November 25, 2004 - Thanksgiving

© 2004 by John Varley; all rights reserved

 

We were going to celebrate Thanksgiving with Mom and Kerry, but that fell through when we found out there wasn’t a motel room available within about 30 miles. We’d waited too long, forgetting this is a tourist destination even this late in the year.

But we decided to have a big feast, for the first time in years. That’s not easy in a tiny RV kitchen where the oven doesn’t work, but what the heck. Our menu was going to be fairly radical, anyway. For one thing, no turkey. No poultry of any kind, really. This menu is much too heavy to fly.

When it was done, all set out there on the table, the result was so pretty that Lee took some pictures. As you can see, it was a little heavy on the desserts and side dishes. But in the end, there was something for everyone.

 

Utensils
 

 

   

And Sandpaper Napkins

 

Starters

Stoneground Bread
Granite Crackers
Butterite
Salt & Granulated Anthracite

Rockotta Cheese


Soups and Salads

Spelunker Salad with Rockefort
or Shale Oil Dressing

Slurry or Primordial Soup


Entrees

Pork Carlsbad
Rock Lobster or Rock Cod
Marbled Beef


Side Dishes

Asparagus Stalactites
Carrotite in Amber Sauce
Cranberries Amethyst
Potatoes Techtonique
Cauliflower Petrifique
Pea gravel with Pearl Onions
Fried Eggs Adamantine
Grits


Fruits

Freestone Peaches and Plums
Pomegranites
Pitted Olivines
Ruby Grapefruit
Pommes de Terre

 

Desserts

Pyroclastic Fudge
Key Limestone Pyrite
Yellowcake de Uranio
Chocolate Pebbles
Puddingstone
Chalcedony Chip Cookies
Assorted Hard (very hard) Candies
Rocky Road Gneiss Cream
Fruitcake

Beverages

Chalkolate Milk
Flaming Brimstone
Mineral Water
Hard Cider
Rolling Rock Beer
Thundereggnog


Afterwards ...

Milk of Magnesium
Sodium Bicarbonate
Flintstones Vitamin
 

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