Traditional Akhtar Family Thanksgiving

2012 will go down in our family's history as the first year I have made a traditional Thanksgiving meal completely from scratch!  It is quite an exciting feeling as a wife and mom.  But, when you are away from home and you want that 'home-y' feeling, then it's time to put on the apron and get to cookin'!

Almost all of the recipes I found online, and amazingly enough all of them turned out good.  So if you are looking for recipes that have been tried and proven to work, here are most of the recipes.




Dinner Rolls

Creamed Corn *best scratch recipe*

Healthy Pumpkin Pie
                                   
Regular Pumpkin Pie (pictured)

**Did NOT use canned pumpkin! Find out more here.**

Green beans..
haven't quite figured these out yet...but I did find a great cream of chicken/mushroom recipe

Stove Top Stuffing 
*tasted just like the box ;-)

Garlic Mashed potatoes
(this is my own recipe that I can share later)

Sweet Potato Biscuits

Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

The only item I have yet to tackle is the Turkey!  Here in Thailand they range from $25-$85, so it was just more economical to have a roasted chicken.  Also, our fridge freezer is a little bigger than small so it just didn't make sense to try to "fit" it in there.



After giving thanks as a family and eating well together, we delivered a couple of plates of our traditional American food to our neighbors!  

It is such a fun and exciting feeling 
creating family memories from scratch.