On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
Happy Thanksgiving! Wow, it's already this time of the year! 2020 has brought ups and downs for us, but overall it's a good year for us. We're grateful for being healthy and no job loss despite the pandemic much of this country (and many other parts of the world) is experiencing. With the US being the #1 country in reported cases and deaths, it's almost always saddening to check the news because everyday we see and hear more about stories surrounding COVID-19. Over the years, we haven't had Thanksgiving dinner on actual Thanksgiving Day because Black Friday shopping usually began around dinner time on Thanksgiving Day so we had "Thanksgiving lunch" or "Thanksgiving Eve's dinner" instead. I think the last time we had our Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving Day was in 2009...? (if my memory is correct then oh man that's been way more than a decade! Back then our Black Friday shopping began around midnight on Thanksgiving Day and lasted through 6-7am on Friday)
感恩節快樂! 哇 已經是這個時候了! 2020帶給我們快樂也有些不太快樂的事, 但整體來說還是對我們好的一年. 我們很感恩在美國(其他地方也是)疫情時期還很健康也沒失業. 美國在全世界疫情裡病例數跟死亡數最高的情況下, 幾乎每次看新聞都很讓人感到難過因為每天都看到聽到更多的疫情相關故事. 過去許多年, 我們都沒有在感恩節當天吃感恩節晚餐, 因為"黑色星期五血拚"幾乎都在感恩節當天的晚餐時間開始, 所以我們變成吃"感恩節午餐"或"感恩節前夜晚餐." 我們上一次在感恩節當天吃感恩晚餐好像是2009年了....? (如果我的記憶沒錯的話 哇根本超過10幾年了 那時我們的"黑色星期五血拚"都是感恩節那晚的午夜12點之後到星期五早上6,7點之間)This year we had our Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving Day! We made 10 dishes (well, 9 "dishes" plus gravy 😁). Preparations began the night before. On Wednesday, W made his awesome French Onion Soup and I made my first-ever Pecan Pie! On Thursday, I woke up at 7 (to my huge surprise since I've been sleeping in A LOT lately) and began kitchen cleaning and more prepping. We began cooking at 11:30 and got everything to the table by 6pm.
今年 我們在感恩節當天吃感恩大餐囉! 我們做了10道菜 (或者說是9道菜+1個醬). 從前一晚就開始備料. 星期三的時候, W做了他的超好喝法式洋蔥湯, 我做了人生第一個胡桃派! 星期四那天, 我一大早7點就起床(很驚人 因為最近我都睡很晚) 然後就開始廚房清理跟更多的備料. 我們從早上11:30開始煮 然後所有食物在6點前上桌.
Our 2020 Thanksgiving Dinner menu / 我們的2020年感恩節菜單
(11/28 update: click on the name of the dish to see more /
11/28 更新: 點菜名可以看更多)
Slow Cooker Cranberry Stuffing (慢燉蔓越莓香料乾麵包)
Gravy (淋醬-淋在火雞跟馬鈴薯泥上)
Mashed Potatoes (馬鈴薯泥)
Zucchini, Squash, and Beet leaves Tian (悶燒櫛瓜, 夏南瓜, 甜菜葉)
French Onion Soup (法式洋蔥湯)
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| We started celebrating Thanksgiving by have brunch from McDonald's 😆 Also watched old seasons of Survivor while cooking. It's been so long since I last saw an episode of Survivor and we binged two whole seasons in the last 48 hours 😁 |
我們邊吃麥當勞早午餐邊展開了感恩節慶祝. 做菜的同時 則是邊做邊看舊的Survivor節目. 距離上次看Survivor是好久好久以前了, 這次我們在48小時內一次看完了兩季
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| This beautiful set of plates is a X'mas present from our friends Neha & Vikas last year. I finally took them out of the original package and used them for the first time for Turkey day! 這個很美的盤組 是我們的兩個朋友去年送的聖誕節禮物. 我終於把他們從原裝包裝拆出來 第一次的使用就獻給感恩節! |
There's something about being inside a home with an aroma of fresh baked goods and homemade food. I also just love seeing our table being filled with food 💛 We started planning out the menu two weeks ago, ordered everything that we needed online and did curbside pickup & Fresh delivery with Prime (except the single-use baking pan for the turkey which we picked up in-store at a local Albertson's store). Ordered based on price & availability. I wanted a small turkey (ordered for 8 -12lbs) but got an email just before pickup that said they were out so...a 20lbs turkey came instead!! 20lbs! We're gonna be eating turkey for at least a week. Altogether, around $45 of ingredients total for this big meal 👩👨 We cooked with a mindset that we won't be cooking again for the remainder of the week 😄😄😄
其實阿, 當空氣中有新鮮出爐的烘培點心跟自己動手做的料理的香味時, 那是種說不出的喜愛感. 我超愛看到自家餐桌上擺滿食物的畫面! 我們是兩個星期前開始準備這次感恩節的菜單. 網路上訂了各種需要的食材 然後開車到店家門口領菜 也有些食材直接用Amazon宅配到家, 看哪裡便宜又有貨就訂哪裡. 我本來是想要一隻小火雞(訂購時選了8-12磅)結果領貨前收到email 說小火雞沒了...領貨時來了一隻20磅的火雞!! 20磅耶! 我們要連著一整個星期都吃火雞了. 全部算算 這頓感恩大餐的食材備料差不多花了$45來準備. 我們在煮的時候就決定這些做完這星期都不會再煮了😄😄😄
W picked an inner part of turkey meat that was cooked, unseasoned, and I shredded them for three little furry ones so they got to be a part of this special dinner too. They finished theirs in a jiffy!
W挑了煮熟的沒醃料的火雞肉 我撥成絲 給三隻毛頭們 讓他們也一起慶祝感恩節. 他們吃的超快馬上就吃光光!
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| Thanks to modern technology and numerous bloggers that shared so many recipes online. I saved many on Pinterest. Read many and used some and tweaked some. Later I'll share what I did and share their links so more people can try these too! 感謝現代科技也謝謝很多部落客的食譜分享. 用Pinterest存了很多. 讀了很多 用了一些也改了一些. 之後我會分享也會提供原食譜連結讓更多人也能試試! Happy Thanksgiving! 感恩節快樂! |
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