Thanksgiving is our favorite holiday, period.
Who can’t warm-up to a holiday where we stuff food inside of food and celebrate? Even the bird gets fat before you consume it. This year we decided to put pig inside of pig as a light appetizer and drop a 13 pound bird into 4 gallons of peanut oil (for a crispy outside and tender loving goodness inside) as our main course accompanied by the usual suspects, mashers, sour-apple stuffing, cranberry sauce, and lots of friends. Big shout to all those who joined, we love having you at the Mesa (and Al you are always welcome to crash on the couch).
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Inspired by some great American BBQ’ers over at BBQ addicts, I had to build my own Bacon Explosion. Besides, how does one top the BFTE? Last year’s pulled pork followed by a Turducken by Dominic and Joao was a two-day event complete with Dr. Furia’s from scratch Sweet Potato (“This must be where pies go when they die”) Pie, Dr. Hofheinz’s supra-dense sour dough bread, and an engagement announcement from our favorite expatriates Markus and Katya (now helping McKinsey take over the world and educating all those Germans on American Real Estate).