Thanksgiving Memories

I know that Thanksgiving was 2 weeks ago ( well here in Canada it was), but I thought that I would share some of the recipes that Stef and I used to make our Thanksgiving meal truly perfect. Our parents were away for the weekend and came back Monday afternoon to a beautifully prepared Turkey Dinner. We made candles out of miniature pumpkins that we bought the day before and had colour co-ordinated napkins and table menus. Unfortunately all the pictures look strange because of a failure on the side of the photographer ( Stef).

We started off with an appetizer of bread and crackers with a homemade spinach dip that I was afraid that my mom would not even try but ended up loving.

For the main part of the meal, we had turkey (duhhh...) with stuffing and cranberry sauce with a side of butternut squash. This made for a very colourful plate and everything was truly delicious and super healthy.

We followed that up with still warm apple crisp topped with butterscotch ice cream, sprinkled with walnuts and  drizzled with caramel sauce. Orgasmic.

So now for some recipes:

Zuza's Butternut squash

You will need:
-a butternut squash
-2 tablespoons of butter
-2 garlic cloves
-a teaspoon brown sugar
-salt

As you will probably notice, your squash has a hard rind and let me tell you, you don't want to eat it. Therefore,  we will boil said squash until the skin is easily penetrable with a fork. Now that the skin is soft, peel it off the squash and cut the squash in half. Take out all the seeds and gunk in the middle. Cut the squash into big chunks and put in a baking dish. Mince the garlic and spread it on top along with the chunks of butter and sprinkle the sugar and some salt. Put it in the oven for 25 minutes at 325 Celsius. When the squash is ready it should be soft.

ENJOY!