This past weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving, my second most favourite time of the year! Every year during the duration of the weekend the town I live in holds a small Thanksgiving fair. It has become a tradition between myself and my best friends to head on over for an afternoon of unhealthy food options and feeding some friendly goats. This year, the weather was really on our side - it was a perfectly sunny day and quite warm, especially for October. There were quite a lot of food options, including a barbecue stand and your usual deep-fried fair food, but I decided to be healthy and get a really delicious falafel pita (and get a bit jealous when my friends ate funnel cakes and french fries)! After eating we headed over to the petting zoo and as you can see the goats really took a liking to me. At one point I had three goats trying to climb on me to get a part of the ice cream cone I was holding! There were also some baby pigs there that were so cute! I didn't manage to get any decent photos of them unfortunately, waaaaah. When it was time to leave I quickly grabbed myself a big stick of cotton candy - my favourite part of the fair!
Before heading off to work on Sunday I spent the morning doing lots of baking for our Thanksgiving dinner the following day. With a bit of help from one of my sisters I managed to bake five pies! Four pumpkin (I know, I know...) and one beautiful (if I do say so myself) apple pie! They were all incredibly delicious and I wish I had some leftovers to eat right now... at eleven thirty at night. For the pie crust I used this recipe and tripled it. For the pumpkin pie I tripled this recipe and this recipe for the apple pie using Gala apples. I didn't take any photos during our actual Thanksgiving celebrations, I was much too busy stuffing my face with mashed potatoes and slices of pie topped with whipped cream. Oops!
To my Canadian readers and those who celebrated, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with lots of delicious food! Thanks for reading! xo
WHY DID YOU MAKE SO MANY PIES?! Did you freeze some for later?
ReplyDeleteI also made a pumpkin pie and the recipe I used called for crushed ginger cookies (the thin kind you can get at Ikea!) mixed with butter and crushed pecans between the crust and the pumpkin filling, it was a really nice touch!
Monika!!!!!!!!!! ALL THE PIES WERE EATEN! All of them!!!! And that sounds sooooo good! I'll have to try that out!!!
DeleteThat pie looks heavenly.
ReplyDeleteIt was sooo delicious!
DeleteOh, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving here in my country (Belgium). But from all the stories and all the pictures I see, I know it must be an incredible time! It seems like you had a lot of fun on the fair. And I must say: your hair looks gorgeous! The pies look delicious, Emily!
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Thank you so much! It really is such a great time of year! x
DeleteSuch lovely pictures, we don't celebrate thanksgiving in England but I wish we did! :)
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ohhh man, all that food - my mouth is watering! beautiful pics emily! xx n
ReplyDeleteGreat photos and I love your hair colour!
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What beautiful photos! Your pies look incredible too. I can't believe I've never made or eaten pumpkin pie - I must rectify this asap as your looks divine x
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