksgiving at Juliana's mom's house in Sonoma, but this year Juliana agreed to work at the UC Davis Veterinary Clinic on Thanksgiving Day, so once again we had Indian Thanksgiving. Here's what we had:

Curried pistachios and cashews as an amuse-guele
Carrot and cashew salad
Spinach and eggplant curry
Brussels sporouts with coconut
Spicy chick peas
Cranberry chutney
Cucumber in yougurt
Naan and papadam that I bought at a store and reheated
Cardamon and pistachio ice cream


Thanksgiving has also occasioned memory of the year, it might have been 1987, when Tracy was living with Charlotte in the building with the feral cats in the alley. I took the train down from Boston and arrived at about 1:00 in the morning Thanksgiving Day. Tracy met me at Penn Station, which is right across the street from Macy's, where they were clearing the streets. The next morning when I woke up Tracy was watching the parade on TV and she said, see, that's where we were yesterday. And there it was, on TV.