Thanksgiving Report 2 of 3, 2008
Thanksgiving 1 of 3, Thanksgiving 3 of 3

Introduction:
This year for Thanksgiving we invited at first, four people but that quickly expaned to six. Naturally it wasn't very long before we added two more for a total of ten people. That's when we realized that we couldn't actually seat ten people in our apartment, so we made a request to two of our friends and Thanksgiving guests, who own Little Wing Coffee to relocate. Tomoko began planning Thanksgiving a month in advanced, two weeks prior I practiced our turkey recipe on a chicken and made an apple pie, all in preperation for the best holiday ever. On the weekend of the actual event, thanks to Tomoko's hard work and preparation everything was ready to go as planned.

Cooking:
Ryan came down on Friday and we made pies and appetizers on Saturday then did some shopping. Sunday we started cooking at 8:00am and didn't stop until 7:00pm when we loaded up the car and moved everything to Little Wing. The complete menu for the day was as follows:

Thanksgiving 2008 Menu
Appetizers Main Dishes Dessert Beverages
Liver Paste Turkey Matt's Delicious Life Altering Apple Pie of Heavenly Flavor, so Delicious it's Capable of Taking the Virginity of Young Beautiful Women 6 Red Wines
Black Olive Paste Stuffing Ryan's Disgusting Bowl of Poisonous Rotten Apples Disguised as a Pie. 2 White Wines
Hummus Sweet Potatoes Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

2 Sparkling Wines

Pepurika Apple Sauce   Coffee
Basil Paste Pie cake Renzu Beans   Tea
Assorted Olives Potato Purre    
Bread      
Bulusuketa      

To make the turkey properly we started cooking at 11:00am sharp and didn't finish until 3:30pm. However the key to creating such a delicious turkey was in the basting process which occured every ten minutes on the dot. This enables the turkey to be cooked from the top down since the hot juices attack the turkey from above. We took the liberty to recored the basting process so that we could share those events with you exactly they way they happened all 25 times we basted the turkey.

The Champagne Saber:
Tomoko's friend from Tokyo, Akemi came down and she brought her champagne saber or as I like to refer to it, the Katana of Doom. Using the Katana of Doom to open bottles of champagne is by far the most kick ass way to open anything and such design concepts should absolutely be applied to everything. We opened two bottles via the Doom Katana and recorded both of them, see the video below. The first bottle is actually sparkling wine from Italy and things don't go quite as planned. It's interesting to note though that actually most "champagne" is technically sparkling wine. Though the creation process is the same, in order to officially be recognized as champagne, the bottle must be from champagne, France. So technically there is no champagne from California, Italy, Spain or any other country for that matter, since by definition obviously a bottle of sparkling wine from Califorinia is not from champagne, France. In any case the second bottle performs as intended and those two experiences can be seen in the video below.

Just so you know, the first bottle failed to open properly because when you Doom Katana a bottle of champagne it is (apparently) absolutely vital that you slice along the seam of the bottle. Most bottles of champagne have said "seam" but this particular bottle did not. It was the first time to see a bottle of sparkling wine without a seam so I assumed that you could Doom Katana the bottle in any old place. Turns out you can't. Lesson Learned, becareful what you Doom Katana.

The First International All Japan World Wide Thanksgiving Apple Pie Competition 2008:
Contrary to the complexities of the title, this event is quite straight forward to understand. On Saturday, the day before Thanksgiving, Ryan and I each made an Apple Pie. Well actually I made an apple pie, I'm still not sure what Ryan made. Nevertheless naturally a lot of trash talk ensued and so there was no other choice than to make the First International All Japan World Wide Thanksgiving Apple Pie Competition 2008. The competition was between Ryan's Poisonous blob of Rotten Apples and E.Coli versus my delicious morsel of ecstacy which many are convinced is a small piece of heaven which has fallen to Earth. The judges were unaware who the chef of the pies were but 6 out of 7 people guessed correctly who the pie's creator was. The competition had two fields, taste and appearance. The final scores were as follows

  Ryan Matt
Taste
4
3
Appearance
3
4
Total
7
7

Note: the legitimacy of the results is being investigated as well as the possibility of unethical behavior by Mr. Spring which could range anywhere from blackmail and bribery to death threats.

All in all Thanksgiving 2008 was pretty damn good and I'm quite certain everyone enjoyed. Ryan noted that it was one of the greatest Thanksgivings he's ever had and the same goes for me. We all had friends, good food, fun times and interesting conversation, the four things that the holidays should be about. Making Thanksgiving happen was long hard and tiring but it was definately worth it and I wouldn't have changed a single thing about it. Thanks to everyone that came and helped out and thanks to you for reading. I hope you all have as good a holiday season as I have had already. Cheers and enjoy.

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