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!

Statement of Purpose

Yes, I am supposed to be writing a paper about Jurgen Habermas, some philosopher I have never heard of, but then I had a thought. If this dude was not 90-something, and was my age, would he be still using books to document his ideas? Maybe would he be one of those people that spend their time on philosophical blogs where they all argue nonsense (no offense intended Mr. Habermas). That is when I realized that I should make one with ideas that aren't philosophical! I would consider myself a girl of many different interests and experiences that I could share with people that are looking for something lighter to read. And even if absolutely no one reads it, at least I will have a bit of a more productive method of procrastination. 

I keep on thinking of all the directions that this blog is going to go and let me tell you; it's going to be a disaster.

A friend of mine told me that I don't think in a straight line. My thoughts explode and criss-cross and jump from one idea to the next. So please excuse the random topics, and the varied themes. I am thinking that this is going to be a project to document personal growth and accumulation of knowledge, whether relevant to my education or not.

Anticipated topics include:

-Emergency Management

-Urban Planning

-Fashion

-Food

-Health

-Polish-ness

-Relationships

-Travel

-Student Life

-Whatever comes to this crazy mind!